Category: Information Security
Everything filed under Information Security.
An Infosec Hippocratic Oath
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this…
USDA Driving Towards Both Food Insecurity And Cyber-Insecurity?
It's rare that two of my passions—food and information security—intersect, but thanks to the USDA's announcement of their Blueprint For Stronger Service , I can touch on both in one…
Businessweek Infographic Illustrates The Pounding We Took In 2011
Evan Applegate put together a great & simple infographic for Businessweek that illustrates the number and size of 2011 data breaches pretty…
Improve Your Security Metrics For $14.00USD
First, go to this Amazon link and enter "ETXTBOOK" (no quotes) as the code, you'll get a credit of $10.00USD for Amazon Kindle textbooks. That credit expires on January 9 th , 2012,…
NEISTU 3.0 : Rise of the Tweetup
It's that time again! Coming to Nashua, NH on 2012-01-21 : The New England Information Security Tweetup…
Three Resolutions For Web Developers
I'm on a " three things " motif for 2012, as it's really difficult for most folks to focus on more than three core elements well. This is especially true for web developers as they have so much to contend with on a daily basis, whether it…
An Open Letter to IT Vendors For 2012
2012 is nigh upon us and with the new year, I am throwing down a challenge to each and every IT vendor out there. 2011 was a brutal year of incidents, breaches, outages and FUD and the last thing anyone needs is a repeat performance.…
Predictions? Humbug! Resolve Is Where It's At
This is the time of year when pundits and armchair/amateur analysts make predictions for the coming year. Given that only a tiny fraction of them predicted the Sonage of 2011 (not Sony specifically or the level of pwnage) or the…
You're The Mayor of FUDville!
Given the plethora of FUD-dropping in the article, I could only think of one way to do it justice, and that was a paragraph-by-paragraph check-in via: Every FUD-check…
DNSChanger Detector
The FBI made a tool to help you determine if you were a victim of the DNSChanger…