Reading the front page of this morning’s IBD, staring me right in the face was an article on forcing industry to give the government keys to decrypt customer information. While a knee jerk reaction to the Paris terrorist attacks this … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2015
This last week’s news that Starwood reported a breach affecting 54 of their locations is a continuation of an unsettling trend of detection gaps where organizations often take months to discover that they have been hacked. In this case, the … Continue reading
The cybersecurity profession, like many other professional disciplines requires annual continuing education. Yesterday, working to complete the needed hours for this year, I attended an all-day seminar sponsored by ISACA. The attendees were all security professionals, some operational and most … Continue reading
Some time back, I blogged about the true intent of a denial of service attack, (DDoS). In that post I discussed that the true intent of a DDoS attack is usually to create a distraction, forcing the IT staff to … Continue reading
Headlines can be found on a daily basis reporting increased cybercrime. While larger businesses are better funded protecting themselves, the small business market is undeserved by the large security vendors. Worse, with the cyber security business bringing in billions in … Continue reading