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Number One Wordpress Security Step

2008-03-31 02:53:02 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...step you can take to keep your Wordpress blog secure Keep the software up-to-date This may sound almost patronizingly obvious, but hold on a second. Every day hackers use unpatched servers or services of one kind or another as the bread and butter of their trade (stealing data, creating Bot networks, selling hacked server access to phishers,...
 
Tags: wordpress, step, wordpress security step, wordpress automatic, wordpress development feed, wordpress community, security, wordpress blog secure, blog
 
 
 
 
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Think of Guest Networking as a Strategic First Step Toward NAC

2007-12-06 19:02:04 by Posted By: Lawrence Orans, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...step further: It says "let's make sure that this device is not dangerous to our network before we grant it access." In other words, we baseline the PC to make sure that it is free of malware or that it is at least compliant with our device policies. The guest networking/NAC distinction is an important one. Not all guest networking projects...
 
Tags: nac, guest, nac takes, strategic nac implementation, guest networks, network, network access control, true nac solution, guest networkingnac distinction
 
 
 
 
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Major ISPs step up to curb child porn

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2008-06-10 05:50:00 by HASH0x8b04530 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...step up. Steven Musil reports that according to this NY Times article , NY State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo has forced several of the largest ISPs including Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable to institute blocking of web sites and usenet groups that traffic in child pornography. I say what took so long. For years now the ISPs have...
 
Tags: sites, illegal sites, andrew cuomo, cuomo, isps, andrew cuomo credit, child porn, porn, illegal
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...step further; the only way you make big changes in a large software company is when the boss says you have to do so. So why did Bill send the memo to all Microsoft employees? It was simple, he (and the entire senior management team for that matter) recognized Microsoft faced a problem that needed solving; the company needed to shore up the...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, fewer security vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, source security bugs, bugs, major microsoft products, microsoft products, security
 
 
 
 
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My New Favorite Tool Case Complete by Serlio Software

2006-10-17 04:54:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...steps. If you attach an exception to step 2, then move step 2 to 3, it will update the exception to step 3 as well. Even typing Continue at Step 4 in an exception will cause it to change if step 4 were ever renumbered Link to other Use Cases or Requirements. All you have to do is highlight some text or just right click on an empty space and...
 
Tags: word, word report, microsoft word, exception steps, move step, step, exception, word deals, serlio software
 
 
 
 
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The Conscious Competence Security Model

2007-10-05 12:44:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...step number 2 moving (hopefully) to step 3 My feeling is that most companies are at stage 1 with a resistance to move to stage 2. Companies that are at stage 1 would (probably) not be a part of the CSO magazine community. I think that very few companies would be at step 4 but many companies would be battling along at step 3 Obviously the...
 
Tags: information security field, information, information security spin, information security, security, security incident, computer security, conscious competence, model
 
 
 
 
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Four stages to establishing a successful IT Risk Management Lifecycle

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2007-11-27 13:24:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
...Steps to Get from Good to Great . After reading it I found myself noticing it's similarity to a four step process I picked up in my early consulting days at International Network Services (INS) that seems to always be valid for most IT related life cycles. This four step life cycle I'm referencing is "P, D, I, O" which stands for "Plan,...
 
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Henry Ford and Agility (Once you are secured - whats next?)

2008-06-05 14:04:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...step (making cars of different colours) and lost a lot of market share But bringing the conversation back to Information Security and IT computers are now cheap because of efforts by companies such as Microsoft and IBM and Intel to make computers accessible to the man in the street. Of course, in doing so they have made Information...
 
Tags: information security, information, henry ford, information security nirvana, henry ford lost, processes, tie processes, information flows, business
 
 
 
 
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Making Threat Modeling Work Better

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2007-10-17 00:23:53 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
...step. Its an ideal first step because everyone can do it, see that theyve done it, and feel like theyre making progress The core mechanism weve used to provide it is the STRIDE/element chart. (Ill talk a lot more about its origins and limits in a few posts, but for now, lets pretend its gospel, and enumerates all possible threats.) Given this...
 
Tags: threat, process, process helps ensure, developers threat model, database design process, security, trust boundaries, threat model, security experts