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The Impact of Dans DNS Debacle on Internet Risk

2008-07-30 08:11:30 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...impact on risk First, it is worth noting that this bug is more properly classified as a new attack technique invented by Dan. It combines two vulnerabilities that have been well-known for some time the ability to guess non-random transaction IDs and the use of Additional RRs to insert new entries into the DNS cache. A fix against either of...
 
Tags: dns servers, servers, impact, dns, dns servers cache, risk impact revolves, major dns vendors, risk, major dns vulnerability
 
 
 
 
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The Impact of Dan???s DNS Debacle on Internet Risk

2008-07-30 08:11:30 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...impact on risk First, it is worth noting that this ???bug??? is more properly classified as a new attack technique invented by Dan. It combines two vulnerabilities that have been well-known for some time ??? the ability to guess non-random transaction IDs and the use of Additional RRs to insert new entries into the DNS cache. A fix against...
 
Tags: dns, impact, major dns vendors, risk impact revolves, dns servers, servers, risk, dns server implementations, major dns
 
 
 
 
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SANS Contributes To IMPACT

2008-05-21 23:02:31 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...IMPACT. Its an interenational group for fighting cyber computer crime, terrorism and things that go bump in the night From GCN The SANS Institute has announced a $1 million contribution to the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (IMPACT) and started sharing technical information with the organization The two groups...
 
Tags: sans, cybersecurity, cybersecurity specialists, cyber, improve cybersecurity, cyber defenses, sans plan, impact, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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What impact will increased security budgets have on federal information security systems?

2008-02-26 10:44:08 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...impact they will have on federal information security systems As noted, the DOT alone accounted for this lions share of this years increases, but that increase is not in any way explicitly related to the relative security posture of DOTs IT environment. It takes a search through the esoterica of DOTs budget line items to identify what...
 
Tags: federal, iss lob, federal iss lob, current federal security, assess federal security, mature federal strategy, federal security, iss lob portends, lob
 
 
 
 
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Study: Digital universe and its impact bigger than we thought

2008-03-11 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
By 2011, there will be 1,800 exabytes of electronic data in existance or 1.8 zettabytes (an exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes). In fact, the number of bits stored already exceeds the estimated number of stars in the universe, according to a new study by IDC. The creation of that data will have far reaching impact on corporations and their...
 
Tags: electronic data, data, billion gigabytes, study, universe, impact, exceeds, exabyte, existance
 
 
 
 
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Impact Factory

2008-05-14 11:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Impact Factory on their excellent presentation skills course. The course was a revelation: rather than being a critique of any bad habits, the course focuses on existing strengths and provides a number of tools for making best use of them. I know that the next time I stand up in front of an audience I'll be able to talk with a lot more...
 
Tags: presentation skills, excellent presentation skills, impact factory, information security program, time, audience, doug osbourne, valuable asset, bad habits
 
 
 
 
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Q&A with Doug McClure: What Makes BSM Successful?

2008-07-15 19:02:39 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...impact an outage or event from it had on the business services or applications, etc One key component of this SMDB was establishing the relationships of real and synthetic user and transaction monitoring steps to associated servers and applications. This is a significant gap area in many tools and vendor CMDBs Clients who have instituted...
 
Tags: management, service management database, management tools, service management mentality, business service management, business service, business service impact, mission services management, database
 
 
 
 
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Is Risk-Based Security Really Possible?

2007-07-26 20:42:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...Impact of the event in $$) * (Number of times in a year the event will happen So, you calculate your ALE and that's the maximum you should spend to mitigate that risk If the real world was that simple, we'd all use ALE to plan our security strategies. But ALE is fundamentally wrong for for information security. I'll concede that ALE can be...
 
Tags: security, information security, information security decisions, security management, security breach, breach, risk, wrong, ale hopelessly wrong
 
 
 
 
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Again On Breaches and Stock Price

2008-03-12 00:34:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...impact of a data breach on your stock price. That theory is completely disproved by TJX Enraged? Think he is pushing it too far? Being illogical? Me too :-) I don't think TJX example just goes and "disproves" it; we don't really know how it works with breaches and stock prices (some say 4-8% down, some say none, some say 'major impact',...
 
Tags: security, security practices, stock price, data breach, impact, anyones security budget, potential impact, breach, breach impact assessment