Kevin Beaver's Security Blog

Job hunting? How you can stand out & kick your competitors’ butts

Looking for a job in IT or infosec? Here's what you need to do:Getting hired in IT: How to stand out...

CSRF doesn’t matter?? The sky is falling!

Here's a great piece where something I wrote put a grown man with a hacker handle's boxers in a bunch. With all due respect to what Robert has contributed to our field, he is missing the point of my 8 sentence statement about cross-site request forgery (CSRF) not being a top priority (formerly published on SearchSoftwareQuality.com). It reminds of me when I wrote about Changes coming to the OWASP Top ...

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A simple yet highly-effective career booster

One of the best things you can ever do for your career in IT or information security is to network, network, network. It's all about who knows you. Here's what it takes:Networking to enhance your IT career...

My (other) webinar this week: Strategies for Securing your Enterprise for Success

If you're around at 2pm ET this Thursday (tax day, woohoo!) please join me for another free webinar: Strategies for Securing your Enterprise for SuccessAs with all my webinars/webcasts I'll keep it short and sweet - I'll talk for ~20 minutes and we'll have a Q&A at the end.You can register here:https://credantevents.webex.com/credantevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=660432648"See" you there!...

My webinar this week: Data Protection: The Realities of Proactive vs. Reactive

Join me tomorrow around lunchtime (or breakfast depending on where you're at) for a webinar on Data Protection: The Realities of Proactive vs. ReactiveI'm going to talk for ~20 minutes and we'll have a Q&A at the end.It's at 12pm ET and you can register here:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/936383032Hope to "see" you there!...

View every day as a blessing

Between losing both grandmothers and helping my mom through a serious struggle she's having with cancer over the past 4 weeks combined with this news about Brian Tracy who has been a wonderful inspiration and mentor to me I'm compelled to say: View every day as a blessing for we truly don't know how much time we have here on Earth....

My 500th blog post + how does your salary compare to others?

I just realized that this is my 500th blog post. Hopefully you're up to 500 more posts of my security nonsense!If you haven't seen it yet you should check out Global Knowledge's 2010 Salary Survey. It sheds some light on what you can and should be earning in IT and information security. Just remember that Global Knowledge is a training company and they want to tout how well -off you'll ...

Tools & techniques for hacking Windows servers & workstations

Ever wonder how Windows servers get hacked? Perhaps you're unsure of which approach you need to use the get the most out of your security testing at the server and desktop levels? Or you may be wondering what you need to do to lock down Windows-based Web servers? Maybe you're curious about how Windows Server 2008 R2 stands up to security tests?Well, I've got just what you need to know ...

Pros and cons of disk imaging

Disk imaging is one of those awesome technologies that so many businesses can benefit from yet so few people (at least from what I see) are using it. Here's a new piece I wrote for SearchDataBackup.com where I talk about the pros and cons of disk imaging and how you can benefit from it:Using disk imaging software in data backup and recovery...