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27 Sep 2017SEC, Equifax, what’s next? Focus on – and fix – the stuff that matters in security.
I recently consulted with a client on the SEC and Equifax breaches and had some thoughts that I left with that I wanted to share here: Your security program is only as good as your day-to-day processes and people. No amount of policies, plans, and technologies is going to prevent you from getting hit. Reactive security is apparently the new norm, at least according to SEC chairman Jay Clayton. I ...
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08 Jan 2017
Hacking is not just an action, it’s an excuse
Given all the ridiculous analyses and "findings" on Russian hacking as of late such as federal government bureaucrats who said there's no evidence to prosecute Clinton or who claim that the NSA does not collect data on America citizens yet they're certain that the Russians meddled in the U.S. election - many assertions of which are coming from talking heads with zero experience working in this field - I thought ...
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14 Apr 2016
Will the DBIR include Verizon’s latest breach?
I'm a little late to pull the trigger on this but felt compelled to ask the question nonetheless:Will Verizon include it's recent breach in its (presumably) forthcoming Data Breach Investigations Report? ...It's related to this press release I received ~3 weeks ago:...
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08 Jun 2011
Weiner fallout: “I got hacked” is the new scapegoat
I recently met up with some technology lawyer colleagues after work and we shared our thoughts on the Anthony Weiner "incident". We were talking about how early on in the saga no one but Weiner and the lucky recipients of his tweets really knew what the truth was. Predictably, as we're seeing and hearing more and more these days, Weiner came out and said "I was hacked. It happens to ...
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20 Nov 2009
“Computer glitch” always to blame for someone’s bad choices
Here's my two cents on the people failure - I mean "computer glitch" - at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport yesterday. Gotta blame something...Hartsfield outage: "Computer glitch" or FAA "people failure"?...
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27 Aug 2008
Gotta love the overused “computer glitch” excuse
Here we go again with a "computer glitch" causing a big problem - this time with the FAA's flight plan tracking system.Last time I checked, computers are told what to do...I studied computers at the bit level for way too many years in college to know that PEOPLE cause computer problems. It's easier to blame computers though. They don't argue back. Yet....
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His final report was very thorough and included security recommendations for our network environment. The executive leadership was so impressed with Kevin’s security expertise, they have extended their agreement to continue to perform periodic testing. We highly recommend Kevin Beaver and Principle Logic as a resource for network security testing.”
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Kevin has written/co-written 12 books on information security including one of the best-sellers of all time:
