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07 Dec 2011BitLocker, Passware…heads in sand everywhere!
Three times in the past three weeks. That's how many conversations I've had people who have blown off any sort of technical or operational weaknesses associated with Microsoft BitLocker when using it as an enterprise full disk encryption solution. They're well-documented. I highlighted these issues in my recent whitepaper The Hidden Costs of Microsoft BitLocker as well.I've said it before and I'll continue saying it: I've sung the praises of ...
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07 Dec 2011
Join me live online today with TechTarget & ISACA
Today is our live virtual seminar Making the Case for the Cloud: The Next Steps. Join me, Urs Fischer, Dave Shackleford, Andrew Baer and Diana Kelley to hear about various aspects of cloud computing you may not have thought about.Starting at 11:15am ET, I'll be presenting on Incident Response in Cloud Computing. I'll talk about common incident response weaknesses I see in my work, questions you must ask your cloud ...
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01 Dec 2011
You’re in charge of your own crisis
Whether or not you - or your management - believes you'll suffer a security incident it certainly pays to be prepared. Odds are that something is going to occur.Does your business have a solid incident response plan? What about a communications plan? Is an executive or business PR representative going to say "Um, well, uh you know - we got hacked and stuff..." to the eager media or are they ...
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25 Aug 2011
Join me live today at Dark Reading’s webinar #iwkdrbreaches
I'm speaking at the #Information Week/Dark Reading Virtual Trade Show How Security Breaches Happen and What Your Organization Can Do About It. My session is titled How to Win the War Against Cybercrime and starts at 2:30pm ET. Here are a few words about it: What are you doing to avoid becoming the next Wikileaks, Google, or Sony? Despite the fact that businesses will spend over 50 billion dollars worldwide ...
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06 Jun 2011
InfraGard Atlanta hack highlights some lessons for us all
What started with an email from a colleague's compromised Gmail account Friday evening has ended up making international news - the InfraGard Atlanta website has been hacked. With user names, email addresses and passwords - including those associated with the FBI - available via a quick web search I knew that this was a pretty serious issue. Although I've been disconnected from InfraGard Atlanta for the past ~6 years, I ...
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23 May 2011
Sony PlayStation discussion download
In case you missed our Sony PlayStation Security Fiasco roundtable discussion last week, here's a link to the MP3 recording.Enjoy!...
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16 May 2011
Today’s dicussion on the Sony PlayStation Security Breach
Join us for this roundtable teleconference on Monday, May 16, 2011 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET with yours truly, Andrew Baker, Anton Chuvakin, John Pirc and Richard Stiennon where we will discuss the recent Sony PlayStation Network security breach. Topics will include:• Sony is now implementing new security measures; should these have been in place all along?• What does Sony need to do to restore confidence in their network ...
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04 May 2011
From culture to products to malware to breaches – where do you stand?
Here are some new opinion pieces on information security management that I wrote for Security Technology Executive magazine that you may be interested in:Don’t end up on the wrong side of a data breachFighting the malware fight all over again9 good reasons not to buy information security productsSecurity best practices without question?How's your security culture?Enjoy!As always, be sure to check out www.principlelogic.com/resources.html for links to all of my information security ...
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18 Apr 2011
From each according to his ability to each according to his need
I thought this Marxist/Obama philosophy was very fitting for our symbolic day today here in the U.S. The general belief that the government should decide what the people need is what's driving our country...and the world. And we wonder why we can't get out of this economic mess! The reality is that the economy cannot be taxed into prosperity but that's what the politicians want to make us believe...especially if ...
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02 Mar 2011
Data breach statistics show that problems still exist
Have you checked out the Chronology of Data Breaches lately?...Very interesting stats on known data breaches. I peruse the site through every now and then and it seems that every time I do there's an organization that 1) I've done business with (for personal stuff) or 2) as in the case of MicroBilt Corporation's breach posted last week they're right down the road from me.Does the six degrees of separation ...
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Kevin has written/co-written 12 books on information security including one of the best-sellers of all time:
