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Up Scope

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...scope of the magazine is being expanded to incorporate reliability and dependability concerns and its readership will include members of the IEEE Reliability Society. This expansion is appropriate because the requirements for a system to be reliable, safe, secure (i.e. its dependability or trustworthiness attributes) often need to be...
 
Tags: reliability, ieee reliability society, dependability, dependability concerns, scope, trustworthiness attributes, system, secure, include
 
 
 
 
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More on Georgias FISMA Reporting

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2008-05-19 22:02:29 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...scope creep of Government security, shall we? Fact of the matter is, its going to happen, and youll get eventually get caught up in FISMA if youre one of the following State and local government Government contractor Telco Government service provider COTS software vendor Utilities who own Critical Infrastructure Why do I say this? Mainly...
 
Tags: government, government security, federal government, government contractor, government service provider, data, exchange data, fisma, transfer data
 
 
 
 
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Security Consultant Hacks: Size Matters

2007-12-20 05:16:07 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...scope creep on them, all within reason of course. Dont forget these people have to eat and they might not have another gig lined up after yours Disadvantages : Scheduling and resources. Small shops can easily get stretched. They can generally only handle 1 or 2 engagements at the same time. If they are a lifestyle shop they like to take long...
 
Tags: security consultant, security consultant hacks, security, web application security, security consultants, consultants, grumpy security guy, medium shops, employ
 
 
 
 
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On trial - role of the CISO

2008-04-26 16:32:46 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...scope of Information Security. My own role encompasses all aspects of managing risks to data and is, I'm pleased to report, far more respected than the part I played at the mock trial. But I've often had to push hard to put security on the agenda and I think some of the more traditionaly minded individuals in the organisation were taken aback...
 
Tags: role, ciso, role focuses, role encompasses, impotent ciso, security, information security, mock trial, view
 
 
 
 
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Security Function as a Business Enabler

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2008-06-27 20:50:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...scope, draw a circle around the units that need to be compliant, then come up with a strategy to make it compliant by formulating your objective - derived from the business objective of why the business gave you money Any security implementation effort should have a well defined focus (scope), business objective and strategy to bind the...
 
Tags: security, view security organization, security organization, business, information security function, organization, information security, cohesive security strategy, strategy
 
 
 
 
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Misconceptions about outsourcing security

2007-12-13 14:05:54 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...scope, duration, and business risk of an outsourcing deal dwarf most hardware or software procurement contracts. Handing over a critical business process or technology to a third party changes the risk profile of the firm. You have to look beyond the technical capabilities while evaluating vendors. Think of it more like a partnership where...
 
Tags: security processes, establish security processes, security, processes, security controls, security managers cost, cost, security operations, security services
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...scope of the problem has recently been somewhat misreported to suggest that one in 10 websites are potentially malicious. To clarify, a sample-based analysis puts the fraction of malicious pages at roughly 0.1% . The analysis described in our paper covers billions of URLs. Using targeted feature extraction and classification, we select a...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #58

2007-04-16 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...scope, and designed to ensure the security of consumer credit card data throughout the information lifecycle. Recently, an RSA survey asked businesses for opinions on issues related to PCI DSS including rates of compliance, perceptions of the standard, and motivations and challenges in meeting the PCI DSS requirements and we discuss the...
 
Tags: pci dss, pci dss requirements, rsas dave howell, pci solutions, weeks podcast, information lifecycle, rsa survey, security, issues
 
 
 
 
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Security World: Eight security New Years resolutions for network managers

2007-12-18 12:36:48 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
2008 is expected to continue the 2007 trend of increasing size, scope, and concentration of attacks on computer networks nationwide. Attacks are increasingly more targeted as malware, worms, and other
 
Tags: computer networks nationwide, attacks, worms, concentration, malware, continue, increasingly, scope, trend
 
 
 
 
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Larry Sutos Paper Drama

2008-01-02 14:53:30 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...scope of what I care about So let me re-iterate because I think people really took this whole thing and blew it way way out of proportion. The part of Larry Sutos paper that I thought was interesting was the concept of looking at how well a spider can crawl a site. He may not have done a great job setting up the test sites, you may question...
 
Tags: paper, larry sutos paper, scanners, commercial scanners, test environment, environment, test, time, people