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The importance of business skills

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2007-04-27 07:23:30 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...importance of perimeter security, endpoint security, reasonable controls inside and outside to address various threats. Do a hundred good things and one bad thing, you will be remembered for that one bad thing. That is the reality of life and that holds true for infromation security. Typically as you advance in your career you are paid little...
 
Tags: information security professionals, information security, bad, handle bad events, business, predictprevent bad events, track information security, skills, institute control measures
 
 
 
 
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The importance of key management

2008-08-22 12:56:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...importance of managing those keys. This seems to be the message from Jerome Wendt I think there are two sides to the story here - while I agree that managing keys is important, I think this is something users SHOULD NOT be concerned about. This is something the vendors should be focused on solving and not leave it to end users to stumble...
 
Tags: key management, implementation variances, users, product level, keys, equal importance, data protection, jerome wendt, stumble
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...importance of having a trustworthy election process. There have been some well chronicled examples of elections with extremely close results, where the winners margin of victory was perhaps smaller than the election systems margin of error. The term Hanging Chads , from the 2000 U.S Presidential election , is now part of the American...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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The power of communication.

2008-06-13 17:24:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...importance of communicating in a way that ensures we are understood. When I was working for the United Nations in different countries around the world, I would often be told by other UN staff that they were surprised that they could actually understand what I was saying. Apparently, they had met other Irish and could only understand a few...
 
Tags: fast irish speech, irish, irish referendum, lisbon treaty, irish slang words, importance, extreme importance, words, ireland
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...importance this year! This is where the rubber meets the road and fish start to swim upstream :-) - this prediction started from me reading Richard's piece " NAC is Fighting the Last War " which struck me like a Strength 15 Lighting Bolt. Indeed, narrowly defined NAC largely targets worm infections (and will thus lose relevance) while broadly...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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Stockport Primary Care Trust flash drive goes missing

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2008-01-21 09:44:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...importance of vigilance in carrying/sending personalised data The loss of the data has had no adverse impact on the services provided by Stockport PCT and GPs. The data loss was reported centrally at the time of the loss and again on the recent NHS wide audit of data losses I want to apologise personally for any inconvenience and distress...
 
Tags: senstive personal information, personal information, information, medical information, information security matters, information security, information security management, information line, management
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...importance of documentation such as business risk acceptance form; this will help to cover your rear during security incidents. Make sure to get a business risk acceptance form signed by the business owner. An example is a business owner signs a business risk acceptance form if there is no budget to mitigate the vulnerability Scenario 2: The...
 
Tags: incident, security incident, incident playbook, incident management plan, earthquake incident, sound incident, security incidents, nasty security incidents, plan
 
 
 
 
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Maslow's heirarchy of security posture?

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2007-07-08 17:22:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...importance of security of their customers' data, belong to this category. There are companies that have realized the importance of security since customers have started demanding security in their products [Why would you buy a book from a small online book vendor vs. Amazon? A small online vendor has to work harder to convince customers about...
 
Tags: security posture, basic security posture, security, basic security, security practices, handle security incidents, security exists, security components, security program
 
 
 
 
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Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing

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2008-03-27 21:12:29 by HASH0x8b4fa7c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...importance of the sites has increased, Google is to what looks like filtering the search results despite that the malicious parties may have successfully injected the IFRAMEs already, thus trying to undermine the campaign, new malware and fake codecs are introduced under new domain names, and a couple of newly introduced domains within the...
 
Tags: massive, single massive seo, profile sites, profile sites iframe, attack, seo, malware, malware attack, massive blackhat seo