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According to the DHS website, “NCATS provides an objective third-party perspective on the current cybersecurity posture of the stakeholder’s unclassified operational/business networks.”
The agency’s site also mentions that the service is free.
“NCATS security services are available at no-cost to stakeholders and can range from one day to two weeks depending on the security services required,” it says.
NCATS is mainly composed of two programs. One, known as Cyber Hygiene, is an automated scan of a company’s network to suss out any known vulnerabilities. Another, called the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA),LOANS COMPANIES four to five security experts for a two-week period during which they conduct onsite assessments, launch targeted trial attacks and test incident response plans.
The RVA program also orchestrates a spearPHISHING campaign on employees to see how often they fall for the fraudulent emails that attempt to lure people into clicking on a malicious link or attachment.
An NCATS report from the 2014 fiscal year found that one quarter of employees were duped.
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works closely with public and private sector partners to strengthen the security and resilience of their systems against evolving threats in cyberspace,” said DHS spokesperson Sy Lee in an email.
NCATS, Lee added, “focuses on proactively engaging with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and private sector stakeholders to assist them in improving their cybersecurity posture, limit exposure to risks and threats, and reduce rates ofEXPLOITATION .”
Krebs reported that NCATS had provided its services to 53 companies in 2015.
Government and lawmakers have been searching for ways to bolster cyber defenses within the critical infrastructure sectors, generally defined as the industries vital to maintaining the necessary networks in the U.S. That includes power grid companies, emergency services,FINANCIAL services and communications providers, among others.
Researchers and top intelligence officials have warned that many of these industries are dangerously lagging in cybersecurity, leaving critical services exposed to hackers.
NationalSECURITY Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers recently told Congress that, on a scale of 1 to 10, the U.S. was at a “5 or 6” in its preparedness to defend its critical infrastructure against a major cyberattack.
The Senate in October passed a cybersecurity bill, known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which would encourage businesses to share more data on hacking threats with the government.
The bill also includes a clause that would require DHS to assess the cybersecurity readiness at roughly 65 companies behind the nation’s infrastructure, and develop a plan for preventing a “catastrophic” cyberattack.
It’s not clear whether this provision will make it into the final bill, which is currently being hammered out in a conference with the House. The lower chamber passed its companion cybersecurity bills in April.
Source: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/261658-dhs-hacks-businesses-for-free-to-test-cybersecurity | https://nationalcybersecurity.com/dhs-hacks-businesses-for-free-to-test-cybersecurity/ |
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Hello Logstashers! We're glad to present you all the past couple week's news in convenient digest form! This past week has been mostly about fixes. We have some big picture things we're working on, but nothing in enough shape to share yet.
6.1.0/6.1.1 regression: JSON with empty keys can cause LS to crashWe already have a fix merged in. It didn't make 6.1.1, we are now targeting 6.1.2 for this fix. | https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-lines-2017-12-19 |
Day one included five keynote speeches, 22 track sessions and over 35 companies showcasing their latest capabilities.
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 15th November, 2016 - RSA Conference (http://www.rsaconference.com/), the world’s leading information security conference and exposition, in partnership with the UAE National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) today concluded the first day of the conference at Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi.
Prominent speakers from global organizations and regional government entities attended the event, which served as a platform for discussion around the cybersecurity landscape in the region, knowledge sharing and best practices for mitigating both current threats and ones expected to emerge in the future.
The opening keynote session was delivered by Deputy Director General, Information & eGov Sector of TRA, Mohammed Al Zarooni.
This was followed by Amit Yoran, President of RSA, who gave a presentation titled “Changing Perspective” that placed emphasis on the need for organizations to embrace diverse viewpoints when tackling cyber security challenges. Also, industry professionals representing Qualys, DarkMatter, and Tenable Security took the auditorium stage to provide valuable insights on interesting topics.
A spokesperson from National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) said; “We strongly believe that increasing the awareness of cyber security in the UAE is an important factor in achieving our long term vision to create a safer culture surrounding cyber-activity. RSA Conference 2016 Abu Dhabi acts as the perfect platform for organizations in the private and public sector to gain a more thorough understanding of cyber security trends, so that they are able to be better prepared for the future.” “Today experts from leading companies from around the word engaged in discussions around the crucial trends facing the cybersecurity sector. We are extremely pleased with the success of this year’s event so far and look forward to carrying this momentum to close out the conference tomorrow.” Said Linda Gray Martin, General Manager for RSA Conferences.
RSA Conference is the premier series of global events where the world talks security and leadership gathers, advances and emerges. Whether attending in the U.S., the EMEA region, or the Asia-Pacific region, RSA Conference events are where the security industry converges to discuss current and future concerns and get access to the people, content and ideas that help enable individuals and companies to win, grow and do their best. It is the ultimate marketplace for the latest technologies and hands-on educational opportunities that help industry professionals discover how to make their companies more secure while showcasing the most enterprising, influential and thought-provoking thinkers and leaders in security today. For information on events, online programming and the most up-to-date news pertaining to the information security industry visit www.rsaconference.com
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1. Connect the wireless router to the internet and ensure that the internet is working fine.
2. Enable DHCP on the wireless router. This would ensure that all devices on the network receive IP address dynamically. Exclude two IP address for the printer and the access point from the DHCP server. This is assuming that the server is setup on the cloud.
3. Connect the wireless router to the switch.
4. Connect the access point to the switch 5. Connect the PCs and printer to the network. If the printer is a wireless printer , connect it to the access point on the network. | https://www.networkshelf.com/small-business-computer-network-setup/ |
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Of course, we also have selections in popular categories such as PC customization, security, and productivity, as well as photo and system utilities, lifestyle enhancers, timesavers, and more. [Note: All in our list were free as of 2/28/2010 but that status can change over time.]
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Various organizations have laid down principles for risk management. There are risk management principles by International standardization Organization and by Project Management Body of Knowledge.
The Project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) has laid down 12 principles. This article carries an amalgamation of both PMBOK and ISO principles. The various principles are:
Organizational Context: Every organization is affected to varying degrees by various factors in its environment (Political, Social, Legal, and Technological, Societal etc). For example, an organization may be immune to change in import duty whereas a different organization operating in the same industry and environment may be at a severe risk. There are also marked differences in communication channels, internal culture and risk management procedures. The risk management should therefore be able to add value and be an integral part of the organizational process.
Involvement of Stakeholders: The risk management process should involve the stakeholders at each and every step of decision making. They should remain aware of even the smallest decision made. It is further in the interest of the organization to understand the role the stakeholders can play at each step.
Organizational Objectives: When dealing with a risk it is important to keep the organizational objectives in mind. The risk management process should explicitly address the uncertainty. This calls for being systematic and structured and keeping the big picture in mind.
Reporting: In risk management communication is the key. The authenticity of the information has to be ascertained. Decisions should be made on best available information and there should be transparency and visibility regarding the same.
Roles and Responsibilities: Risk Management has to be transparent and inclusive. It should take into account the human factors and ensure that each one knows it roles at each stage of the risk management process.
Support Structure: Support structure underlines the importance of the risk management team. The team members have to be dynamic, diligent and responsive to change. Each and every member should understand his intervention at each stage of the project management lifecycle.
Early Warning Indicators: Keep track of early signs of a risk translating into an active problem. This is achieved through continual communication by one and all at each level. It is also important to enable and empower each to deal with the threat at his/her level.
Review Cycle: Keep evaluating inputs at each step of the risk management process - Identify, assess, respond and review. The observations are markedly different in each cycle. Identify reasonable interventions and remove unnecessary ones.
Supportive Culture: Brainstorm and enable a culture of questioning, discussing. This will motivate people to participate more.
Continual Improvement: Be capable of improving and enhancing your risk management strategies and tactics. Use your learning’s to access the way you look at and manage ongoing risk. | https://www.managementstudyguide.com/principles-of-risk-management.htm |
Last month we exclusively reported one of the new security features coming to Microsoft account – enhanced account aliases, aimed to replace the account renaming feature currently in place. Whilst Microsoft has recently silently switched back on the account renaming feature, the new account aliases feature has yet to make its appearance. However, LiveSide understands that Microsoft has more security features planned for its Microsoft account service. One of these new features include two-factor authentication.
By setting up “Two-step verification”, when logging in to your Microsoft account from any device or apps (with the exception of devices added to your trusted PC list), in addition to typing in your password you will also be prompted to enter a security code randomly generated by an Authenticator app on your phone.
Interestingly, thanks to a tip from LiveSide reader Levee, the Authenticator apps is already available on the Windows Phone Store. Below is a description of the app:
The Authenticator app generates security codes you can use to help keep your Microsoft account secure. You can add your Microsoft account to the app by scanning a barcode or by manually entering a secret key. The app implements industry-standard security code generation and may also work with other services and providers. You can learn more about keeping your Microsoft account secure at https://account.live.com/p.
Whilst currently unavailable, the Microsoft account website (http://account.live.com) will soon provide the ability to pair your Authenticator app to your account, as shown below:
One of the limitations of the two-step verification feature is that it will not work with linked accounts, as such users are required to unlink all their linked accounts before turning the feature on. In addition, some apps or devices that uses Microsoft account might not support two-step verification (such as the mail app on some phones), as such Microsoft also added a feature called “app password”. When you have turned on two-step verification and signs in to an app or device that doesn’t support the feature, simply generate an app password from the Microsoft account website, and enter that into the password field to sign in.
Unfortunately we do not yet know the timing of the release of this new feature, but rest assured that it will be coming soon. This will be a welcoming update for many users who had been requesting for this feature, particularly given Google accounts already support two-factor authentication. What do you think about this new feature? Let us know in the comments below! | https://www.liveside.net/2013/04/09/exclusive-microsoft-account-to-get-two-factor-authentication-soon/ |
New guidance issued by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) aims to help industrial equipment operators and manufacturers better ensure the safety, security and reliability of IoT endpoint devices.
Drawing on and pulling together guidance issued by both the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the 13-page white paper provides concrete measures to take to secure critical endpoint devices like pumps, actuators, controllers and drives across industries and verticals. While IEC and NIST have done a good job of characterizing risk, the paper’s co-authors said, the white paper provides a consistent approach on how to build a secure system within the level of risk assessed. In such a way, it provides concise, concrete best practices that can, for instance, be included in RFPs when acquiring new equipment or planning upgrades.
“We have an opportunity here to begin at the ground floor of OT security. Let’s build these elements into the systems as opposed to bolting them on,” said Dean Weber, CTO of Mocana and one of the co-authors of the paper. “This gets us started with the endpoint as being the place where the rubber meets the road. If we get that right, we can start moving outbound from that.”
The white paper, “Endpoint Security Best Practices,” is the work of the Security Applicability Group within the IIC Security Working Group. It builds on the reference architecture documentation and IIoT security best practices issued in 2016 with the IIC Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF).
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Recommendations in the new white paper draw on and distill guidance issued in IEC 62443 and NIST SP-800-53. It breaks security into three levels – basic, enhanced and critical – describing what countermeasures and controls are generally recommended to achieve each level of security. Aside from the benefits to OT professionals, this helps equipment manufacturers and integrators define which security level their products, systems, and solutions are designed to meet, according to the white paper. It also can help insurers and policy makers by establishing a common benchmark that can be used to analyze risk and encourage security improvements, according to the white paper.
It is the first of six areas of industrial IoT security that will be examined by the group, which plans to publish additional security best practices documents to cover areas like data protection, communications and connectivity.
Starting by better defining endpoint security made sense for a number of reasons, according to interviews with the co-authors.
For one, in the industrial community, the focus has been about safety and reliability for decades, and adding the realm of cyber security to that has not been simple, Weber said. Because a lot of industrial equipment operators don’t have the background in cyber security, it’s hard to identify the priorities and what concerns should be addressed, according to Steve Hanna, IIC white paper co-author, and Senior Principal, Infineon Technologies.
“With just broad guidelines, it leaves a lot of room for interpretation and possible confusion of omitting measures that need to be taken,” Hanna said.
A dearth of people with these skills, coupled with the growing vulnerability of endpoint devices – something made clear by the Stuxnet attacks — has heightened the stakes for security, according to Weber.
“The endpoint is where it starts and stops,” Weber said. “If you’re going to make decisions, sometimes life or death decisions on data, and you don’t have any knowledge about whether the device that generated that data is any good, you don’t know if can trust it.”
The broad applicability of the document, and the fact that several parties from across industries have come together both requesting and working to produce guidance, shows how important the security conversation has become in the industrial space, according to Hanna.
“The fact that these parties have come together in the IIC, and put together this guidance document, these are all very helpful signs,” Hanna said. “It is very promising that we see industries stepping up to the plate and taking action.”
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Actually old news, but important to know.
[1] http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/unencrypted-data-in-ram
Thats the way, Android core security is built. Quite interesting (see [1]).
[1] http://source.android.com/tech/security
Look at this picture of an image I’ve found hyperlinked on Bruce Schneier’s Blog. It seems as it was absolutely impossible to find a better background for the interview. *LOOOOL* and EPIC FAIL.
[1] http://www.frontlinesentinel.com/2012/05/mlb-security-fail-lol-worthy.html | https://blog.andregasser.net/category/it-security/ |
An official statement issued by the Buckle Inc. retail confirmed that a point-of-sale malware was discovered on cash registers at its stores.
A few hours ago, the popular investigator and cyber security expert Brian Krebs contacted the Buckle Inc. company after sources in the financial sector reported him about a possible card breach at the retailer.
“On Friday morning, KrebsOnSecurity contacted The Buckle after receiving multiple tips from sources in the financial industry about a pattern of fraud on customer credit and debit cards which suggested a breach of point-of-sale systems at Buckle stores across the country.” reported KrebsOnSecurity.
The Buckle Inc. is a clothier that operates more than 450 stores in 44 US states, on Friday the company disclosed that payment systems at its retail locations were infected by a malware used to steal credit card data.
According to the company, the PoS malware was stealing customer credit card data between Oct. 28, 2016 and April 14, 2017. According to the company, online sales were not affected by the card breach.
“We became aware that The Buckle, Inc. was a victim of a security incident in which a criminal entity accessed some guest credit card information follow purchases at some of our retail stores. We immediately launched a thorough investigation and engaged leading third party forensic experts to review our systems and secure the affected part of our network.” states the announcement published by the company.
“Through that investigation we learned that our store payment data systems were infected with a form of malicious code, which was quickly removed. Based on the forensic investigation, we believe that no social security numbers, email addresses or physical addresses were obtained by those criminally responsible. There is also no evidence that the buckle.com website or buckle.com guests were impacted.”
Crooks used malware to capture data stored on the magnetic stripe and clone the cards.
The Buckle Inc. confirmed that its stores are equipped with EMV-capable card terminals, this means that customers who shopped at compromised Buckle stores using a chip-based card would not be affected by the card breach.
The company is currently investigating the card breach with card brands and forensic investigation services.
“All Buckle stores had EMV (“chip card”) technology enabled during the time that the incident occurred and we believe the exposure of cardholder data that can be used to create counterfeit cards is limited. However, it is possible that certain credit card numbers may have been compromised.” states the company.
“We take the protection of payment card data very seriously. We are cooperating fully with card brands and forensic investigation services. Any affected individuals either have or will likely receive communications from their issuing banks with additional instructions and/or replacement cards. In line with best practice, we recommend that individuals closely monitor their payment card account statements.”
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Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., arrives on Capitol Hill on February 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. Lieu launched a invoice which would demand vulnerability disclosures of fedreal contractors. (Photograph by Stefani Reynolds – Pool/Getty Photos)
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., will announce Tuesday a bill that would demand all federal contractors to have a vulnerability disclosure program.
The Improving upon Contractor Cybersecurity Act attracts inspiration from the Office of Homeland Security’s Binding Operational Directive 20-01, which ordered federal businesses to develop disclosure systems.
”As we have witnessed with SolarWinds and now with USAID, each vendor is a possible threat vector. With this monthly bill, we’re acknowledging that risk and earning certain the federal contracting statute can satisfy our requires from a risk management standpoint,” Lieu informed SC Media.
The bill does not involve contractors to patch a vulnerability. But it does require contractors to notify a researcher distributing a vulnerability what measures (if any) would remediate the bug, ensure remediation when complete, assess whether the vulnerability is legitimate, and, if the contractor is not truly accountable for the ingredient with the vulnerability, to notify whoever is.
“Ultimately, our tactic is to incentivize these firms to just take ideal steps, not to get enforcement action versus them for failing to patch a vulnerability,” said Lieu.
Lieu worked with many effectively-recognized disclosure experts and federal cybersecurity specialists in crafting the bill. A press release lists praise from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, HackerOne, and the Digital Privacy Information Heart, as perfectly as former top rated cyber diplomat at the Condition Department Christopher Painter, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plan at DHS Paul Rosenzweig (at the moment of the R Road Institute), and Atlantic Council Cyber Security Innovation Fellow Beau Woods.
1 outstanding researcher solicited for assistance was Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security, who created the bug bounty and disclosure plan at Microsoft and the Pentagon. With the final textual content of the monthly bill not out there at the time of the interview with SC Media, she was not equipped to evaluate just how productive the bill would be.
But a single issue she observed was the deficiency of a crew devoted to remediating the flood of vulnerabilities these kinds of disclosure systems would highlight.
“Without properly trained people today, approach, and technology positioned internally to evaluate relative prioritization of all bugs, and create and check answers, just standing up a way to report bugs will skip the intent,” she stated.
This is a popular dilemma even for corporations that absolutely intend to address all submitted vulnerabilities in disclosure or bounty courses: studying about a lot more vulnerabilities will not translate to extra fixes, unless of course means are set in place to retain up.
Nevertheless contracts would not involve remediation of any quantity of vulnerabilities introduced in by the courses, the government would be capable to not renew contracts with businesses whose managing of vulnerabilities raised researchers’ ire.
A single important purported gain of the modern White House govt purchase imposing cybersecurity demands on software bought to the authorities was that it would go the broader technology market. Lieu hopes the same for his invoice.
“Contracting demands are a great way to shift the market towards a lot more intense, active position in remediating vulnerabilities and generating absolutely sure the [U.S. government] is tackling minimal-hanging fruit,” he explained. | https://thecybersecurity.news/general-cyber-security-news/house-bill-would-require-federal-contractors-to-put-in-place-vulnerability-disclosure-programs-9670/ |
It's not the new facts that the FBI has used hacking methods in the past to spy on suspected criminals, including keyloggers and remotely turning on the microphones in mobile phones, in order to spy on suspected criminals.
Computer viruses and spyware are an unavoidable part of life. You can protect against them, but they'll always be out there lurking.
The Wall Street Journal posted the story that FBI agents hacking people's Android devices and personal computers (PCs) using malware, so that they can turn the MIC on and listen in on conversations.
The FBI hires people who have been hacking skill, and they purchase tools that are capable of doing these things, and develop some hacking tools internally or purchases others from the private sector. It’s also important to note that the US government is now the world’s largest buyer of malware.
The FBI has also developed custom "port reader" software to intercept Internet metadata in real time and U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts.
The FBI has a history of technology-based surveillance. It also previously asked Internet companies to provide surveillance backdoors, stands to benefit from CISPA, and is also involved in the ongoing PRISM scandal alongside the NSA.
While most of the FBI’s intrusion methods are top secret some of their practices have been discovered. The former FBI official who spoke to the Journal, claimed that the method is restricted to those associated with child pornography, organized crime, or counterterrorism.
"The bureau has controls to ensure only "relevant data" are scooped up, the person said. A screening team goes through all of the data pulled from the hack to determine what is relevant, then hands off that material to the case team and stops working on the case." he said.
Once data are collected, the virus sends the information to an independent screening team tasked with removing all irrelevant data swept up by the spyware. Evidence is then handed over to the primary investigators, who use the material to build criminal cases.
Unlike the NSA PRISM program the FBI Android and PC monitoring solutions are only activated with court order on a case-by-case basis. However, trust in the government is quite low these days, so it’s unfortunate that most of us will hear this and wonder if the FBI is spying on the rest of us, too. | http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/Android-hacking-spying-tool-surveillance-FBI-virus-backdoor.html |
The Africa Cyber Defense Forum through its well curated and world class content, this year hosted its 2nd Cybersecurity forum under the theme Rethinking the new risk management models towards cyber resilience.
This year’s forum was graced by keynote speakers from around the globe in the Cybersecurity community such as Chris Kubecka, CEO HypaSec, Susie Hargreaves, CEO Internet Watch Foundation among others.
The forum involved intense conversations around key thematic areas through sessions, panel discussions, innovative technology demos attracting speakers and participants from Africa, Europe, Asia, and America.
AFRALTI Director, Mr. William Baraza who is also the Forum’s Advisory Board Chairman in his opening remarks said, “As the global scientists, healthcare professionals, governments keep the fight to curb the covid-19 pandemic, cyber criminals have taken advantage of the situation and this has seen our headlines dotted with more cyber attacks targeting critical national infrastructures all over the world. The continent’s cybercrime trends have really been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic due to the accelerated option of connectivity tools to facilitate among other tools, working remotely, E-learning, Social media and E-commerce. The ACDF conference provides a platform to imminent solution to our collective exposure to these pervasive trend.”
In 2021, the forum also had the opportunity of hosting a 24 hour virtual Cyberlympics competition sponsored by CompTIA which saw participants from the continent battling for the prize. Team Wolf-hunters from Ghana led the board with 2520 points, Black Fire of Ivory Coast took the 1st runners-up position with 1280 points and Unknown from Ivory Coast took the 2nd runners-up position with 1270 points.
ACDF will continue to spearhead these conversations amongst top-level government leaders, technology experts, business leaders, and other leaders of society to shape a continental, regional, and industry agenda in the African cyberspace. | https://www.afralti.org/africa-cyber-defense-forum-2021/ |
Skimmers, tastic thief, sniffers, Internet of Things… you may or may not know what these things are and how they pertain to attacks. A simple online search for hacking equipment returns a variety of results for inventions made for the sole purpose of infiltrating your corporate network. Most people envision a hacker as a guy in his mom's basement building sophisticated hardware. But it's really much simpler. The reality is… it's very easy to acquire usernames and passwords without a substantial monetary investment. Most of the successful attacks you read about today began with very humble beginnings: just a phone call or email.
Financial institutions are in the customer service business. As such, managers want to hire employees who are friendly and engaging with their customers. Unfortunately, this can be a double-edged sword. It is probably safe to say that most employees will not give their usernames and passwords over the phone; however, it may be surprising to learn of the numbers of people who will go to a website and type in their credentials. It is a simple ruse. The bad actor will set up a website with image/logos taken from an institution's website. The website will contain fields for a username and password. The hacker will get friendly with the bank employee on the phone asking them to go to a website and enter their credentials to test a new banking site. The employee will try entering their credentials and receive an error on the page. The hacker will thank them for their time and explain there is more work to do on the site. Behind the scenes, the site captured those credentials as they were submitted and now the hacker has system access. It is a very simple scam that does not cost a lot of money.
Another successful hacking medium is email. Phishing attacks continue to be on the rise. Specific types of phishing such as spear phishing (phishing email targeting a specific person) and whaling (phishing targeting the CEO or other upper level management) have found increased success as well. When phishing first surfaced, spoofed emails were crude in appearance and often easily identifiable. The skill and sophistication used to craft these emails have grown swiftly. Now, with free tools and a little patience, a hacker can create an email that looks like it comes directly from the CEO.
The commonality across both of these types of attacks is people. You can invest significant amounts of money into network tools and hardware to mitigate threats, but all it takes is one employee to bypass those safeguards by clicking on the wrong link or being too trusting to a "customer." There are some simple steps an institution can take to mitigate the risk these threats pose:
Training. Train all levels of employees to recognize the various threats that come through email and other social engineering mediums.
Testing. Test your employees using available phishing tools and companies that offer social engineering testing.
More Training. As testing reveals various weaknesses, evaluate responses and conduct more individualized training.
Although sometimes equipped with the latest gadgets in the movies, today's hacker is hard to distinguish from any other person on the street. Times may have been more simple when bank robbers wore masks so they were more easily identified. Even though they may be hard to detect, there are simple methods a financial institution can employ to significantly mitigate the risk. Through training, testing and retraining, institutions stand a much greater chance of defeating today's devious hacker. | https://conetrix.com/articles/plugging-the-social-engineering-hole-in-your-defenses |
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Holidays always give us time to reflect and recharge our batteries, and can often be inspirational experiences. For me, learning to ski has brought its own insights, in some unexpected places.
As I went through the week – from the first clumsy exit off the chair lift, through the challenge of skiing down sheet ice, to a day when I realised I needed a different pair of goggles due to the grey, flat light – I began to see parallels with the experience of a new business implementing information security for the first time.
For me, the equipment and accoutrements of a given activity are one of the most exciting parts of a new hobby. For my first skiing trip I wanted to be prepared so I bought a helmet, goggles, ski jacket and pants, and thermal leggings, even big cosy down-filled mittens. I felt I was fairly well prepared, without going overboard – no point in buying the really expensive equipment like boots and skis if I didn’t take to the sport.
A new business might take a similar approach to its own security – I spent on simple physical protection, without overspending on technology before I had a definite business case to support that spending. As it turned out, I encountered a vulnerability during my trip which the implementation of protective technology –light-enhancing lenses for my goggles to cope with the poor light.. Going back to our business analogy, this could easily have been, say, a malware exposure prompting the purchase of some decent AV software.
One of my friends on the trip didn’t buy a helmet. She didn’t think she needed one, reasoning that she wouldn’t fall on her head. But what about the impact others have – on a busy mountain in poor conditions, it only takes one careless friend falling and taking everyone else out to put her head in danger. Some protection we employ not just against malicious actors, but accidentally clumsy allies. In business it’s often employees or third parties who unintentionally cause data breaches.
One girl was knocked off the chair lift on her first day, breaking her wrist. We might be able to minimise the likelihood of this kind of unexpected event with education and awareness training, another useful tool in the Security Officer’s toolbox.
As it turned out, the weather was fairly mild and none of the thermals were needed. If I were a CISO in a new business, could I justify that spend on apparently redundant technology to my finance director? Of course I might get some use out of them next time I go, and sure the weather has changed this week so I could well have needed them if I’d stayed longer. But these are often difficult arguments to make – the ROI on security technology is that “nothing happens” – the business continues to function without incident. Can we encourage our business leaders to see this as analogous with investment in the health and longevity of its people, enabling them to “ski” another day?
And what of that “other day”? The more I ski, the more proficient I will become, but at the same time my equipment will age and wear out. I might find myself drawn to other disciplines on the snow; boarding perhaps, or cross-country skiing; which would require additional training and perhaps more tailored equipment. As businesses mature and develop, they too should examine the relevance and suitability of their security technology and intelligence. Do they need to upgrade that firewall, enhance their network security, or improve their user awareness training to incorporate new concepts and threats?
For me, the key theme running through both skiing and business security is risk. How much are we prepared to accept to enable us to operate in a hostile environment, whether it be a snowy, icy mountain or a business world where we are a new fish in a very big pond full of piranhas?
If we are too risk averse, we won’t succeed in business – you have to open at least some ports on your firewall to enable you to communicate and transact with the outside world. In the same way, you have to actually go up the mountain to throw yourself back down it again.
I’d even go so far as to say, you have to have some accidents to really progress and learn – my helmet-less friend might change her mind about that particular investment after she’s had her first knock from a careless snowboarder.
By taking sensible precautions, appropriate to the size, age and requirements of our business, we can launch ourselves off a mountain fairly safe in the knowledge that we’ll get to the bottom without too much incident and with a smile on our faces. And taking the right precautions in business will also reduce the risk of becoming another cyber-attack victim. | https://theanalogiesproject.org/the-analogies/risk-management-ski-slopes/ |
Under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA), companies have to develop and implement practices and policies that are required to meet its obligations under PDPA.
This has to be done by appointing at least one individual as your company’s Data Protection Officer (DPO), who will handle the data protection responsibilities.
To register your DPO, login to ACRA’s BizFile⁺ portal and select eServices > Others > 3. Register/ Update Data Protection Officer(s).
A DPO plays a big part in your company. More than just ensuring that the PDPA guidelines are met with, a DPO is also responsible for turning data protection into a competitive advantage for your company, which would lead to building trust in the wider data ecosystem.
When choosing a DPO for your company, it can be an existing employee in your company or a third-party. Even though it is not mandatory under PDPC’s law to have the DPO’s details, companies are strongly encouraged to inform them of the details.
When choosing a DPO, companies should assess their needs before appointing a person suitable for the role. Their responsibilities may include:
There is no deadline when it comes to registering your DPO but it is strongly encouraged to register your DPO as early as possible. By doing this, your DPO can be kept abreast of relevant personal data protection developments in Singapore and more.
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Appointment of a DPO letter
When hiring a DPO, you need to formalise the whole process by writing an Appointment of DPO letter.
By doing this, it will help your DPO to understand their responsibilities and also reassure your Data Protection Authority that your company has done its part and understands the importance of this appointment.
It is advised to put in place physical and online systems that will regulate and monitor the movement of personal data out of your business’s premises and computer systems respectively. Find out more here.
Another way is to carry out internal audits to ensure that the processes comply with the PDPA’s guidelines.
If you have not already done so, the next step would be to appoint a DPO who can focus on supporting the growth of your company, and making sure all the mandatory policies on data protection have been met with and stay compliant with PDPA at all times.
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If you are a Mac user, then you may have been led to believe that Mac systems are impervious to cyber-attacks, malware, and viruses. To some extent, this is true because of two reasons. One is that the macOS is based on Unix, which is sandboxed. What this means is that the system has a series of layers that can keep malware at bay and prevent them from reaching the core functions of the system. The second reason is that Mac users are less in number compared to PC users. When the PC market is a lot bigger and it’s easy to hack into a Windows OS, then it makes sense for the hackers to target it over macOS.
Although macOS is pretty powerful and reliable, there is a reason to use a dedicated antivirus for Mac systems like Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac. This is because even though macOS users are limited compared to Windows users, their number is increasing by the day. Also, cybercriminals are realizing that Mac users are often rich, which is why targeting them is worth the effort.
Although Apple has become better in dealing with the privacy and security concerns for its users, like how it made Siri listening feature optional, it can’t be trusted completely. This is why you need a dedicated antivirus even if you trust Apple’s products. If you are going to buy a program, then you should consider the following 5 things first:
Are you tech-savvy or do you prefer user-friendly software applications? Depending on your preferences and skill level, you should pick an antivirus that’s either simple or offers a variety of antivirus tools.
Generally, antivirus users prefer products that you can just set up once and forget forever. However, if you use your system for business or other heavy-duty tasks like software development, graphics design, etc. then you may want an antivirus program that has advanced features for more protection.
There is no such thing as a perfect antivirus solution for Mac. This is because new online threats emerge on the Internet from time to time and the antivirus software has to keep up with them. For instance, global organizations are currently facing a serious threat from ransomware, which are advanced malware programs that can spread in your system and block your personal files. To regain access, the virus demands a ransom (hence the name) and you need to have advanced antivirus protection to prevent falling prey to such attacks.
If you want the best online protection on Mac, then you should find antivirus software that releases updates frequently for maximum protection.
So, there you have it, some of the things that you need to keep in mind when you buy an antivirus program for your Mac systems. Use this information at your discretion and you will be able to choose the perfect product easily. | https://howtotechnaija.com/things-to-consider-before-choosing-antivirus-for-mac/ |
As explained in the first Flaming Retort, this column does not exist to praise our readers’ best flames, nor to repeat them merely in the name of perverse humour, nor to return fire in the wearisome tradition of a flame war.
The goal of Flaming Retort is to comment on a few vigorously held opinions in order to see whether things really are as clear cut – or as polarised – as the flamers might think.
It has recently attracted a surprising amount of support, some vigorous and uncompromising. Indeed, one of the most aggressively rude and unsociable comments on this site is also the one which has attracted the biggest positive vote:
Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or... these guys are going to take your balls. They're going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press-release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... f* with us.
Of course, this isn’t actually a real flame. It doesn’t even have any original content. It’s just a cut-and-paste from the script of the pre-dot-bomb era film Fight Club. And the votes probably aren’t real, either, as a responder points out:
Looks like the Anonymous vote bots have been at this comment.
The Fight Club commenter clearly favours Anon. But not everyone likes everything about it. In particular, one commenter, who doesn’t express any negative opinion about Anon’s overall je ne sais quoi, nevertheless offers the pithy – and undeniably acute – observation that:
Anon are terrible hackers. A true hacker, well, never leaves a trace he was even on the system.
This, as it happens, is one of the comments with the greatest number of negative votes. Hell hath no fury, it seems, like a faceless group scorned.
Where does this get us? Should you join Anonymous? Should you start reading 4chan? (That’s a rhetorical question. One doesn’t so much read 4chan as flounder in it.) Should you join DDoS attacks to prove your social conscience?
Are you really a hacktivist if you anonymously follow the bidding of a bunch of unknowns (literally, if not figuratively) into online activities which you might later regret? If you get caught, will it actually have been worth it?
At the risk of sounding like an Angry Young Man whose anger is now a thing of the past, let me offer today’s web-savvy youngsters some advice.
This quandary – to belong to a possibly-vibrant, probably-illegal, but perhaps unsavoury group – seems surprisingly like the “deal” offered by the virus-writing scene 20 years ago. Back then, to youngsters who thought that the counterculture had something to offer but weren’t too sure whether they actually wanted to break the law, I suggested trying something more ambitious – and socially more useful – instead.
Virus-writing then, like DDoSing now, doesn’t require much intellectual skill. It teaches nothing that cannot be learned more easily in reputable ways. It frequently harms the innocent. And you spend the next ten years hoping no-one will notice you were actually part of the scene. Writing some decent code, however, which actually helps people, is great fun and educationally useful. And you can even put it on your C.V. and take pride in your achievements.
Here’s a suggestion. If you’re straining to be socially relevant and helpful to those less fortunate than you, but you’re not yet ready to sell all your possessions, leave the comfort of your home and go drilling drinking wells in Africa, you can still contribute.
Indeed, you can be a proud and public hacktivist, without going anywhere near Anonymous. There are many places to start. Here’s one. Click and find out more.
(Why not watch this video? That’s Johnny Long, of Hackers for Charity dot Org, talking at Defcon 17 in 2009. Listen right through, until you hear him say, “Make a difference. Do something.”)
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That's so simplified, i really can't believe it. You are breaking down complicated things to stuff you can handle, like DDoSing. What's with the ongoing demonstrations in front of Scientology Buildings? Or with the help they contributed towards Egypt – also still ongoing.
