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10 Nov 2010The fundamental flaw of information security in SMBs
Here's a good piece that Entrepreneur Magazine put together for SMBs to ensure they have a secure information systems environment. I don't disagree with any of the recommendations. What I do find interesting is that there's no mention of "determine where you're weak".Be it in the beginning before you put all of the recommended controls in place (and potentially saving yourself a lot of time/money if it's determined you don't ...
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27 Oct 2010
Talk about old school…
I recently came across a Web site I was creating an account for which stated the following for its login requirements:Your user name & password must consist of letters in all caps 4-7 characters in length.Too funny......
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20 Sep 2010
With this tool there’s no excuse to not analyze your source code
A few months back I wrote about Checkmarx's CxDeveloper source code analysis product. Well, I've had some more recent source code analysis experience with the tool and thought I'd write a follow up piece.I'll start by saying that I can't stress how cost-effective this tool is for performing source code analysis...esp. when similar products cost MUCH more. Granted, I haven't performed my own run-off between CxDeveloper and the likes of ...
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15 Apr 2010
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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14 Feb 2010
Great tool for seeking out sensitive info on your network
One of the greatest risks in business today is the issue of unstructured information scattered about the network waiting to be misused and abused by rogue insiders and other outsiders that have gained "internal" access.Reality has shown us that we absolutely cannot protect what we don't acknowledge. The best way to minimize this risk is to search your network far and wide for PII and other sensitive business information you ...
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07 Jan 2010
My latest security content, Linux-style
Hope your first week of the last decade of the new millennium is going well!Here's some more new information security content - focusing on Linux security this time around. Enjoy!Finding password weaknesses in your Linux systemsHardening Linux with Bastille UNIXUsing BackTrack to check for Linux vulnerabilitiesMany thanks to Leah Rosin with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com for getting me on board with these.You know the drill - as always, be sure to check out ...
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08 Nov 2009
The real deal with the SSL/TLS flaw
Over the past few days Twitter, security blogs, and news columns have been going crazy with the newly-discovered SSL/TLS flaw. Man, you'd think it's the next WEP exploit discovery. The security sky is falling...we must retreat.Seriously, is this thing a big deal? Not in my opinion - at least not in all but 99.9% of any given situation. But what do I know? I'm just the security guy that sees ...
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09 Oct 2009
My latest security content
Here are a couple of new articles of mind that were just published. Many more to come. Enjoy!Balancing Windows security with reasonable password policiesStorage encryption essentialsBe sure to check out www.principlelogic.com/resources.html for all of my information security articles, podcasts, webcasts, screencasts, Twitter updates, and more....
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16 Sep 2009
My latest security content
Here's my latest information security content. Hope you enjoy!Big IT Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn (an IncTechnlogy.com piece I contributed to)How often should I change the passwords for my bank and other important online accounts? (a Women's Health magazine piece I contributed to)Web 2.0 application security troubleshooting, testing tutorialHIPAA-covered entities, business associates confront HITECH Act rulesTen sure-fire ways to derail your career in IT What you should know about cloud ...
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04 Sep 2009
My latest security content
My goodness - it's been over a month since I've posted my latest security content...I've been so busy writing the stuff that posting the links has gotten put on the back burner. Good problem to have! Anyway, here's my latest:Networking to enhance your IT careerToeing the company line – is it good or bad for your IT career?Security and compliance can go together, when done in the right orderMaking sense ...
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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:
