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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 3]

2007-09-21 09:27:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Proactive Please first read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 1 Please first read the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 2 This is based on Stephen Covey's book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and in this post we look at how being proactive can help raise the general security of an...
 
Tags: information security risk, information, financial information, security, information security, effective, business, person business, people
 
 
 
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...proactive steps to keep you informed Evan] I don't like the word "proactive" when using it in reference to a reaction. The notification is a reaction to a lack of proactivity. You dig Those who may have been potentially affected by this compromise will receive a notification letter The data was held on a Web application server that allowed...
 
Tags: tricare, information, personal information, code review, by-line code review, information security, tricare beneficiaries, beneficiaries, breach
 
 
 
 
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 4]

2007-10-09 13:38:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...proactive and making sure that you define your environment and how you will handle Information Security In the past Information Security was a matter of having whatever the box of the day was - firewall, anti-virus, IDS, etc etc. It was also having audits done and responding to their negative findings. And it was about hopefully detecting...
 
Tags: handle information security, information, past information security, voila- policy documents, policy, information security, policy documents, habits, plan
 
 
 
 
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SCSU web server becomes spam server and exposes personal information

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2008-05-02 11:12:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...proactive steps, along with a full security review of the university's Web server Evan] What is proactive in a response The University has undertaken a review of all files containing personal information on its Web server and there is no evidence to date that any of them have been compromised Evan] The University should undertake a review of...
 
Tags: personal information, information, evan personal information, web server, personal information storage, university, university system, personal, university immediately
 
 
 
 
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Axcess Financial reports stolen laptop to New Hampshire AG

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2008-05-28 11:45:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...proactive out of abundance of caution Evan] A display of proactive abundance of caution would be to encrypt laptops and apply tight controls around what information is allowed to be stored on them (among other things Because there is a possibility that your personal information could have been subject to unauthorized disclosure, we have...
 
Tags: axcess, axcess financial, axcess financial services, breach description, breach, worst breach notifications, information, personal information, hampshire
 
 
 
 
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Adaptive security from the Gartner IT Security Summit

2008-06-09 20:25:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...proactive approaches to security and how we could learn from the adaptive mechanisms of a biological system. Very interesting Most of it made sense - however, it seemed hard to see how we could build adaptive/proactive security systems just yet. We are still figuring out security based on signatures and we cant build them fast enough -...
 
Tags: security, security summit, security systems, security based, model based security, adaptive, security view, adaptive mechanisms, neil macdonald keynote
 
 
 
 
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Network skill level gap is growing, but growth opportunities abound!

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2008-08-25 21:06:07 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...proactive and intuitive solutions to aggregate instrumentation from all Data Center tools, including more work around VOIP, video streaming, and collaboration so that we can ease this transition. If ITOM solutions become more proactive across the typical Cisco infrastructure that is commonly installed in the Data Center, we can free up some...
 
Tags: skills, foundation skills, network, skills gap, skills shortage, intuitive solutions, solutions, traditional network, recent idc report
 
 
 
 
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Outsourcing Infrastructure Management

2008-10-17 16:30:15 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...proactive by setting up intelligent alarms and thresholds that warn of problems before they become showstoppers and reacting at a speed in this increasingly virtual world that simply is not possible for human manual interaction But infrastructure management doesnt happen in a vacuum and you can bet when something goes wrong which affects some...
 
Tags: management, infrastructure management, trend infrastructure management, infrastructure management tools, human manual interaction, bob smith, reach bob smith, interaction, tools
 
 
 
 
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A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Thirteen

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2008-11-12 16:57:26 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...proactive threat intell? A reactive threat intell is assessing a campaign, individual, a group of individuals, how are they related to one another, and what have they been doing in the past, based exclusively on a lead that's been found within the past couple of hours Try the very latest rogue security domains courtesy of three domainers (...
 
Tags: security software, software, fake security software, popular software, diverse portfolio, wordpress, wordpress accounts, proactive threat intell, net