And there you are, trying to tell them to go away and do completely other things, except of giving them real advice on how they could be more helpful. Anonymous has the power to change people, just because they are getting so much attention.
And on your thing with digging water wells in Africa… that's really stupid. Everyone should know that the real problem is, that western companies are robbing the entire continent. nd the only proper way to handle this, is leaking the shit out of them. Not the lack of water, but the lack of education (the africans can dig for themselves).
I think being a part of Anonymous has one point that the 100% legal ways don´t, the myth of the Outlaws. Especially young people are drawn to that myth and if they do good (in their opinion) it even gets stronger.
Again Anonymous is not only the hacking parts, there are a lot of things going on which have nothing to do with hacking but more of the classical trolling, which also happens under the label of Anonymous, not to mention the still ongoing "war" against Scientology etc….
I think that´s another part of the fascination of Anonymous, everyone decides their level of involvement….
uhmn egypt proved you can shut off the internet anytime you want (the kill switch exists here and in your country) and then night dragon showed that american self-defense is basically useless and we do PR better than actual security (hb gary was a consultant on the night dragon paper), then Anon exposed HB Gary for being a dangerous government-funded fraud, and oh, Stuxnet was made by the Israeli government.
But, nope, Anon is the problem and if they just added "good coder" to their CV and got a job then it would all be ok.
It seems people have no honor for the veterans who have lost their lives to preserve freedom and democracy.
Had they not forgotten the reason they could protest? During World War II, soldiers from Allies countries gave their lives to prevent the spread of Nazism all over the world. Had the Nazis won, things would be a lot different nowadays. Also, in the War in the Middle East, the soldiers are cracking down terrorism. Because of them, Alquida has grown weaker and no longer stage “large” attacks against countries in the west.
All in all, whatever your opinion about the war, at the very leat, have the decency to not protest or disrupt during times when people are mourning about the dead.
Unfortunately, as Anonymous contributors mature and grow out of this phase, there is no shortage of folks earlier on the path of life to take their place – kids who have not yet developed a sense of responsibility or morality beyond that fictionalized by Palahniuk and then pureed and spoon-fed to them by Fincher.
Anonymous is a statistics problem. There are two billion internet users around the world. When was the last time you were even in a classroom of only thirty people that didn't have at least one asshole?
To be fair though, not all assholes are members of Anonymous.
Nah for real, you don't get it. You don't have to do anything even vaguely illegal to consider yourself Anonymous. I've met plenty of educated, intelligent people who work on getting protest permits, press releases, and maintaining and moderating forums, disseminating information, and other exclusively legal activities in Anonymous. I've also met people who maintain truly impressive bot nets.
You do what you want to, whether that's protesting Scientology, "hacking" HBGary Federal (lol SQL injection and phishing), or trolling Habbo Hotel for the lulz and posting gore pictures on /b/.
Yes, Code new security measures. They actually have competitions and give out scholarships for preventing such attacks. You have the skills, welp, prove them and make money while you are at it.
I get it. This is a bunch of script kiddies that think they are making a political statement… Yeah, by attacking the police that are the front lines dealing with real life crime. By hurting the users of Bank of America and Amazon who had nothing to do with the corporate decisions.
Yeah, real heroes. Don't care who they frag as long as they make the 6 o'clock news. | https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/25/flaming-retort-whither-anonymous/?replytocom=4048 |
An antivirus security software rating is a crucial indicator of how very good a security course is. That tells you in the event the program are able to stop malware and phishing goes for. These information are publicized by 3rd party labs, although some suppliers pay to obtain their products included. This means that many of these ratings can be outdated and may also not reveal the safety for the latest spyware and adware. In addition , free antivirus burglar alarms may not have the advanced features needed to take care of your system.
One more indicator of antivirus’s efficiency is their performance stats. These include the quantity of devices explored and the number of new detections. You can also find details about how many threats the solution is able to deal with. Other click resources useful figures to look for range from the percentage of threats that are not handled and the availablility of times the software program has had to produce changes to it is definitions. Taking into account these factors can help you decide which security method best for your requirements.
Another gauge of antivirus protection is the number of false benefits. AVG scored the highest possible three personalities for system performance, but it skipped eight percent of problems in the lab’s “real world” tests. Yet , AVG positioned near the top for adware and spyware protection, with 99. 2 percent of test bouts being discovered online or perhaps offline. Can make AVG amongst only three companies to achieve a perfect 100 percent protection charge. | https://finoviti.com/anti-virus-rating-what-is-a-great-antivirus-rating/ |
Our challenges are—not to be trite, but they’re sort of opportunities as well. By far the biggest single challenge we have it ARM’s defaults around information sharing. We have a belief—and I think it has proven to be true over the 30 plus years that ARM has been in business—that the level of information sharing has allowed ARM to be extraordinarily successful and innovative. There’s no backing up from that, as an ethos of the company.
But that represents a huge amount of challenge, because we give a tremendous amount of personal freedom for how people can access our information and our systems, as well as how they use our data internally—with our peers—but also externally, with our customers, who we’re very deeply embedded with.
We don’t sell a traditional product where they buy it, then we deliver it to them, and then we’re done. The vast majority of our customers spend years with us developing their own product, based on their own intellectual property.
So the level of information sharing that happens in a relationship like that is quite difficult to manage, to be candid.
My career before ARM was at Symantec. Symantec was a very different company—you know, more of a traditional software company. It also had 25,000 people who thought they knew more about security than I did. So that presented a unique challenge in terms of how we worked with that community.
But even at Symantec, I was thinking quite hard about how we influence behavior. And ultimately, what it comes down to for me, is that I view my job in information security as something between a sociologist and a marketing expert. We’re really trying to change people’s behavior in a moment. Not universally, not their personal ethos, but will they make the right decision in this moment, to do something that won’t create a security risk for us.
I label that “microtransactions.” We get these small moments in time where we have an opportunity to interact with and to influence behavior.
And I’ve been evolving that strategy with ARM in a very different place, in some respects—but trying to think about not just how we influence their behavior in that moment in time, but actually—can we change their ethos? Can we make responsible security decision-making part of everyone’s job?
That turns out to be a very hard problem. And the way we think about that at ARM—we have a centralized security team, ultimately security is my responsibility at ARM, but we very much rely on what we very much consider to be our “extended” security team, which is all of our employees.
Essentially, our view is that they can undo all of the good that we do behind them to try and compensate for all the risk that a normal human being creates.
But I think that one of the ways we look at this that is unique at ARM is that we very much take the “people are people” view on this. Not that they’re the weakest link, not that they don’t come with good intent, or they don’t want to be good at their job, or that they’re going to take that shortcut just to get that extra moment of productivity.
But actually, that everyone wants to do a good job, and our job is to arm them with both the knowledge and the tools to be able to keep themselves secure, rather than trying to secure around them.
At Tessian, we think that technology should not only keep people safe, but it should do it in a way that empowers them to do their best work. What did Tessian address for you that you couldn’t quite address with other platforms?
Coming from Symantec, I used all their technology extensively, and one of the best products Symantec has to offer is their DLP solution. I’m very familiar with that, and I would argue we had one of the more advanced installations in the world running internally at Symantec. So, I’m extremely familiar with the capability of those technologies.
What I learned in my time doing that, is that when used correctly in a finite environment, on a finite data set, that sort of solution can be very effective at keeping that data where it’s supposed to be and understanding movement in that ecosystem.
When you try to apply that broadly, it has all the same problems as everything else. You start to run into the inability of the DLP system to understand where that data is supposed to be—is this person supposed to have it, based on their role and their function? It’s not a smart technology like that, so you end up having to write these very complex rules that are hard to manage.
What I liked about Tessian is that it gave us an opportunity to use the machine learning in the background, to try and develop context about whether something that somebody was doing was either atypical—or maybe it’s not atypical, it’s part of a bad process, but by the very nature of the type of information they’re sending around and the characteristics of that information—we can get a sense of what they’re doing at whether it’s causing us risk.
So, it doesn’t require us to be completely prescriptive about what we’re doing. It allows us to learn, with the technology and with the people, about what normal patterns of behavior look like—and, therefore, intervene when it matters, and not every time another bell goes off. | https://www.tessian.com/blog/qa-with-tim-fitzgerald-chief-information-security-officer-at-arm/ |
The Security Studies Department at New Jersey City University is looking to hire two tenure-track faculty members to begin in Fall 2017. Since this is such short-notice, and not the typical academic job market season, we’re reaching out directly to see if any of your recent PhD graduates, or PhD candidates since we’re considering ABDs, are interested in applying.
Our department offers bachelor, masters & doctorate degree programs and the new faculty members can teach any level. Applicants ideally have practitioner experience and teaching interests in emergency management, emergency response, border or transportation security, risk management, policy development, resource management or security, information security, cyber security/defense, or a similar background.
One position is for a security studies generalist (the qualification about information assurance/cyber security can be ignored): https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=176513202&Title=Assistant%2FAssociate%20Professor%20Tenure-track%20Position%20Professional%20Security%20Studies
The other position is for cyber security (broadly defined): https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=176513192&Title=Assistant%2FAssociate%20Professor%20Tenure-track%20Position%20Information%20Assurance%2FCyber%20Security
And here’s a link to our department: http://www.njcu.edu/nationalsecurity | http://www.cse.uconn.edu/for-doctoral-students/cyber-security-faculty-positions-at-new-jersey-city-university/ |
Acer, the world’s second-largest PC vendor, signed a memo of understanding with Chinese IT company Founder Group on Thursday, aiming to expand its market share in the world’s most populous country.
Under the agreement, Acer and Founder will jointly design IT products including notebooks, netbooks and mobile Internet devices, like Acer’s newly announced LumiRead e-reader, for the Chinese market.
Acer’s forays into the U.S. and European markets were facilitated by mergers and acquisitions, but both Acer and Founder stressed that the agreement announced Thursday is only focused on “business cooperation” and will not involve an exchange of shares or affect the independence of either brand.
Mergers and acquisitions were the only possibility in the U.S. and Europe, but partnership opportunities are more diverse in China, said Gianfranco Lanci, Acer’s president and CEO, in response to questions about why Acer’s strategy was different in China than in other markets.
Acer intends to use Founder’s existing sales channels and after-sales service to expand in China. Acer said it had 5.9 percent share of the Chinese notebook market and 3.2 percent of its total PC market, ranking fifth and sixth in the segments, respectively. Founder also hopes to gain access to global markets through the partnership.
“In the next two years, China will be the largest PC market in the world and the fastest growing market in the world,” said Acer Chairman J.T. Wang.
Wang admitted Acer hasn’t been very successful in China, but said that support of the Chinese government and strategic partners like Founder, which has strong ties to the government and education sectors, would improve market share. Founder was established by Peking University, one of China’s most prestigious universities in 1986. The company has 24 regional distributors and 1,500 channel partners in China.
Wang spoke of improving relations between China and Taiwan and said that for Acer to compete with U.S. competitors, the company needs support in Mainland China. Taiwan and China separated in 1949 during a civil war between the Nationalist and Communist parties.
Acer and Founder intend to organize working groups in the next week to begin joint development work. | https://www.pcworld.com/article/506803/article-3164.html |
What a Locky Ransomware attack looks like Malware intentionally created by the U.S. National Security Agency to infect personal computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) cannot be detected by antivirus programs. The spyware, which infects a drive's firmware, can also produce a treasure trove of data for any government agency controlling the drives, according to Russian security software maker Kaspersky Lab. MORE ON CSO: How to spot a phishing emailKaspersky released a report this week saying that it had discovered the spyware on hard drives in personal computers from 30 countries, including the U.S. The company said the malware, known as Fanny, likely predated other NSA spyware, such as Stuxnet, and has likely been in use for nearly two decades. Kaspersky does not name the NSA in its report. Instead, it refers to those in charge of the spyware program as "the Equation group," noting that the same group was closely linked to Stuxnet. Stuxnet, which came to light in 2010, was a computer worm developed by the NSA to sabotage Iran's nuclear program. According to a report by Reuters, a former NSA employee "confirmed that the NSA had developed the prized technique of concealing spyware in hard drives, but said he did not know which spy efforts relied on it. "Kaspersky said the latest spyware was discovered on hard drives from more than a dozen major manufacturers, including Seagate, Maxtor (now a subsidiary of Seagate), Western Digital (WD), Toshiba, IBM and even SSD makers such as Micron and Samsung. "There is no way to understand whether your HDD is infected," Igor Soumenkov, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said in an email reply to Computerworld. "Once the hard drive gets infected with this malicious payload, it's impossible to scan its firmware." To put it simply: For most hard drives, there are functions to write into the hardware's firmware area, but there are no functions to read it back. Kaspersky The government agency identified by Kaspersky only as "The Equation Group", was likely using its cyber-espionage malware for nearly two decades.
"It means that we are practically blind, and cannot detect hard drives that have been infected by this malware," Soumenkov said. The Equation group used a variety of methods to spread its programs, including infecting USB sticks and CDs, as well as the Fanny computer worm. Fanny was "presumably" compiled in July 2008, Kaspersky's report stated, as it was first observed and blocked by the company in December of that year. Kaspersky's report stated that it's not known when the Equation group began its ascent into cyberespionage. Some of the earliest malware samples Kaspersky discovered were compiled in 2002, but some of the command and control (C&C) software was registered in August 2001."Other C&Cs used by the Equation group appear to have been registered as early as 1996, which could indicate this group has been active for almost two decades," Kaspersky's report stated. Hard drive maker WD said that prior to the release of Kaspersky's report, it had no knowledge of the NSA cyberespionage program."We take such threats very seriously. The integrity of our products and the security of our customers' data are of paramount importance to us," a WD spokesman wrote in an email reply to Computerworld. The WD spokesman said the company has not participated in or supported the development or deployment of cyberespionage technology by government entities, adding that "Western Digital has not provided its source code to government agencies.""We are in the process of reviewing the report from Kaspersky Labs and the technical data set forth within the report," the spokesman said. Seagate, the largest producers of hard disk drives, did not respond to a request for a comment on the malware or how its drives were infected. Perhaps the most powerful tool in the Equation group's arsenal, Kaspersky's report states, is a mysterious module known only by a cryptic name: "nls_933w.dll." Kaspersky LabThe worm allows the Equation group to reprogram the hard drive's firmware. "This is an astonishing technical accomplishment and is testament to the group's abilities," Kaspersky's report stated. Kaspersky's report said the company found personal computers in 30 countries infected with one or more of the spying programs, with the most infections seen in Iran, followed by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria. The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said. "During our research, we've only identified a few victims who were targeted by this module," Soumenkov said. "This indicates that it is probably only kept for the most valuable victims or for some very unusual circumstances."The spyware module itself is used only to deliver the customized firmware to the victim's hard drive, and someone deploying it would need to know special commands that will let a user communicate with a particular HDD hardware, which is vendor specific, Soumenkov said. Soumenkov said the most complex and expensive process in deploying the malicious worm is reprogramming an HDD's firmware. To do that, someone would need to first obtain the source code of all the major vendors' firmware, which would require having access to the fully proprietary information and internal documentation kept by drive manufacturers. Either that, "or to have abnormal skills to reverse engineer the firmware's code," Soumenkov said. "And they did it for more than 12 HDD brands!"
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Apple supplier Foxconn said an "incident" involving 2,000 workers erupted late Sunday night near a company manufacturing facility in China, as photos posted online showed cars turned over and store windows broken in what appeared to be a mass riot.
Foxconn, which is under scrutiny over worker conditions at its factories in the country, said the incident did not appear to be work-related.
The Taiwanese company said in a statement on Monday that the incident first started as a "personal dispute", and then escalated outside employee dorms near Foxconn factories in the Chinese city of Taiyuan. Local police arrived and brought the dispute under control by Monday morning at 3 a.m.
"According to police, some 40 individuals were taken to the hospital for medical attention and a number of individuals were arrested," Foxconn said. The company added the cause of the dispute is still under investigation, but said it appeared not to be "work-related", without offering specifics.
Posts from users on Chinese microblogs called the incident a riot, with video and pictures showing what appeared to be hundreds of Foxconn employees assembling in the night. Pictures posted online also showed the aftermath, with groups of police patrolling the area and cars flipped over.
Foxconn's manufacturing facility in Taiyuan employs 79,000 people, and builds components for cars and consumer electronics. Foxconn closed the factories on Monday, said company spokesman Simon Hsing, but the company could reopen the facilities on Tuesday, depending on progress made in the police investigation.
The company has seen increasing scrutiny over the company's working conditions in China, where it employs 1 million people. Earlier this year, workers reportedly staged a protest by threatening to jump off the roof of a building if Foxconn did not meet their compensation demands. Foxconn said the dispute was peacefully resolved. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/437244/mass_riot_erupts_foxconn_factory_china/ |
Sony this fall hopes to expand the popularity of its PlayStation brand with a new gaming platform aimed at mobile devices called PlayStation Mobile. At launch, the new mobile gaming platform will feature about 30 new “PlayStation-like” titles for Android devices. Similar to other PlayStation services, it will be based around a PSN ID and you will download new games from Sony’s PlayStation Store. Sony first announced PlayStation Mobile in 2011 as the PlayStation Suite.
But PlayStation Mobile won’t be for every Android device. Before a device can access PlayStation Mobile games it will have to be a part of Sony’s PlayStation Certified License program. Not surprisingly that list of devices is currently dominated by Sony brands, along with a few competing device manufacturers. HTC in June agreed to add PSM functionality to its One brand of smartphones, and Asus and WikiPad recently signed up for PlayStation Mobile.
Alongside the new PlayStation Mobile announcement there was also some bad news for fans of classic games. Once PlayStation Mobile launches, Sony will cease to offer PSone Classics, a collection of games built for the original PlayStation console, for PlayStation Certified devices. It appears Sony-branded devices will still have access to the older games because the company recently announced that the PS Vita would get access to PSone classics.
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The truth is, every business, regardless of industry, size, or infrastructure, requires a degree of network security solutions put in place so as to protect it from the constantly growing landscape of cyber threats in the business world today. However, today’s network architecture is quite complex and challenging and is faced with an environment that is always changing, where attackers are now using more sophisticated technology and are always on the lookout for vulnerabilities to exploit. The vulnerabilities are widespread across different areas or aspects of your business, ranging from data, devices, applications, users, and locations. What’s more, since your systems and computers are interconnected, when one user experiences network problems, it will affect everyone on the same network. And so, you stand to lose data, security data breaches, and other malicious attacks, all of which will have a negative impact on the running of your business.
Solutions to network problems need to be based on the latest technology, so as to ensure that your business is safe from any kind of malicious activity. Your IT network security engineers will first conduct a review of all the devices on your network, trying to identify all the various platforms they run. This will ensure you will know all the different access points on your network, which will also enable you to know the ones to update, and which ones not to. In addition, the security team needs to ensure that it eliminates all the vulnerabilities, by probably maintaining a stricter schedule for keeping up with security patches. Also, we can also change the programs and operating systems to make them easier to keep track of and manage. Last but not least, what you need to be able to overcome any threat to your network system is effective IT network Security management. If you can’t manage to have an in-house security team, you can outsource IT security services full time, and let an experienced team of experts manage your network systems. This way, any potential problem that might come up will be long spotted and dealt with before it becomes a bigger problem. | https://www.itsupportlondon365.com/network-security-kingston-upon-thames/southborough |
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Microsoft has introduced today Microsoft Security Experts, a new service category designed to address the unique security needs of customers across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, and more. The new Security Experts category expands the existing incident response and security advisory services and combines both human-lead services and automated intelligence to help businesses improve their security posture, compliance, and productivity.
As cybersecurity attacks have become even more sophisticated and impactful in recent months, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is actively tracking 250 unique threat actors and over 35 ransomware gangs. Microsoft emphasizes that it is important to provide organizations with expert guidance and technical tools that can help them proactively detect and mitigate ransomware attacks.
“With Security Experts, customers and partners gain access to the company’s leading technologies, threat intelligence and an unparalleled amount of security signal to detect threats more accurately, speed up response times, and keep your team informed,” the company explained.
Interestingly, this announcement follows Google’s planned $5.4 billion acquisition of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant. It is important to note that Microsoft also reportedly explored buying Mandiant, but the deal couldn’t be finalized. With this new Security Experts Service, the Redmond giant plans to bolster its cybersecurity capabilities and eventually attract more customers.
Microsoft has collaborated with its partners to launch its Security Experts solution with three new managed services. These services should help customers ease the burden of their existing security teams.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is the first managed service that will become generally available this Summer. The service is specifically designed for organizations that already have in-house security operations centers (SOCs). Microsoft’s experts will assist customers in detecting security threats across Office 365, endpoints, identity, and cloud-based apps.
According to Microsoft, organizations will be able to receive targeted attack alerts and expert advice regarding particular security incidents directly from the security portal. If you’re interested, you can sign up for the Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting public preview on this support page.
Microsoft also announced today that it’s rebranding some of its existing services, which will become a part of the Security Experts family. First up, the Microsoft Security Services for Incident Response solution provides support to organizations “before, during, and after” a security breach. Additionally, the Microsoft Security Services for Modernization offering can enable customers to embrace the zero-trust approach and switch to modern security solutions.
Going forward, Microsoft plans to make a new multi-million-dollar investment in its managed XDR partner community in 2023. This initiative will help partners meet the growing demand for managed detection and response (MDR) services, and you can learn more on Microsoft’s official blog post.
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Cybersecurity is a global concern that requires collaborative efforts and information sharing among nations. Austria recognizes the importance of international cooperation to address the evolving challenges in the cyberspace and strengthen its national cybersecurity. By collaborating with international partners, Austria aims to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities, exchange threat intelligence, and collectively respond to cyber threats. This article explores how Austria is collaborating with international partners to improve national cybersecurity.
Membership in International Organizations: Austria actively participates in various international organizations focused on cybersecurity, such as the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU). These memberships allow Austria to contribute to the development of cybersecurity standards, policies, and guidelines while benefiting from the expertise and knowledge of other member countries. Through active engagement, Austria stays updated on emerging cyber threats and collaborates on initiatives to enhance cybersecurity at both regional and global levels.
Information Sharing and Threat Intelligence: Austria recognizes the importance of timely and accurate threat intelligence sharing with international partners. It actively collaborates with cybersecurity organizations, such as the Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) of other countries and private sector entities, to exchange information on emerging cyber threats and attack patterns. By sharing actionable intelligence, Austria can detect and respond to threats more effectively, thereby protecting its critical infrastructure, government systems, and private sector networks.
Joint Cybersecurity Exercises and Drills: To enhance its incident response capabilities and strengthen cyber defenses, Austria participates in joint cybersecurity exercises and drills with international partners. These exercises simulate real-world cyber attacks and allow for the testing of incident response procedures, coordination among different entities, and identification of areas for improvement. By collaborating in these exercises, Austria gains valuable experience and builds strong relationships with international partners, fostering a culture of collaboration and preparedness.
Capacity Building and Technical Assistance: Austria actively engages in capacity-building initiatives and receives technical assistance from international partners to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities. Through training programs, workshops, and knowledge-sharing initiatives, Austria’s cybersecurity professionals acquire the necessary skills and expertise to effectively combat cyber threats. International partners provide support in areas such as threat intelligence analysis, incident response, and cybersecurity best practices, enabling Austria to strengthen its cybersecurity workforce and infrastructure.
Cross-Border Law Enforcement Cooperation: Cybercriminals operate across national boundaries, making cross-border law enforcement cooperation crucial in combating cybercrime. Austria collaborates with international law enforcement agencies, such as Europol and Interpol, to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals involved in cross-border cyber attacks. This collaboration allows for the exchange of information, joint investigations, and coordinated efforts to dismantle cybercriminal networks. By working together, Austria and its international partners contribute to the deterrence of cybercrime and the prosecution of offenders.
Participation in International Cybersecurity Conferences and Workshops: Austria actively participates in international cybersecurity conferences and workshops to share its experiences, learn from other countries, and foster collaboration. These events provide a platform for cybersecurity experts, policymakers, and industry leaders to discuss emerging trends, share best practices, and explore new technologies and strategies. By actively participating in these gatherings, Austria contributes to the global cybersecurity dialogue and strengthens its position as a trusted partner in the international cybersecurity community.
In conclusion, Austria recognizes the importance of international collaboration in addressing the complex and evolving challenges of cybersecurity. By actively engaging with international partners, Austria enhances its cybersecurity capabilities, strengthens its incident response and defense mechanisms, and contributes to the global fight against cyber threats. Through information sharing, joint exercises, capacity building, law enforcement cooperation, and participation in international events, Austria demonstrates its commitment to a secure cyberspace and a safer digital future.
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Welcome to Day 19 of Business Self-Defense from Microsoft Canada. Today, we look at working remotely (otherwise known as working-from-home) and how to make it more secure and successful for everyone in your business.
Working remotely. While some business owners and managers resist the model, it can benefit a small business greatly to enable employees to avoid the commute and just work from home securely instead.
Telework reports that businesses who enable employees to work remotely save an average of $20,000 per full-time employee, see productivity increase 22 percent, and reduce employee turnover by 50 percent.
Security first!
To make any of those benefits worthwhile, of course, you need great security. You need to keep your data, applications, devices, network, and users secure. And that’s not easy to do, unless you anticipate how people typically work.
If you expect people to go through complex security processes, they won’t. They’ll find some sort of work-around, whether it’s secure or not.
Keep it real
We all know what happens. A frustrated manager downloads a new app for team collaboration. Employees share materials on USB keys and lose them. Teams communicate casually about confidential or sensitive business topics in email. Someone sends an important contract to a personal email account to read later that night.
These scenarios may seem like just another day at the office, but they should frighten anyone running a business or corporate IT.
Small and medium-sized businesses who need a simple and cost-effective way to introduce a secure work-from-home solution should investigate Microsoft 365. Combining Office, Windows, mobility, and always-on security, Microsoft 365 provides everything a modern business needs to empower their people.
Purpose-built for business, Microsoft 365 gives today’s employees the mobility, access, and security they need to compete and win. | https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/en-ca/uncategorized/2019/05/19/what-an-upside-make-working-remotely-secure-successful/ |
Fenwick today announced that Michael Sussmann has joined the firm as a partner in its privacy and cybersecurity practice in Washington, DC.
Sussmann is an internationally recognized privacy, cybersecurity and national security attorney and a former federal cybercrime prosecutor. With over 25 years practicing in this field, he advises clients on a range of sophisticated and high-stakes matters, taking on unprecedented state-sponsored network intrusions and data breaches, sensitive government investigations, and other bet-the-company representations.
“We are thrilled to welcome Michael to our partnership,” said Fenwick Chair Richard Dickson. “His renowned privacy and data security expertise coupled with his deep experience in both the private and public sectors brings an unmatched resource to all of our clients.”
With each new advance in communications technology and data uses, clients trust Sussmann to help them navigate laws related to data collection, access and sharing, and the legal risks presented in an evolving landscape. He has conducted extensive privacy and cybersecurity reviews for Fortune 100 companies, represented them before the Department of Justice, FTC, state attorneys general, and other regulators, provided Congressional testimony, and litigated national security cases in federal court.
“The proliferation of privacy and cybersecurity risks and the increasing number of international regulations in these areas expose our clients to many complex and unprecedented issues around the protection and use of data,” added Tyler Newby, head of the firm's IP and complex litigation practice and partner in the privacy and cybersecurity practice. "Michael’s deep experience is a timely addition as our team continues to help clients navigate the constantly evolving challenges ahead.”
Earlier in his career, Sussmann spent 12 years in several positions within the DOJ. He joined the Department in 1993 as Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Criminal Division; he prosecuted white-collar and violent crimes at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia; and his government service concluded with his eight years in DOJ’s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section. Prior to that, he practiced in New York at a large firm.
“Fenwick’s reputation for excellence and its track record with some of the biggest global innovators made joining the firm a natural choice,” Sussmann said. “I am thrilled to team with such a respected group of partners and associates, including its impressive privacy and cybersecurity experts.”
Sussmann’s arrival reaffirms Fenwick’s continued investment in its regulatory and privacy and cybersecurity practices as well as the expansion of its Washington, DC office. In late 2021, trade and national security partner Melissa Duffy and antitrust partners Tom Ensign and Steve Albertson joined the firm and helped launch Fenwick’s DC office. In 2022, government contracts partners Joyce Tong Oelrich and Zohra Tejani joined the DC office, and the firm expanded its regulatory capabilities in California by welcoming Santa Monica-based healthcare regulatory partner Jennifer Yoo. Earlier this year, Fenwick welcomed trade and national security partner Rob Slack in DC, and last week corporate regulatory partner Heidi Lawson joined the firm in New York. | https://www.fenwick.com/insights/our-news/fenwick-strengthens-privacy-and-cybersecurity-practice-with-arrival-of-partner-michael-sussmann |
As a startup owner, it can sometimes feel impossible to get the attention of your target audience, especially in a competitive industry. When most people already have companies they trust, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to get them to notice a new company. Fortunately, there are plenty of solutions that can help your business make the most out of every opportunity.
You can utilise modern tech solutions to outpace the competitors, as success in the industry is all about working smarter. While a great work ethic can help, industry insight is often the key to success. Here are a few ways you can use modern tech solutions to outpace the competition.
1. Understanding which types of business software works best for your company
It’s one thing to know that you need business software to achieve success; it’s another story entirely to be aware of the tech solutions that suit your company the best. Depending on the industry, there will be some tech solutions unique to your business, but for the most part, it’s easy enough to look for top-tier solutions.
For example, just about every business needs the help of a data management platform, especially in a world where digital businesses are quickly outstripping their more traditional competitors. You’ll need to use modern tech solutions such as news API, which crawls the web for information from millions of sites that can be integrated into your company’s applications. There is limitless potential when it comes to software, and it’s up to you to figure out how it can fit your company based on its needs.
2.Taking advantage of remote onboarding
The onboarding process involves the hiring and training of employees, and remote onboarding allows such a process to occur for workers that don’t need to go to the office. In fact, with the help of cloud computing software, even company owners can run their businesses from the comfort of their homes. Remote onboarding is crucial, especially for new companies, as it allows you to run business processes without having to pay for an office space.
With remote onboarding and team management, your business could potentially flourish without your employees having to head to an office to get the job done. That said, the onboarding process can be delicate, so it’s a good idea to take your time and find the business software that works best for your company.
3.Pushing for automation
With business software solutions and remote onboarding, your company is well on its way to effective automation and optimisation. Automation is a relatively popular buzzword in the business sector, as it can help small businesses grow into an enterprise. The more you focus on automation, the easier it gets to optimise company processes. Examples of automation for small businesses include pricing automation and various types of inventory management services.
While small businesses might have a more challenging time experiencing success in a competitive environment, the above tips will help you develop a solid foundation and an effective roadmap for success. The good news about running a small business is you have many opportunities to outpace the competition.
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Anyone working in the UK healthcare industry understands the growing challenge the NHS and other organisations are having to balance – an ageing population, increasing ill health due to lifestyle and ever growing budget constraints.
This balancing act is a key driver behind NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens’ Five Year Forward Plan, which was published in 2014. And with the healthcare industry increasingly looking for ways to meet rising demands with fewer resources, digital solutions are becoming increasingly valuable.
From delivering primary care at scale to securing seven day services, digital solutions can help the Health sector meet the rising demands of citizens and deliver the government’s ‘digital by default’ strategy.
No-one understands this more than the Chief Clinical Information Officers in the NHS. As part of the team responsible for delivering effective IT infrastructures that can manage business intelligence for internal use and support and enable a Trust’s service delivery, understanding the key benefits of the latest digital solutions and how they can transform services is vital.
Understanding the Cloud
As we discussed in the first instalment of our blog series on Cloud in health, Cloud adoption rates in the UK public sector is continuing to grow as a result of the government’s Cloud First policy for public sector IT.
According to a recent Kable report ‘XaaS technologies in the UK Public Sector’, Cloud software and services will represent 3.8% of the circa £14.5bn public sector technology expenditure by 2018/19.
As part of a wider series on the benefits of Cloud computing, we take a look at how some NHS Trusts have used the Cloud to transform their services.
Testing innovative solutions quickly and cheaply
In 2015, Netflix – the global provider of streaming movies and TV series – added an estimated 1.8 million UK members according to Enders Analysis.
What makes the streaming provider so successful? It’s drive to innovate quickly and continuously.
In 2015, former cabinet minister Francis Maude referenced Netflix in a wider speech on the need for public sector organisations to improve their willingness to innovate, and earlier this year Government Digital Services executive director Stephen Foreshew-Cain stressed the importance of being bolder when it comes to digital.
Since 2015, the UK health sector has seen a rise in start-up ventures and NHS Trusts creating apps to help people improve service delivery – so much so that NHS England launched an apps library to help people find appropriate programmes to monitor their health.
However, while innovation can help deliver cost efficiencies, the process of trying innovative solutions is expensive for a lot of NHS organisations.
Finding ways to use technology such as the Cloud to test new solutions and processes at a lower cost would allow Trusts to try new projects more often. This then opens up the opportunity to explore new open source and enterprise technologies to the benefit of the Trust.
The Code4Health initiative, started by NHS England, is a key example of how innovation doesn’t have to be expensive.
One of the chief aims of the programme, which aims to connect health & social care practitioners with software developers, is enabling both the software and healthcare industries to better understand each other needs and requirements.
Using open source technology in the Cloud, the initiative allows developers to find new, innovative and economical ways to provide new healthcare solutions straight away without the need for on-prem technology or IT support.
To find out more about how the Code4Health programme are leveraging the Microsoft Cloud, click here.
Improving online services with better infrastructure
With the introduction of e-referrals, online medical services, such as computerised cognitive behavioural therapy, and a move towards online administration processes, the ability to deliver services effectively is vital.
As citizens’ digital engagements rise, more and more patients are using online services – in January 2015, NHS Choices alone reached an all-time-high figure of 52 million monthly visits (up from 43 million in January 2014) – and with greater use, the reputational and brand damage of a service disruption becomes more significant.
Getting the right digital infrastructure that can support services – as well as internal processes and data storage – is therefore key. Yet a lot of NHS organisations find it challenging to keep up with digital demands due to limited resources, IT staff or budget.
Finding a flexible system that allows users to access remotely, enables staff to update or fix online systems quickly and can be scaled up or down depending on traffic is one way to offset such resources limitations.
One such health organisation that has been able to transform their digital infrastructure is The East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub.
To find out more about how The East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub healthcare organization were able to leverage the benefits of the Microsoft Cloud, click here.
