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Channel Checklist: Windows Vista security

2008-07-24 11:23:49 by Brien M. Posey in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
While more secure than XP, Windows Vista still has security vulnerabilities. Learn how to address these vulnerabilities by securing Windows Vista upon deployment
 
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...security By Dan Swanson A Reader Asks: Who is responsible for information security The Auditor Responds: In short, the board of directors, management (of both staff and business lines), and internal audit functions all have significant roles in auditing information security. The big question for many companies is how these stakeholders should...
 
 
 
 
 
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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
...security posture of a company. Each posture is determined by the line of business [type of industry] and the size of business [start-up or mid-size or large publicly traded 1. Don't Care for Security - These are early stage companies that don't have time for security since they are busy getting their product out. There are mid-size to large...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they're different. You can feel secure even though you're not, and you can be secure even though you don't feel it. There are two different concepts mapped onto the same word -- the English language isn't working very well for us here -- and it can be hard to know which one we're talking about when...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they're different. You can feel secure even though you're not, and you can be secure even though you don't feel it. There are two different concepts mapped onto the same word -- the English language isn't working very well for us here -- and it can be hard to know which one we're talking about when...
 
 
 
 
 
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10 Myths About Life As An IT Security Professional

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2008-04-25 23:08:41 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
...security fascinating, you may be considering a career as an IT Security Professional. To help you decide, here are 10 myths about life as an IT Security Professional IT Security is basically about Passwords and Anti-virus . This is completely untrue. You may hear this from people that dont get paid to do security, but think they know all...
 
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...security tools at all, Cloud Computing may impact the way you calculate your IT security budgets. Assessing The Cost of Runtime Security Security costs can be overt or hidden budget items spread across infrastructure, security, compliance, midrange the runtime security costs of security tools that execute on the systems How many organisations...
 
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Security - The Beginning of the End or The End of the Beginning

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2008-05-29 15:26:12 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...security, its hard to be optimistic where things are going wrt Web 2.0 security. Granted when Web 1.0 was built out did not have the ability to use static analysis to find vulnerabilities, we didn't have good identity standards and so on. So are we at a new a beginning where new tools and mechanisms will save our bacon? Or will Web 2.0 herald...
 
 
 
 
 
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Taming of the Information Security

2008-07-09 06:33:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...security grows up to become an unmanageable complex beast. In some cases, this happens consciously where information security goes out of control, but in other cases this happens unconsciously where there is a slow but incremental increase in the complexity of information security which leads to chaos The information security field is not...