Reducing treatment delays by going mobile
While the NHS has been able to minimise treatment delays despite increasing budget pressures – in February 2016 half of patients waiting to receive treatment were seen within six weeks – ensuring timely, efficient and productive service delivery is increasingly challenging for NHS Trusts and organisations.
Indeed, according to recent NHS statistics the number of delayed days in a transfer of care alone had increased between February 2015 and February 2016.
Reducing delays across all areas of treatment in the NHS is a high priority not only for the Department for Health but for individual NHS Trusts looking to increase efficiency and improve patient treatment.
One such Trust is East Kent Hospitals University NHS, which has effectively reduced the treatment time in their renal department by developing a Cloud-first app that sends immediate alerts to key staff of a patient event while also providing a care management trail so the consultant or doctor is able to track who has treated the patient and ensure that they are directed to the best possible specialist care.
By sending such alerts, East Kent has not only reduced delays to informing consultants – who previously would have been updated following a ward round – but has also reduced the time taken to start any necessary treatment as referral to specialised treatment or care can be recommended remotely rather than waiting for a consultant.
“The earlier identification of those sick patients has led to earlier treatment, allowing them to have a prompt effective treatment in a timely manner”, says Allyson Wren, Clinical Application Lead – Vital PAC East Kent Hospitals University NHS.
To find out more about how East Kent Hospitals University NHS were able to leverage the benefits of the Microsoft Cloud in collaboration with Careflow, click here.
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Mobile antivirus security software provides a powerful layer of coverage against viruses, spyware, malware, and other malevolent software. It also allows you to take care of the many other security responsibilities that protect you online.
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McAfee Cellular Security is yet another excellent decision. It’s packed with features and costs $30 per year. Furthermore to anti virus protection, it includes a data breach monitor and data consumption tracker.
Kaspersky Mobile Antivirus offers nearly perfect spyware protection. It also has solid anti-theft features. However , it could lacking in system tune-up tools and a network scanning device.
AVG Malware has a significant user base and is also one of the most well-known Android malware apps that can be purchased. It has a performance-boosting feature and a fast cleaner.
The Kaspersky Cell Antivirus offers a free tier. You can try out the full rendition for 14 days and pay for this later.
Norton 360 for Mobile is usually an extensive mobile anti-virus application. It does not only works your device pertaining to malware, but it really checks your apps for every vulnerabilities. This helps to avoid personal information theft and fraud. If a suspicious web page is found, it will eventually block you from being able to view it. | https://zanotticanada.com/portable-antivirus-software/ |
Apple used to market their computers as being free from PC viruses, however, they have since quietly dropped this claim. It's essential that you have antivirus software MacBook installed on your computer at all times. Without a virus scanner, you are leaving your PC wide open to a whole host of nasty viruses that could cause damage and leave your personal information vulnerable.
Mac users are often quite proud of the fact that they think Apple OS X is secure and cannot be infected by computer viruses. This, unfortunately, is not true. There may be far more viruses that can infect Windows-based computers, but there are plenty that can wreak havoc with a Mac. It's risky to assume that an Apple can't get infected. Whether you use your Mac for business or pleasure, it's vital that you install a good antivirus for Mac. Virus scanners will protect your computer in numerous ways. They can scan all of the files on your PC looking for anything suspicious and then help to remove the danger. Most of the better Mac antivirus software scanners also include a resident real time shield. This runs all the time you use your computer and will automatically scan new files. This is an important part of the protection of your PC since it takes much less time than scanning the whole hard drive. Every time you download a new file from the Internet, it will be scanned before allowing you to run it. Virus scanners should regularly be updated to ensure that they can detect and remove the latest viruses to keep your PC secure. | http://www.antivirusmacapp.com/antivirus-software-macbook.html |
More a jack-of-all-trades role than a specific title, information security analysts keep people, organizations, and their data safe.
Though the title “information security analyst” — or the often synonymous cybersecurity analyst — might not sound impressive, they’re often the stalwart people working behind the scenes keeping companies, their clients, and their data safe.
“My friends always joke and call me Peter Parker; you know, just a normal guy by day, computer guy by night,” said David Pickett, a senior cybersecurity analyst at Zix.
The role of can vary wildly depending on the industry they serve and the specific needs of the organization. Despite this, it usually includes threat hunting, systems, and network maintenance, and working with both technical and business teams to ensure compliance to relevant standards.
“It’s a jack of all trades,” Pickett said of the role of , under which his title falls. “You can go anywhere from, say, an ethical hacker who tests vulnerabilities in a company system, all the way over to incident response, or forensic analyst.”
What’s in a Name? Information vs. Cybersecurity Analyst
Given the variety of needs that exist in this space, the role behaves as much as a field or type of role as it does a finite title. Someone holding the title of in the financial industry might look — and be called something — different from in the healthcare industry, for instance.
To add to the potential confusion, the terms “information security analyst” and “cybersecurity analyst” are frequently used interchangeably. When not used synonymously, “cybersecurity analyst” is treated as a subset of, or specialized title under, the overall umbrella of information security analyst. Basically, all cybersecurity analysts are information security analysts, but not all information security analysts are cybersecurity analysts.
“It’s like the difference between a comedy and a romantic comedy, or a horror [and] a drama horror.” He described his own role, which focuses mostly on identity and access management, as an information security position. Differences in titles often come down to what a company needs. “Whatever best suits their business,” he said.
Pickett pointed out that, while the industry does tend to use the terms interchangeably, he’s noticed the two titles are starting to diverge and become more targeted, particularly as universities are starting to offer specific degrees. In his experience “cybersecurity analyst” more often refers to those who focus on the external or online, while “information security analyst” more often deals with internal concerns.
“As the field has matured, I’ve seen those roles start to spread apart a little bit more and job titles are becoming more and more specific over time and geared towards certain things,” Pickett said.
No Day Is Typical When You’re an Information Security Analyst
With so much variety, there is no normal for information security analysts. For Tariq, most days involve meetings — a lot of meetings — around making sure security projects are moving forward.
“As the analyst, our job is business and the technical; we are the mitigators in between,” he said. “We are expected to have — I’m not going to say in-depth knowledge — but to know how everything is happening and we are responsible for making sure whatever roadblocks we have are mitigated or at least brought to others’ attention.”
A good day for Tariq is one where he communicates effectively to both teams and makes sure everyone understands how a project is moving forward and why. “Easier said than done,” he added.
Meetings with different teams also figure heavily in the life of Matt Bennett, a regional cybersecurity analyst at Fugro.
“An average day for me sees me working with teams all over the world,” Bennett said. “I work predominantly with the Asia-Pacific team, but I also work with the energy team or service line out of Houston.”
A large part of what he does is make sure Fugro meets client requirements and relevant legislation and meets compliance with data governance best practices and accreditations. Bennett also explained that much of what he does is looking for and managing internal vulnerabilities. This includes tasks like tracking down high-risk machines within the internal environment, checking servers, and what he calls “actual system hardening.” He also looks at keeping this up to date by eliminating outdated policies.
Take SSL certificates as an example, he said. “For a highly out-of-date transport certificate encryption, I would work to actually identify that policy still in place, and then I would look at how we eliminate that with the help of our actual infrastructure lead.”
Finding Vulnerabilities and Threat Hunting Is the Name of the Game
For Amy Moses — a security analyst at SpearTip and Tier 2 security operations center analyst at Uncomn — tackling vulnerabilities and active threat hunting are a big part of her days.
“[Threat hunting is] basically, you’re going out and you’re looking for the threats and how they get in prior to them getting into your system,” said Moses, who is also a member of Women in CyberSecurity (commonly known as WiCyS). For Pickett, active threat hunting is about 90 percent of his days. And he likes it that way.
“The job itself is unpredictable and that’s kind of what I thrive on,” he said. “I wake up in the morning and I’m like, ‘What is going to be the best attack of the day? What are they going to throw at us today?’ That’s what makes it interesting and — I think in my case — prevents burnout.” “It’s all about making that fortress around your organization stronger.”
Moses similarly shares an appreciation of the puzzle-like nature of countering bad actors, making the analyst part of her title fitting. When something malicious comes in, she said she wants to figure out what it is, how it got in and how she can stop it from happening.
Her passion for protecting people, especially those who can’t protect themselves, is what drew her to cybersecurity.
“I thought, ‘How can I help, say, the senior community? How can I get information to them to help them better protect themselves?’ Because there are so many times where seniors are getting taken advantage of and that makes me mad,” she said. “You’re kind of a warrior out there. You’re out there protecting other people and fighting off the bad guys. And it’s kind of exciting.”
Moses was not alone in describing the role of in good-versus-evil terms.
“The threat actors make a lot more money and they work whatever hours they want,” Pickett said. “And you’ve got the good guy who can’t lie, can’t steal, has good morals and ethics. Those are your security people.”
Pickett explained that if is doing their job right, “nobody will know; you’re kind of the unsung hero.”
But the role of protector comes with heavy responsibilities — and a lot of stress.
“We protect hospitals, schools, banks, critical infrastructure and if we don’t stop those attacks, you’re talking about a hospital being ransomware or something of that nature,” Pickett said. “So there is a lot of stress and just a big weight on your shoulders to make sure that you’re doing everything, at the end of the day, that you can.”
Leaving aside the potential tasks of , the role itself comes with a lot of access clearance across a company’s networks and data. They get the “keys to the kingdom,” as Pickett put it.
Information security analysts, according to Bennett, regularly interact with various teams across the organization and with managers all the way up through the organization’s highest levels “You’re not isolated,” he said. “You’re very much part of the business fabric, and your recommendations will make or cost a company.”
Bennett said this dynamic was one of the more rewarding elements of the role for him.
“You are able to challenge the norm,” he said, explaining that being allows one to present and make changes to the business that will have a tangible impact.
“You can go to management and say, ‘Hey, look, we need to do this because it’s going to cost your business X down the track,” Bennet said. It’s not for everyone, of course. He described it as a situation of high risk and high reward.
“If you’re after that role of both a challenge, a bit of stress, and a bit of hard work, it’s quite rewarding,” he said.
It’s in High Demand
The role of information security analysts is expected to grow rapidly in the coming years. According to projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the role will see 33 percent growth between 2020 and 2030, much faster than average. This growth represents an estimated 47,100 additional jobs under this title by 2030.
“The cybersecurity risk is going up by the minute,” Pickett said, specifically highlighting ransomware attacks and the increasingly well-funded nature of international ransomware gangs. He said it is obvious to him that there is a shortage of people filling those cybersecurity positions.
According to Tariq, the demand for information security analysts comes down to people’s growing reliance on digital technology and the constant evolution of that technology, opening up more opportunities for bad actors to exploit.
“Technology is growing faster than we can protect it,” Tariq said.
This constant evolution means real-world experience and certifications are highly valued in information security analysts. Information security analyst job postings often specify that a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is required, but list three to seven years of experience as a suitable replacement for a degree (or don’t mention academic requirements at all). On the other hand, certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP; Certified Information Systems Auditor, or CISA; and Certified Ethical Hacker, or CEH are often requested or required.
Moses got a master’s degree in computer science, having moved from the fashion industry and restarted her career in IT, but she said a master’s degree — or even a bachelor’s degree, in some cases — is not necessary for the industry, in her experience.
Pickett also said that, in his experience, most information security analysts start in other areas of IT work and come to the role as a result of experience and interest.
“Most people I know traditionally started out as a help desk or support tech role,” he said. “They’ve grown along the way and they’ve proven themselves. They’re hungry, they want to strive to professionally develop and that’s how they get there.”
“Security by nature is always changing; the vulnerabilities, the attacks, are changing daily, by the minute and second,” Pickett said. “You have to be a self-driven learner. You have to be that person who’s asking, ‘Why does this work the way it does?’”
Always being willing to ask questions is a big part of that constant need to learn and self-improve. Tariq said that this can be a challenge for more junior information security analysts.
“When I was new, I was afraid that any question I had, or if I didn’t understand something, I was going to look dumb,” he said. “You don’t want to do that; you can only succeed if you know. You can only succeed if you understand.
”Moses had similar advice, noting that feeling like an imposter is common for people in the information or cybersecurity industries.
“I find this with everybody I’ve come in contact with, regardless of experience or not,” she said. Another thing that everyone in the field knows is to look things up when you don’t know them, she added. “You look it up because there’s just so much stuff to know.”
Bennet echoed this theme, stressing that information security analysts must be honest about their knowledge and seek the advice of others.
“You’re never going to know everything about every system because they are, unfortunately, forever changing,” he said. “So as an analyst, I think the worst thing you can do is pretend you know. Always be honest with yourself and question, even if it’s a dumb question.”
Tariq also stressed the importance of information security analysts questioning and learning from the best teacher of all: mistakes. “You’re going to make mistakes because people make mistakes,” he said. “But it’s okay, the best thing to do is to own up to it. Own up to the mistakes and learn from them.”
It’s Not All About the Tech — Soft Skills Matter Too
While the need to constantly keep learning might come as no surprise — few roles or industries sell themselves on stagnation — the importance of soft skills for might.
“To be in cybersecurity, you do have to have a strong technical acumen, but also the ability to communicate with anybody, whether it’s a highly technical CTO versus my grandparents, let’s say,” said Pickett. “You’ve got to be able to change that conversation to who you’re trying to communicate with. You’ve got to be able to communicate well with others and put yourself in their shoes to sell them on, say, a new security control or educating them on risks, threats or vulnerabilities.”
Communication is key to working as role for Tariq too. “You communicate with your team, you communicate with your business, you communicate with your clients,” he said.
Tariq also said he wished he had known at the beginning of his career how much people matter to the job. “The people who you work with are the key to your success,” he said. “The technology will always be growing and the technology will always be changing, but the people who you work with are the ones that matter.”
Bennett also spoke about the importance of people as a key to success in role. It requires a lot of teamwork and team effort to be done right. He recommended finding allies, particularly on other teams, whose perspectives and experience you respect who can challenge you on issues.
“I think anybody that has a drive or a passion to protect others, or basically to protect their environment, should definitely go into this industry.” “Like if I make a recommendation before I go and talk about that recommendation, I will discuss that with the infrastructure lead and say, ‘Hey, look, I want to implement this. What do you think?’” he said.
In Bennett’s experience, this has given him perspectives on approaching implementation that he might not have thought of or made him aware of roadblocks to achieving a security goal he didn’t know about.
“You’re not just an advisor to them,” he said, particularly as a more senior information or cybersecurity analyst. “You are getting advice from other people as well because that is what will shape your best recommendation.”
Of course, it’s not just the people inside an organization that matter, but also people on the outside — those who are being served by your organization.
“I’ve always had a need to help people out, and I was tired of people getting scammed or getting taken advantage of,” said Moses of her motivations to get into cybersecurity and her role as an analyst. Bio: Kerry Halladay is a staff reporter covering data science and business intelligence. Kerry is the former managing editor of the Western Livestock Journal and has written for AgriLife Today. | https://www.wicys.org/what-is-an-information-security-analyst-what-do-they-do-kerry-halladay/ |
I found out that my domain cum2themax.com is originally listed here as a malware domain I don't know which f* guy/program has done this entry but it is for 100% a false identification ? There was never a malware on this server but some script has identified it as malware.
Ok, in fact of severall discuss about security hole in AT3 I have created some security files (static.php, backup.php, sync.php, ...) to identify any hack attack and maybe one robot was thinking with only "existing file" this site has malware *stuppid robot*
I know that I had a problem on another server/domains but surely without any effect to the domain cum2themax.com and other few domains which I have bought in March 2008. So each stuff before wasn't my work
After transfering the whole data to a new server I have created on it for the security different files like toplist/z/static.php (with the text output) as I was knowing from the other server this are attack files.
So I'm a little bit wondering about the second post where my domain is inside in a script If I'm not 357% secure that there was never a "iframe" on this static.php I would say - ok shit happens - but in other way I can't imagine how some f*****g guys can declare you with a minimum of information to blacklists
I only know that if the server is hacked you got this shit stuff to all of your domains even it is only a static html side. I have done a research for all domains which were based on the same server as cum2themax but I don't found any of that domains on any blacklist - only the cum2themax.
As about CJlog : Through them I found out there is a blacklist entry on your site. So after the deletion here I will inform them to delete it urgently but they are a little bit strange because the whole trader list there isn't correct because some of the blacklisted traders aren't in my list
Just an fyi...in our 'blacklist',all of the sites are always manually checked and verified, by 'hand' to say so,and there are no "automation robots" whatsoever...
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The WCry or WannaCry ransomware is wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers around the world including the giant Spanish telecom Telefonica and the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.
WCry is also known as WNCry, WannaCry, WanaCrypt0r or Wana Decrypt0r. It was found in early February 2017. It spread to a some computers in March, but now, this week has spread around the globe.
WCry will search for and encrypt all user files with the following extensions on all available drives: connected external drives, internal hard drives, connected USB flash drives, and network drives.
.der, .pfx, .key, .crt, .csr, .p12, .pem, .odt, .ott, .sxw, .stw, .uot, .3ds, .max, .3dm, .ods, .ots, .sxc, .stc, .dif, .slk, .wb2, .odp, .otp, .sxd, .std, .uop, .odg, .otg, .sxm, .mml, .lay, .lay6, .asc, .sqlite3, .sqlitedb, .sql, .accdb, .mdb, .db, .dbf, .odb, .frm, .myd, .myi, .ibd, .mdf, .ldf, .sln, .suo, .cs, .cpp, .pas, .asm, .js, .cmd, .bat, .ps1, .vbs, .vb, .pl, .dip, .dch, .sch, .brd, .jsp, .php, .asp, .rb, .java, .jar, .class, .sh, .mp3, .wav, .swf, .fla, .wmv, .mpg, .vob, .mpeg, .asf, .avi, .mov, .mp4, .3gp, .mkv, .3g2, .flv, .wma, .mid, .m3u, .m4u, .djvu, .svg, .ai, .psd, .nef, .tiff, .tif, .cgm, .raw, .gif, .png, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .vcd, .iso, .backup, .zip, .rar, .7z, .gz, .tgz, .tar, .bak, .tbk, .bz2, .PAQ, .ARC, .aes, .gpg, .vmx, .vmdk, .vdi, .sldm, .sldx, .sti, .sxi, .602, .hwp, .snt, .onetoc2, .dwg, .pdf, .wk1, .wks, .123, .rtf, .csv, .txt, .vsdx, .vsd, .edb, .eml, .msg, .ost, .pst, .potm, .potx, .ppam, .ppsx, .ppsm, .pps, .pot, .pptm, .pptx, .ppt, .xltm, .xltx, .xlc, .xlm, .xlt, .xlw, .xlsb, .xlsm, .xlsx, .xls, .dotx, .dotm, .dot, .docm, .docb, .docx, .doc, .c, .h
Once the files are encrypted, the user will have to pay $300 (or more) to get access to their files. As of now, there is no known free decryptor available for WCry. Infected computer will display this warning:
WCry will charge those infected $300 in Bitcoin to for the decryption key to decrypt their files if the ransom of $300 is not paid in 3 days, it will be doubled. If it is not paid in 7 days, compromised users will not be able to recover their files.
We have previously warned users of Windows XP that after Microsoft ended support there would be no more security patches or updates from Microsoft. We also warned that continuing to use Windows XP would eventually expose users to these kinds of attacks and there would be no defense against them. Outdated/unpatched versions of Windows allowed WCry to spread to tens of thousands of computers and cause hospitals to turn patients away and large companies to shut off their computer systems for the weekend. Since legitimate antivirus developers do not make antivirus programs for outdated, unpatched operating systems, there is no way to protect those systems from events like WCry ransomware. Because so many business are still using unsupported versions – WCry spread to tens of thousands of computers in over 100 countries, some countries were forced to shut down their computers for the weekend. It is so bad that Microsoft, in an unprecedented move, issued emergency patches for 3 unsupported versions of Windows: Windows XP, Windows 8, and Microsoft Server 2003 – Windows 10 was never vulnerable to this ransomware:
A day after a ransomware worm infected 75,000 machines in 100 countries, Microsoft is taking the highly unusual step of issuing patches that immunize Windows XP, 8, and Server 2003. These are operating systems the company stopped supporting as many as three years ago…
The moves came after attackers on Friday used a recently leaked attack tool developed by the National Security Agency to virally spread ransomware known as “WCry” or “WannaCrypt.” Within hours, computer systems around the world were crippled, prompting hospitals to turn away patients while telecoms, banks, and companies such as FedEx were forced to turn off computers for the weekend.
The chaos surprised many security watchers because Microsoft issued an update in March that patched the underlying vulnerability in Windows 7 and most other supported versions of Windows. (Windows 10 was never vulnerable.)…
From Ars Technica
Our advice: Keep your files backed up and remember Windows updates are important. Always keep your computer updated and do not turn off Windows Updates, Microsoft patched the vulnerability that WCry uses to encrypt files on Windows 7 computers over two months ago, Windows 10 was never at risk. And use an antivirus / anti-malware that will actually protect you from a wide array of threats. We recommend Emsisoft.
We’ve been recommending Emsisoft for over 3 years. We have found it to be best protection and, as usual, Emsisoft was right on top of the WCry epidemic. Those of you who are using Emsisoft are protected from this ransomware by Emsisoft’s Behavior Blocker. It will show you this warning if Emsisoft detects WCry trying to install on your computer.
All Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 users who have Emsisoft installed have this extra layer of protection.
We recommend that you keep good backups, refrain from clicking links in strange or spam emails and be wary while on the Internet. Make sure Windows Update is on and working, and if you don’t have Emsisoft, you try it free for 30 days. If you want to buy a one-year license, we’ll even install it for you free.
Want to know more about WCry ransomware?
According to information we have received from Emsisoft…
WCry is primarily spreading via the leaked NSA exploits that the Shadow Brokers group released recently. More specifically, French researcher Kaffine was the first to suspect that WCry was being spread via the ETERNALBLUE exploit…
ETERNALBLUE exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft SMBv1 protocol, allowing an attacker to take control over systems which…
… WCry ransomware uses a combination of RSA and AES-128-CBC to encrypt the victim’s data. To facilitate this process, is uses the Windows CryptoAPI for RSA, but a custom implementation for the AES encryption.
Interestingly, the encryption routine is stored in a separate component within the t.wnry file, and is itself encrypted using the same method used by the ransomware to encrypt user files. This was likely done to make the malware analysis more difficult. The module is loaded into memory using a custom loader and executed from there, without ever being written to the victim’s disk unencrypted.
When WCry arrives on a system, it will first import a hardcoded private RSA key that is used to decrypt the file encryption component stored within “t.wnry”. Once done, the ransomware will generate a new private RSA key. That RSA key is then submitted to the malware’s command and control server and a copy of the generated public key is stored on the system…
BE SAFE!
Make sure you are up-to-date with Windows Updates. Keep good backups, And use Emsisoft Anti-Malware – it’s been our number one recommended antivirus/antimalware for over 3 years. Now you can see why we trust the software and the great people behind it.
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Thank you for this very informative piece.
I can always count on you to clearly explain these things and keep us up to date.
It is good to know that my Emsisoft program protects against this terrible problem.
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We’re making cybersecurity training fun with today’s episode, which is all about gamification! Jessica Gulick of Katczy discusses the Wicked6 Cyber Games, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu, and the ways in which cyber games could rise to the ranks of other televised esports.
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[00:00:00] CM: Today on Cyber Work, I speak to Jessica Gulick of Katzcy about the gamification of security and security awareness training, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu and the ways in which cyber games could be the next esports. That’s all today on Cyber Work.
Also, let’s talk about our new hands-on training series titled Cyber Work Applied. Tune in as expert infosec instructors and industry practitioners teach you a new cybersecurity skill then show you how that skill applies to real world scenarios. You’ll learn how to carry out different cyber attacks, practice using common cyber security tools, follow along with walkthroughs of how major breaches occurred and more. Best of all, it’s free. Go to infosecinstitute.com/learn or check out the link in the description and get started with hands-on training in a fun environment. It’s a new way to learn crucial cyber security skills and keep the skills you have relevant. that’s infosecinstitute.com/ learn.
And now, on with the show.
[00:00:58] CM: Welcome to this week’s episode of the Cyber Work with Infosec podcast. Each week we talk with a different industry thought leader about cyber security trends, the way those trends affect the work of infosec professionals while offering tips for breaking in or moving up the ladder in the cyber security industry. Jessica Gulick is CEO of Katzcy, a woman-owned growth firm specializing in cybersecurity marketing and cyber games. She’s also president of the board at the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to advancing women in cyber careers. Jessica is a 20-year veteran in the cybersecurity industry and a CISSP.
So with the recent announcement that infosec has partnered with Chooseco to create a choose your own adventures branded security awareness training program, very exciting, we’re aiming to speak with some guests about the concept of gamification in security and security awareness training. With Jessica’s involvement in the Wicked6 Cyber Games tournament in Las Vegas and the Cyber Carnival of Games for Cyber Security Awareness Month, Jessica certainly knows how to move beyond the superficial trappings of what we think of as gamification into creating programs that engage in the way that only brain stretching games can. So let’s get into it. Jessica, welcome to Cyber Work.
[00:02:08] JG: Thank you. I’m very honored to be here.
[00:02:11] CM: I appreciate that. So we always like to start with a bit of an origin story question. So how did you first get involved or interested in cybersecurity? What was the initial attraction and what was the first thing you did once you learned about it?
[00:02:25] JG: So my story in cybersecurity really started a few days after 9/11, believe it or not.
[00:02:29] CM: Okay.
[00:02:31] JG: We had just moved to D.C. My husband had a job up here. And I was able to get a job for a contracting firm supporting the State Department. So if you imagine, I had just gotten my bachelor’s, fresh out of school, first real job if you will in security and was working for what was IRM at the State Department doing database work. Creating a vulnerability database and then training people that were going out to the consulates and the embassies on how to do IT contingency planning. So that’s kind of where my start was.
I would say what I love most is that I was supporting a mission. At the time I had one kid. I had another kid on the way, and it was just great to know that the time away from family was worth it because I was helping protect others.
[00:03:26] CM: Right. Okay. So I mean, moving from there, it seems like you went through a series of sort of threat intelligence and related positions before working for ISC-squared and others. Can you talk about from beyond that to your business journey? Like what were some of the milestones that you remember that brought you to where you are now? Whether it’s projects you completed or skills you learned or positions held or what have you.
[00:03:49] JG: Yeah. So I would say from State Department, which really I was a dedicated contractor on site if you will. I moved to another contracting firm, SAIC, and that allowed me to support multiple different federal clients and commercial bank clients that were integrated with the federal clients. So what we call trusted agents. My work turned to be more around certification. I was still doing a lot of performance metrics and assessments in security, but it was a great opportunity there because I was able to contribute to a number of the NIST special publications, right? The standards around security and the lifecycle, et cetera. And I got to work with a fabulous team of folks. I was project manager, program manager if you will, over about 34 security professionals at the time. A mixture of penetration testing, forensics, policy, et cetera. And that was just a really great time to give me a full experience across different clients and what was going on in the market.
My world changed though. Somebody else’s world took a negative turn if you will, and I was asked to step in and take over marketing for cybersecurity at SAIC. There was a huge step. I hadn’t done it. All I had was my MBA at that point in terms of experience and doing some sales for my own work. And what we ended up doing was taking a very thought leadership role to our marketing and being known for something called MDC-3 at the time, which was the Maryland Cyber Challenge and Competition.
There’s a group of folks that I took part with that we really tried to drive home cyber competition, cyber education, et cetera, right in one regional space, right? The same time we were supporting something called Cyber Patriot, which is a well-known high school cyber competition. We are part of the initial team to start that. And my role there was really on marketing and oversight of some of the event activities, et cetera. So there was a larger team at play. So that was really critical to my career because it put me from doing hands-on certification and accreditation or managing a team, doing forensics and penetration testing, into the marketing world and into the world from a technical standpoint, right? We were doing cyber games and we took it to the U.K., and Utah, and Colorado and got to really experiment with high school, college and professional games.
From there, I kind of took another turn in my career. I accepted a position as a global CMO, a chief marketing officer for a startup. We had a new product that we were taking that first started in telecommunications and we were taking it to other industries. And I was able to take a leadership role in starting a new market segment that we all now call SOAR, security, orchestration, automation and reporting. We were one of the first ones during Automate or Die, in RSA, if we were there.
[00:06:53] CM: Okay. Yeah.
[00:06:54] CM: Yeah. So it was a great experience, a great team. But again, another turn, and then I found myself running my own business, Katzcy, which was fun.
[00:07:05] CM: Yeah, can we talk – Oh yeah.
[00:07:08] JG: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:07:10] CM: Can we talk about your day-to-day job as CEO of Katzcy? Like what type of tasks do you do every day? All of our listeners tend to think like, “Ooh, I would like to be a CEO someday. I’d like to start my own company.” Like what is the actual nuts and bolts of what you do with Katzcy and what is what is Katzcy about?
[00:07:28] JG: So Katzcy is a growth company, number one. We help grow startups and small businesses in cybersecurity and IT, but we also help grow professionals through cyber games and events. And it’s different being an entrepreneur. It changed my life. It changed the way I look at things. When all the responsibility is on your shoulder, it can be life changing. But I love it. I do.
So the hours aren’t your typical hours. They’re not nine to five. It’s kind of constant. In terms of everyday tasks, it could be anything from payroll, to sales, to getting in and actually doing strategy work for clients on how do you position this product or this service. All the way to how are we going to run games and what do the players want and how do we set up this tournament and which partners do we want to bring involved? What I love is that it changes every day.
And the cool part is being your own CEO if you will, having your own company, you get to decide who you work with. And I love working with passionate people about cybersecurity. And so that’s probably the best part.
[00:08:41] CM: Nice. What types of work problems keep you up at 3 a.m. or wake you up in the middle of the night at 3 a.m.? Like what are like the stressors or the things that – [00:08:53] JG: So, it’s different, right? Because I remember the days working in cybersecurity, what was waking me up was there’s a pen test going on at night out in California. What are they going to break? What’s going to happen? And I was constantly on-call for things like that whenever it had to be escalated. But now, it’s really about trying to work out problems in your head, right? Because you’re in meetings all day long. So really the only time your brain shuts down can really think through things is at night.
So let’s see. Last night I was thinking through – We had this big launch for the company called playcyber.com and we’re trying to figure out how we’re going to come up with some amazing games throughout the year. And it’s funny, one of the challenges I think the market has and what I’m kind of grappling right now in terms of workforce is there’s a lot of discussion around pipeline, Chris, and everybody knows it’s important to try to push more people into cybersecurity jobs. But one of the things not being as explored as much I would say is the fact that there’s burnout, right? In our community, our workforce, cybersecurity, there’s a huge amount of burnout, and what we have is these brilliant cybersecurity people that go through college. They get their careers and they’re excited and they’re passionate about cybersecurity, right? And then they get locked into a position either at a SOC or working for a company. And all of a sudden boredom of mundane tasks and, “Am I really helping anybody? Am I just clocking hours?” That really kind of sets in.
And so the question becomes how do we spark those individuals? Give them an ignition? Give them some kind of re-spark into cybersecurity. And I know that there’s an answer with cyber games, but you don’t know how to get it so that corporations really can really appreciate the value of cyber games. So that’s something I’m constantly thinking through. And last night I was up at 3 a.m. really kind of thinking through specifically what can I do to help contribute to that problem or contribute to the problem. Help solve that problem.
[00:10:56] CM: Help solve the problem, yeah. So to that end, when I was thinking – As soon as you said burnout, my first thought was the opposite. Apparently I was wrong. But thinking in terms of people burning out, you hear the stories about information and cybersecurity moves so quickly that within six months half of what you know is obsolete and you’re having to constantly learn new things. But there’s there’s a give and take between that, as you say, and you’re just doing the same repetitive tasks every day. You’re reading the log files. You’re doing this. You’re doing basic pen tests or whatever. Are those two things in tandem or would people actually prefer having to learn sort of all these new sort of updates, security and technology?
[00:11:43] JG: Well, I think they feel like they have to learn, but they don’t have a way to learn. [00:11:45] CM: Okay. Yeah.
[00:11:47] JG: I mean if you look at certifications right now on the market, you’re really dropping 5, 10, 15k. If you’re lucky, your company is paying for it, right? But even if they’re paying for it, it’s going to take you weeks, months to study. And sometimes you need that and that’s important. But sometimes you just need to like learn from others and have quick tactics and such. So I think that’s where we can really start talking about unravelling it.
It’s funny, one of the statistics that – As you know, I’m very much dedicated and passionate about women in cybersecurity.
[00:12:22] CM: Yes.
[00:12:24] JG: Do you recall one of the statistics that we looked at where it was like for four years where you remained at around 10% of the population in cybersecurity being women. And a lot of people say we got to get that number up, et cetera. But again, the interesting fact about that is why do we go stagnant? And the reason why is because more women were leaving the field than we’re entering it. So we had all these pipeline things, pushing women into cyber. And you get to that mid-level and you’re burnt out for a number of different reasons. And so women were leaving the field. And that was a major issue. I think we’re starting to turn the curve on that and with a lot of different programs that Cyberjutsu is part of as well as other organizations.
[00:13:11] CM: Cool. Yeah, I want to get back in and deep dive into Cyberjutsu and some of that stuff in a bit. I want to turn us back towards gamification and security, like learning games and so forth. So I think we all know gamification is one of those terms like AI and machine learning that can signify something really exciting or can just as easily be a meaningless buzzword uttered to appear at top of trends. So it’s something that if applied well can make ideas stick in practical ways. So can you tell me about your relationship to gamification as a way of making security ideas stick? What are your guiding principles in using gamified study and training?
[00:14:04] JG: I don’t actually believe that. I believe cybersecurity is different. It’s fundamentally different. We have good guys and we have bad guys. We have bad actors. We have defenders. And the beauty of that is that means that cybersecurity is a trade craft, right? It’s an art form and it’s very much like a sport. And so one of the guiding principles that I have when it comes to gamification is cybersecurity is a sport. It requires hands-on practice. We’re talking about interactive learning with others as a team or an individual. And one of the cool parts is that competition we have found builds the best through games, through interactions, whether it’s planting flags, or going red team versus blue team, or solving puzzles. What you’re doing is you’re using competition to build the best, both the best in individuals, in tactics, in community and in teams. And it’s very rare.
If you look at something like accounting or human resource or, I don’t know, plumbing, right? Cybersecurity is fundamentally different because of these principles, right? We can use competition not just to better ourselves, but hey, to also score ourselves and to differentiate ourselves for jobs. And it has a really exciting piece of it. Now how is that different than gamification, right? Because gamification, like you said, is a big term. It’s like saying AI. It’s how you apply it.
What I would say is that when you look at gamifications for losing weight or for stop smoking or something like that, right? It’s all about points and making it fun and all that great stuff. The thing about cybersecurity is it’s a difference from having a junior analyst go from just applying controls and going through a manual process if you will, to an analyst being able to see a security professional being able to see an attack is occurring. Here’s what the attacker is doing and what their motives are. Here’s what my strategy is to defend against it. So now I have a strategist, right? You don’t teach that in school, and that’s part of the problem if you’re trying to break into the cybersecurity market and you’re coming out with a college degree in cybersecurity.
We all kind of know, it takes about five to seven years to really get acclimated in the space and you’re your stuff, because it’s so much of just living the life on the job training. There’s studies out there, Chris, that show that through games and competitions and tournaments in cybersecurity through doing CTFs, capture the flags, we can actually decrease that time to value for that professional to two to three years, if not less than that if they start, let’s say, in high school. And the reason is because you’re experiencing it, right? You’re not just experiencing it, but you’re also doing it with others.
So think about our kids nowadays, right? What are they doing? They’re playing games but they’re also watching other people play games.
[00:17:26] CM: Yes. Yeah.
[00:17:27] JG: Right? So they’re learning that way. And in fact I think it was two or three years ago now, the National High School Association recognized esports as an athletic program, and that opened up scholarships, et cetera. So I would contend that cyber security, CTFs, and the future of gaming in cybersecurity is going to go towards esports because that’s why not? Let’s have some scholarships there. Let’s teach kids how to work together as a team.
Because, interesting, going back to my days when I had security professionals reporting to me as part of a security program, one of the tactics that from an HR recruiting standpoint that we would utilize is we would recruit in groups of two or three. And the reason is because real cyber security is teamwork, right? It takes a team dynamic. It takes communication and trust. And it’s very rare that you have a sole pen tester, right? Usually you have a team of three or four pen testers depending on the size of the network go out and they all bring different skills. And what they do is that best athlete approach, depending on what the tactic there is. And that allows them to take advantage of every slight modification or opportunity they have because they only get one opportunity before the system resets and they lose that opportunity to attack and find the vulnerability.
So my point is that if we can teach games, cybersecurity games to high school, college and professionals, we can help with that teamwork dynamic and really bring strategy into games, which is way more than points or emojis or fun little things.
[00:19:11] CM: Yeah. I mean can you talk a little bit about it? For people who are trying to design or choose programs that are gamified, like how do you sort of move past those trappings of badges and point systems and leaderboards and stuff and sort of come to something that – What are the guiding principles in terms of like designing or choosing or getting your employees on board with such a thing?
[00:19:36] JG: I think it has to do with – One of the things is understand how you’re – So there’s really, in cyber security, the way I look at it is there’s really like two kinds of games. You have security awareness, which is really about teaching security principles to non-security people, right? And then you have cybersecurity training and education, which is about cultivating security professionals with more skills and knowledge and capability.
So in terms of security awareness, you really got to think about your diversity of your player set, right? You’re going to have older people that perhaps aren’t really into games, right? You’re going to have younger people that are more into games than they are into the knowledge piece of it. You’re going to want to have a little mix of both and know who you’re targeting. Some people are going to want to play alone. Some are going to want to play as a cohort. But you kind of need to understand that dynamic and make it very simple, right? Very engaging and relevant to them in terms that are very sticky. So it’s applying marketing principles, which is nice.
Now on the other hand, when you own security professionals training and education, I really think that understanding who, again, your target is for the player, what you’re trying to accomplish, but also working – There’s a lot of wonderful people out there doing some really cool programs. Take NIST, NICE, which is really dedicated to cybersecurity workforce, right? You can look at their workforce framework. If you’re a game out there or you’re gamifying training in cybersecurity, if you’re not mapping to them, then you’re not really doing cybersecurity education. Education and training really needs to align with the workforce framework so that we can all understand what skills you’re trying to teach, which is one critical piece. And then the other critical piece is having that output back to the user, the player, so they know what is it that they just learned and how does this apply to me as an individual, my resume, my ability to sell myself to a company of my ability to contribute as a better security professional. So I said that’s kind of pieces of it.
I think the other thing to keep in mind is these things are hard. When you look at esports and games, whether you’re playing Battle Royale or any of those out in the market, they have huge development teams. That are constantly building environments that are engaging and they’re freshening it up. They’re keeping it as fresh as they can on a daily basis. And it’s huge and it’s hard, because people are demanding right. They want instant gratification and they want it to change and they want it to be cool. I wouldn’t let that stop you, but just keep that in mind when you’re trying to come up with your development style and approach.
[00:22:31] CM: Yeah, okay. So to sort of move it in a different direction, obviously cybersecurity is a serious business. And many organizations take that to heart when it comes to employee training. But that might make things hard for a security or training manager to “sell” a gamified learning environment to leadership or decision makers who might see it as maybe like frivolous or something like that in the circumstance. How would you make the case for gamified learning over more traditional training experiences or a combination of the two?
[00:23:02] JG: I think it goes back to something I said earlier, and that is the experience piece of it. It goes back to that major principle that says cybersecurity is different, right? And the hands-on piece is really where we need to get to. It’s not enough to sit in a classroom doing a boot camp where somebody is just teaching you, right? You’ve got to be able to apply it. Now that applying is difficult, right? This is why so many security professionals I know, they have a network setup in their house that they can break apart and do stuff on. And that’s a typical kind of thing.
Well here’s the thing. You’ve got work eight to ten hours a day, then you’ve got family and you’ve got other things that are work-life balance if you will. It’s very difficult. Now layer on top of that – It’s not like the olden days. If you start trying your hacking skills on the internet, you’re going to get in trouble.
[00:24:05] CM: Yeah. Right. Right.
[00:24:05] JG: There’s no safe place for you to play, right? And you can say, “Okay, there’s cloud environments, et cetera. Okay, but I need a little bit more structure than that,” right? If employers really want to have the strength that they need to provide game environments and CTFs for their security professionals. Here’s another little tidbit that I personally learned and I would share if any companies are out there listening and trying to say, “Is this really worth it or not?” I used to manage a team, like I said, and we had pen testers. And we’re a large government contracting firm. So a lot of times what will happen is somebody on your team will get a higher paying job somewhere else, right? And this individual on the team came up to me and said, “I want to move to this other contract. It’s going to put me on site with this client and I get more money,” right? And I’m like, “In the long run, you won’t,” and they didn’t believe me and they left. And this is why we do third-party testing as well.
What happens is when you have a security individual working with the same client day-in and day-out, all they see is that environment. They don’t get to see live stuff they. Don’t get to see other environments. They don’t get to see um other threats or other approaches or anything. And you get almost this think tank mentality, which actually dulls your skills, your awareness, and it’s very hard. Very hard to stay abreast of what’s happening in our very dynamic space, which is why they like third-party pen testers, right? You can have these very sharp, brilliant pen testers or adversary emulation experts that now go from environment to environment to environment. They’re seeing everything and they’re doing things constantly to sharpen their skills and their awareness. That cultivates a different individual that gets higher pay, is more engaged and has more value to a company. So I would say, “Okay. So either outsource cybersecurity or provide your security professionals a way where they can sharpen their skills in a safe environment that allows them to hack.”
And that was a big thing, Chris. If you don’t mind, we had a report. We did a report where we interviewed like 27 experts in the field a couple of years ago. And this was all about cybersecurity games. And we interviewed college teachers, professors. We interviewed CSOs. We interviewed recruiters, and we interviewed players. And we took a look and said, “Why are games really taking – Evolving more?” And there was a distinct problem that we had in the space. And that was when you look at high school and colleges, they want to teach IT security, right? They want to teach this is how you harden. These are just practical things.” So when they graduate, that’s all they know.
The problem is when you go to the CSO and the recruit of the CSO wants, “I want somebody who’s broken something. I want them to understand the dynamics of an attack. What does it look like? How does things happen?” And when I go back to the college, teach the high school teachers and the college professors, they’re like, “No, we don’t teach hacking,” right?
I don’t know how many high schools in Maryland we talked to in the first years of MDC-3 where the teachers like, “Why are you asking our kids to learn to hack?” And it comes down to they have to understand how to break things, right? How to take things apart right in order for them to really understand how to make it stronger. So that was a major issue that we had.
And then you had the recruiters that we talked to, and the problem with the recruiters were just how do I know, if Chris and you are on the same team and you guys get first place, how do I know which one did what? Are you really just as good as Chris? Are you left? Did he pull the weight? How do I know? And how do I use the results of your game to really help say that to my hiring manager if you will? And so there was a problem there too
And so I think we’re getting around that. I think people are starting to understand more of the value. I think they’re starting to understand not be as afraid of hacking. But the only way to get around all of that is more games and more safe environments to allow people to do more hacking.
[00:28:43] CM: Perfect. I mean that leads right into my next question here. I wanted to – For those of us who couldn’t attend and want to live vicariously through it, can you tell us about the Wicked6 Cyber Games Tournament and the Cyber Carnival Program? Like what types of games and challenges and training were people taking part in?
[00:28:58] JG: Absolutely. So you can actually go to wicked6.com or you can find it on YouTube channel if you do like Wicket6 Cyber Games, you can look at it. We did a live streaming of the event. I think it’s like five hours long, but you can kind of go through it and see what’s happening. So Wicked6 is put on by the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu, right? That 501(c)(3) that I set on the board for. And Katzcy is the marketing firm that runs the event. But it’s primarily a fundraiser helping fund women and girls camp, cyber camps if you will throughout the year.
And so what we did was we tried to really touch into the fun the, sexiness of cyber competitions. We partnered with Circadence. We had lots of wonderful sponsors like Microsoft and Uber and many, many more. We had a wonderful advisory board as well. And we opened it up for qualifications. We think we had something like 21 colleges, all types, all types of colleges, community colleges, universities, master programs, et cetera. We just said, “If you’re a school, if you’re a full-time student, you qualify.”
And they went through a qualification, online qualification process where we had games that they had to pass and get scores on. Then we got it down to the Wicked6, right? The six top colleges. And we brought them to the HyperX Arena. So the HyperX Arena is awesome, right? It’s right there in the Luxor in Las Vegas. It’s got stadium seating, a beautiful stage. You’ve got the gamer chairs. You’ve got insights on what’s happening on the screen. We have the back room like ESPN kind of show going on. We have shoutcasters talking about what’s the play. Who are the players? What are the coaches? Et cetera. We kind of have about a four or five-hour program that really takes them through technical challenges as a team, policy challenges as a team and they continue to score against each other. And then we come up with a final. And it’s kind of like college football, right? Everybody has their favorite team.
[00:31:06] CM: Cheering sections.
[00:31:08] JG: Yeah. Yeah. Women’s Society is Cyberjutsu is obviously focused on women, but Wicked6 is a co-ed thing, right? We do make a requirement. You’ve got to have a woman who’s actively playing at all times so that we can have that diversity piece to it. But it’s a fabulous experience. Hats off to Circadians. They did a wonderful job. Here’s how they gameified it that makes it exciting, is they started off with a video that really sets the mission, right? Understanding what’s the situation you’re in. And then they take them through a number of puzzles and challenges, et cetera, that follow that mission that is either you’re securing a SCADA system or you’re a financial system or whichever. You take them through real live attacks and they get to see what those things look like and they get to then react to them and they’re scored based on that. And score goes up and down if they get hints or not, and it’s times.
And what we tried to do differently in Wicked6 than let’s say some of the bigger programs is that we made each game only an hour long. That really helps to keep it moving if you will, because some of these cyber competitions – I interviewed I want to say like 30, 40 players. It’s amazing. They will practice and prep for three to four months meeting three or so times a week for some of these bigger CTFs. And the CTFs are two to three days long, right? They’re almost like Hackerfest, right? And it’s very stressful. But we wanted something different, light and fun. So it was short games. That’s Wicked6. We’ll be doing it again this August. So we’re excited about that and we’ll probably making more of announcement and getting words out probably late February on that.
So then last year, for October, here we are all in Covid and we’re going to – What is it? Like 180 conferences in cybersecurity that happened in October? So we said, “Hey, why don’t we put on a carnival of games?” And so what we did was we worked with various different platforms, some focused on awareness and some focus on security education. We had a mixture of both. And we came up with a schedule of games that were available for people to play at no cost and they could win things. So each week we did like various different prizes. Somebody got a Google Nest. Somebody got a $10 Domino’s pizza. They were one of our sponsors. Things like that. And they got challenge coins at the end of it. So that was kind of fun, right? And it was just supposed to be fun to really kind of open up people to games, and it was a mixture.
We didn’t realize, Chris, that this is a global phenomenon. We’re thinking we did it. We’d focus on the U.S., no biggie. And we only marketed to the U.S. but somehow the world found out. And I would say a good 20% of our players were global, and top 20%. Like the ones that won prizes. It was wonderful. The diversity that we saw, incredible.
I would also say that the dedication we saw people put into some of this was wonderful as well. When you look at the numbers that came out, we had about 500 players total and only 20% were high school or college. So some professionals were playing. So it was great. We tried to do all the games at night and weekends so it wouldn’t interrupt work. That made it harder globally, believe it or not.
[00:34:59] CM: Yeah, yeah. I can imagine, yeah, yeah.
[00:34:59] JG: One feedback that we got is trying to do some day games too.
[00:35:03] CM: Oh, there you go.
[00:35:05] JG: So we’ll be mixing it up this October, but it’s exciting.
[00:35:10] CM: Now you mentioned a little bit about security awareness games within there and stuff. Do you have any tips? We’ve been talking a lot about sort of hacking games and sort of teaching up and comers how to break things so that they can learn to secure things. Do you have any tips or advice for developing gamified security awareness campaigns?
[00:35:33] JG: I think that they’re becoming more – Well, the virtual games are kind of here because of work from home, right? There’s a lot of mixture of games. There’s some really wonderful programs out there with insight. They have – Everybody loved playing that game. It was amazing. It was brand-new in October. It’s fun. It’s very much like Pokemon. It’s on your device and it’s very quick. And the beauty of that game was that even if you weren’t a security professional, you could play the game and have fun. But the more you understood, the more fun it was. Does that make sense?
[00:36:10] CM: Yeah, yeah.
[00:36:11] JG: And the better you were at the game. But really, the developers over there have done a wonderful job of really engaging players in a quick, fast pace. Some games last seven minutes. Some last 20. So I would definitely check them out.
Living security, I don’t know if you guys have heard of them. They do escape rooms and they have some amazing programs now virtually both hosted and self. So I would check them out. They were wonderful. Living Security, I asked them to do it for my own team, my marketing team, to give us kind of exposure to it. And it was great to see the team work together, to look at the different things and understand the different policies applied. And it really does help. I think it helps make it real and relevant a lot better than just, “Hey, read this flyer.” Or, “Here’s the latest security policy, sign it and you’re done.”
[00:37:04] CM: Yeah, yeah. Totally.
[00:37:06] JG: And it helps them take it home. That’s the beauty of security awareness is that when companies invest in security awareness games and programs, they’re sticky enough that not only are they doing it for their work stuff, but they’re bringing it home. So when they work from home, their work environment, their home is less prone to security issues, right? And that’s really important. And they’re teaching their kids. They’re teaching their parents. They’re teaching people that they’re associated with. So I think that’s a growing space we’ll see a lot more in the next coming years.
[00:37:43] CM: So can we talk about gamified security challenges as a way to possibly bring in potential cybersecurity professionals who might not have thought of this as a career or vocation before? We’re talking a lot about diversity and bringing more women in and more minority professionals. And is there a chance that these types of gamified programs can attract new and passionate people who might not have been previously considered for this type of work through the standard job fair, HR, school guidance counselor channels?
[00:38:13] JG: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. It’s why I have such passion for this is – Oh my gosh! You’re going to make me cry. I’m not supposed to do that on podcast. So MDC-3, the very first year, was exhausted. And I sat down at this cocktail table and this guy was watching the competition and he grabbed the seat next to me and just kind of sat there and he was just wowed and he’s a little teary-eyed, 47-year-old man sitting there. And I’m like, “So how’s it going?” Because I’m from Texas. I’ll talk to anybody. And he’s like, “I’m just in shock and amazed. You don’t understand.” I’m like, “Why?” And he’s like, he goes, “Do you see that kid right there? That’s my son. And my son six months ago, he didn’t know what to do with his. I couldn’t get him to do job applications. Here he is a freaking senior and he wasn’t even interested in college. I didn’t think he was going to go to college at all. And all he would do was play his games, right? And he was an introvert. He wasn’t really into programs of like athletics or any of the after school programs. And I was really starting to worry about him and then it got worse. He said he disappeared. He stopped coming home right after school and he’d be with friends. And I was convinced he was doing drugs. That he was doing something bad. And then the other day he comes up to me and say, “Hey, dad. Can you take me to Baltimore because I’ve been practicing with this team over the last few weeks and we qualified and we’re going to play this game?” And now he’s talking about colleges. And he’s talking about career in cybersecurity.” He said, “I had no idea.”
And it changed his life because the kids can actually see what it would be like, right? It’s not this weird philosophy, “Oh, programming, boring kind of thing.” They get to be part of something that’s bigger. And the cool part of that is the diversity piece, right? We use games at Cyberjutsu to really involve women. And the reason is because they are safe in some ways, culturally safe, right? You can do them from your house, all virtual. You don’t have to worry. You can go in-person. And it’s a game. So it’s not taken as seriously, right? So you can mess up. And it’s okay to ask for help. And people want to help you because the stronger the team is. So this helps tap into a lot of different diversity groups and it helps to get people hands-on exposure to what a career might look like as well as help them learn a few things and they get some confidence in it. And they’re like, “Hey, maybe I could do this for a living.”
And I think that’s really important. I think it also helps – It’s not as much pressure as a work environment. So you can kind of cultivate better relationships and learn how to team with different cultures, which is kind of nice. But I will say that our world has definitely changed in the last 10 years. The barrier to entry on games is so low. You can get it on your phone. You can do it from your computer. You can do it from home, from the coffee shop. Between technology and infrastructure and the way that we’re simplifying cybersecurity with visuals and such, it’s just really opening up and tapping new areas and new pools of diverse folks.
[00:41:49] CM: That’s fantastic. So I want to move from that to we sort of put a pin in it before, but I want to talk about – Put front and center Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu and your work with it. We had Mary Galloway on the show earlier as well and had a lot of fun with her as well. But you said earlier in the program that 10% of the cybersecurity industry is made up of women and part of that is just the sort of the burnout rate and people leaving. Can we sort of talk about that issue? Because I mean I’m sure some of that is, like you said, the repetition of it, but some of it has to be a culture issue as well, right? There’s a certain point where – Let’s just put on the table, like we might not feel that welcome in some of these sort of mono-cultured situation. So like what are some of the – I love hearing that gamification is bringing new sort of voices to the table and encouraging collaborations and stuff like that. So what are your thoughts on this sort of burnout issues and the cultural fit issues and all of that aspect of things?
[00:43:01] JG: Yeah, we’ve come a long way. We have come a long way with diversifying the workforce in cybersecurity, but we still have a long way to go, absolutely. It is still very much a mafia if you will. If it’s not, because it’s very masculine, which it totally is very masculine. But also, there’s a lot of – If you look at the history of where cybersecurity jobs come from, a lot of people don’t realize that for the most part, cybersecurity jobs really started around Clinger-Cohen. So that was regulation – That was what? 1996 was the CIO role? That wasn’t that long ago. I mean longer for us. But for people that been in the community, wasn’t that long ago.
So you definitely had – In order for it to be created, you pulled from other workforce pipelines, right? You pulled from law enforcement. You pulled from IT, and believe it or not, from information management. So librarians and such. So you had really these three groups of people come together to create a cybersecurity workforce. And because of that, there was a lot of cultural issues. And it’s difficult for women in cyber security because of that, because of it being very much – The way it’s grown up, people perceive that cybersecurity careers are really you have to like do your time. Do you know what I mean? You can’t just jump into something. You got to do your time. You got to earn your – [00:44:34] CM: Yeah, you’re woodshedding or paying your dues.
[00:44:38] JG: Yeah, paying your dues, and that you have to have a certain number of certs and you got to have years of experience and you got to be able to talk to the lingo and drop the names.
[00:44:47] CM: Had this mentor or whatever.
[00:44:48] JG: And all that stopped. And it can be very overwhelming if you’re not familiar and you can recognize that and say, “I’m just not going to play that game. I’m here. I have value,” and it takes encouragement.
Well, also what happens is that because of all the lingo if you will and the technical certs, et cetera, and the way recruiters do their job requirements, a lot of women will look at a job and say, “One, that’s boring. Two, I’m not qualified. And three, they’re not going to teach me. They just expect me to know all this stuff when I get there.” [00:45:27] CM: Yeah. And they’re going to try and punish me if I don’t know it. Right.
[00:45:29] JG: Right. Yeah, exactly, exactly. I’m going to look bad or I can’t spend that much time. It’s going to take me a lot of time to catch up or get educated. And what we try to do within Cyberjutsu is break down those myths for women and say, “One, you got us. We’re your tribe.” So you can call you can call on us. You can post. You can be part of Slack and get help and mentorship right there from women that have been in cybersecurity.
We also have this issue of – And this is actually much better with COVID. I mean I hate to say that, but there are some good things that have happened over the last year, right? This work from home aspect right has been good in some ways. The education and distance learning stuff, not so good for women. In fact this is actually hurting women quite a bit right now, and it’s one of those issues that definitely keeps me up at night. But it has allowed people to recognize the fact that you can work from home and you can break away from the eight to five, right? You can do you know work from seven, six a.m. in the morning until ten. Deal with the kids and other stuff and then come back at one and work and then deal from three to five family and then seven pick it back up. So people are getting more flexible. And as that happens, that’s going to help with diversity as well.
So there’s that piece of it that we’re dealing with. I think that the imposter thing is really prevalent. It’s also one of the things I have a blog on is about not seeking perfection. Women are groomed from a very young age, unlike men, right? We are groomed to seek perfection, right? Make sure your eyes are on point, your head’s up, your posture is good, you do the right thing. There’s perfection that women seek or girls seek, and some of the best dads in the world, they find themselves at fault because they’re teaching their girls perfection. What are they teaching the boys? They’re teaching the boys perseverance. You get pushed down, get back up. You fail, get back up. Try again and try again.
And so what we need to do is we need to kind of change that and teach our girls. You can continue to teach them perfection. There’s nothing wrong with that, but also teach them get back up, because half the job is just persevering. And then cybersecurity or entrepreneurship, it’s all about persevering because you’re not going to get it 100% and you’re never going to be perfect, right? It’s not about being perfect. It’s about figuring it out as you go. And that’s what we try to help with women. I think as more women start to recognize that, they’re going to realize the beauty. And there is a lot of value in being a cybersecurity professional. And some of the research that Gartner has done about women shows that. Yes, they’re burnt out and they’re leaving because of being berated, because of being told to shut up at work, because of creating more of a masculine environment that says you got to go to the bar afterwards in order to hobnob to get to the next career when they need to go home and cook dinner. There is that.
But when you look at would I want a job in IT or cybersecurity? More women say they want jobs in cybersecurity. And it comes back to that mission thing. Women have a heart. They want to know they’re making a difference. They’re not just making a buck, right? If I’m going to choose to spend my time here versus at home, I want to know my time is valued, right? And cybersecurity tells them that. It feeds them that, “Hey, you are defending and you can make a difference.” And the cool part is women are really good at it, because they can see a lot of – They’re not very linear. They can multi-process and see a lot of situational awareness because they’re used to doing that. They’re used to somebody saying, Get this deadline done. “Oh, mommy. Can I?” And they’ve got to redirect, pivot, come back kind of thing. So we try to create a very nurturing and encouraging environment to help women advance in cybercareers because it really will help the workforce and our community at large.
[00:49:46] CM: Yeah. I mean this hour has just blown by and it’s been just a blast and I can talk for hours with you about this, but I want to sort of start us toward our descent here. So as we wrap up today, what are some of the events – You talked a little bit about what is Wicked6 or Cyber Carnival going to be looking like for 2021? What kind of projects do you have in the pipeline and where can people sort of track what’s going to happen next?
[00:50:13] JG: I would track the Womenscyberjutsu.org. We’re going to have some announcements coming out. We have Cyberjutsu Con, which is coming in June. That is a virtual conference for women and men, but really kind of the messaging is towards women, but it’s open for both. And the cool part is we try to make it as hands-on as possible. So some of the sessions, it’s not your typical panel one-hour. We have those, but we have two and a half hour work sessions too where we actually have some code and we’re playing with Python, et cetera. So that can be fun.
In the next few weeks we’re going to be making some announcements through Cyberjutsu and through Katzcy about what’s going to be happening around RSA this year. It’s a virtual. For your audience, if you’ve never been to RSA, you got to go this year because it’s virtual. It’s May 17th through the 20th. We’re going to be having some programs and some cyber tournaments around that time frame and some cyber job career fairs kind of things too. So I would keep an eye out for that.
Again, some of the plans we can’t quite announce, but they’re coming in the next few weeks. So definitely look at womenscyberjutsu.org. Playcyber.com is a great site, I think. It’s by Katzcy. So I’m kind of biased. But that’s we’re going to be announcing some of the games as well. We’re going to be doing a tournament in partnership with the U.S. Cyber Range. They’re about May time frame. So that’s going to be fun. That’s also where you can find out about Wicked6. That will be happening in August, which means qualifying rounds really have to happen in May-June time frame. So we got to get the word out there soon.
And then we have quite a few more games. I think it’s like four or five games that we’ve got planned this year. Big tournaments as well as small little things that are fun to do. Oh! Cyber Carnival, October. I’m sorry. I’ve forgotten about that one.
[00:52:11] CM: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Jessica, well, thank you again for all of your time and insights today. This has been a blast.
[00:52:17] JG: Thanks. Take care.
[00:52:19] CM: And thank you all for listening and watching. New episodes of the Cyber Work podcast are available every Monday at 1 p.m. central both on video at our YouTube page and on audio wherever fine podcasts are downloaded. And don’t forget to check out our hands-on training series called Cyber Work Applied. Tune in as expert infosight instructors teach you a new cyber security skill and show you how that skill applies to real world scenarios. Go to infosecinstitute.com/learn to stay up to date on all things Cyber Work.
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Oracle Issues Massive Security Patch For Java, DatabasesOracle's quarterly update includes 127 security patches, including fixes for remotely exploitable Java flaws. Oracle on Tuesday released 127 security fixes for its products, including 51 patches for Java, as part of its quarterly critical patch update (CPU).
"Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply CPU fixes as soon as possible," according to the distribution page for the fixes.
Vulnerabilities detailed in the security bulletin affect all versions of Java (versions 5, 6 and 7), as well as Oracle Database 11g and 12c, Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Manager, E-Business Suite, Flexcube Products Suite, Oracle's Health Sciences and Retail Products suites, Primavera, PeopleSoft, Siebel and MySQL. While Oracle's critical patch update fixes only recent versions of many of those programs, the company said that older, unsupported versions may have the same bugs. "It is likely that earlier versions of affected releases are also affected by these vulnerabilities," Oracle said. "As a result, customers are recommended to upgrade to supported versions."
The Java 7 patches are good news for businesses and consumers that still rely on the Web browser plug-in, and Wisniewski at Sophos lauded Oracle's decision to patch all of its products -- including Java -- at the same time. "This is the first time Oracle is patching Java on the same quarterly cycle as other products, and perhaps the first time I have had something positive to say about Oracle security," he said. On that note, however, he also argued that Oracle still has a long way to go to get its security house in order, despite the company having already delayed the release of Java 8 in April to dedicate more resources on improving Java 7 security.
"I heard that Oracle won the America's Cup recently which leads me to give them some unsolicited advice," said Wisniewski. "Put the award on the shelf in your lobby, sell the $10 million dollar boat and hire the engineers needed to update the Java patch cycle to monthly with the spare cash. Three-plus billion devices will thank you."
Oracle's next quarterly patch update is scheduled for January 14, 2014.
CVE-2014-0914Published: 2014-07-30Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Maximo Asset Management 6.2 through 6.2.8 and 6.x and 7.x through 7.5.0.6, Maximo Asset Management 7.5 through 7.5.0.3 and 7.5.1 through 7.5.1.2 for SmartCloud Control Desk, and Maximo Asset Management 6.2 through 6.2.8 for Tivoli IT Asset Management f...
CVE-2014-0915Published: 2014-07-30Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in IBM Maximo Asset Management 6.2 through 6.2.8, 6.x and 7.1 through 7.1.1.2, and 7.5 through 7.5.0.6; Maximo Asset Management 7.5 through 7.5.0.3 and 7.5.1 through 7.5.1.2 for SmartCloud Control Desk; and Maximo Asset Management 6.2 through 6.2.8...
CVE-2014-0947Published: 2014-07-30Unspecified vulnerability in the server in IBM Rational Software Architect Design Manager 4.0.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted update site.
CVE-2014-0948Published: 2014-07-30Unspecified vulnerability in IBM Rational Software Architect Design Manager and Rational Rhapsody Design Manager 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.7 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ZIP archive.
CVE-2014-2356Published: 2014-07-30Innominate mGuard before 7.6.4 and 8.x before 8.0.3 does not require authentication for snapshot downloads, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTTPS request.
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According to researchers at Symantec, once users have installed the program, they see a screen, falsely informing them that their PC is infected with several types of malware. That's typical of this type of program. What's unusual, however, is the fact that the free trial version of Live PC Care includes a big yellow "online support" button.
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On October 3, Adobe reported that cyber attacks enabled attackers to download the customer data of about 2.9 million customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, and expiration dates. Adobe does not believe that decrypted credit or debit card information was removed from the Adobe systems.
The attacks also permitted the removal of source code information on Adobe products, including Adobe Acrobat, ColdFusion, and ColdFusion Builder. While Adobe isn’t aware of any “zero-day exploits” targeting Adobe products, they recommend the use of only supported versions of the software.
Adobe is resetting the passwords of affected customers, and has sent an email notification to those users with instructions on changing passwords and Adobe IDs. Adobe is also contacting customers whose credit or debit card information may have been compromised, and has notified banks processing Adobe customer payments. Federal law enforcement has also been contacted by Adobe.
Adobe has posted a security announcement on their website, as well as a blog post on the illegal access to their source code. | https://graphicartistsguild.org/adobe-reports-cyber-attack-breached-information-for-2-9-million-customers/ |
The two-volume set, LNCS 9326 and LNCS 9327 constitutes the refereed complaints of the twentieth eu Symposium on examine in laptop safety, ESORICS 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2015.
The fifty nine revised complete papers awarded have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 298 submissions. The papers tackle matters equivalent to networks and net safety; method defense; crypto program and assaults; threat research; privateness; cloud defense; protocols and attribute-based encryption; code research and side-channels; detection and tracking; authentication; regulations; and utilized protection. | http://steakhouseorgaybar.com/index.php/ebooks/computer-security-esorics-2015-20-th-european-symposium-on-research-in |
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Rival certificate authorities GlobalSign and Comodo CA this week launched competing IoT security platforms designed to improve identity management and authentication of connected devices.
GlobalSign Tuesday unveiled its IoT Identity Platform, which includes several products and services aimed at using public key infrastructure (PKI) to assign identities to IoT devices and authenticate them. The cloud-based platform includes IoT Edge Enroll, an enrollment client that provisions and manages PKI-based identities for an assortment of connected devices. IoT Edge Enroll can authenticate and revoke devices and also includes a device Registration Authority (RA) as well as certificate lifecycle management.
In addition, GlobalSign’s platform features IoT CA Direct, which is an identity issuance engine for device certificates, and IoT CA Connect, which offers third-party application integration for identity and access management products. GlobalSign said the platform uses RESTful APIs for secure connections and claims its PKI service can issue 3,000 certificates per second.
On Thursday, Comodo CA launched IoT PKI Manager, which also applies certificates to connected devices. Comodo’s IoT security platform, which uses a combination of X.509 identity certificates and customized TLS/SSL certificates, offers enterprises Certificate Authority (CA) signing and hosting services as well as a batch issuance system for enrolling and authenticating large batches of certificates.
Comodo’s IoT security platform also offers automatic certificate provisioning as well as certificate lifecycle management services. The company had previously introduced certificate products and services for IoT devices, but Damon Kachur, head of IoT solutions at Comodo CA, said the IoT PKI Manager ties those offerings together into one platform with a single user interface for all certificates accounts as well as new enrollment and management features. The aim, Kachur said, was to make the certificate process for IoT devices as easy as possible.
“The [IoT] industry is a little scared of PKI because companies think it’s a heavy lift,” he said. “It’s not, if you have the right platform. We take all of the auditing and all of the lifecycle management and make it simple.”
Both Comodo and GlobalSign, as well as other certificate authorities, have discussed the growing opportunities around securing and authenticating connected devices and have already made inroads in the IoT security market. PKI certificates can protect connections and data flows between devices and servers as well as enable organizations to revoke the access of compromised devices to their private networks.
“The certificates make sure that authenticated devices are connecting to the right private network and aren’t being used by threat actors,” Kachur said. “They can prevent things like the Mirai botnet [distributed denial-of-service] attacks.”
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capabilities (read: the ability to hack people) it needs to adequately defend the US. How cyber-attacking countries will help cyber-defense is anybody’s guess, but the idea that the NSA is somehow hamstrung is absurd.
The NSA runs sophisticated hacking operations all over the world. A Washington Post report showed that the NSA carried out 231 “offensive” operations in 2011 - and that number has surely grown since then. That report also revealed that the NSA runs a $652m project that has infected tens of thousands of computers with malware.
And that was four years ago - it’s likely increased significantly. A leaked presidential directive issued in 2012 called for an expanded list of hacking targets all over the world. The NSA spends ten of millions of dollars per year to procure “‘software vulnerabilities’ from private malware vendors” – ie, holes in software that will make their hacking much easier. The NSA has even created a system, according to Edward Snowden, that can automatically hack computers overseas that attempt to hack systems in the US. Moving further in this direction, Rogers has also called for another new law that would force tech companies to install backdoors into all their encryption. The move has provoked condemnation and scorn from the entire security community - including a very public upbraiding by Yahoo’s top security executive - as it would be a disaster for the very cybersecurity that the director says is a top priority. | http://themaskofthespur.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-nsas-plan-improve-cybersecurity-by.html |
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8. Putting it together…. Awareness: Behavior: Culture: I know I do We do 8
9. 1. Objective: Describe a workable model for reducing information security risks due to human error 2. Talk Plan: I. Differentiate between “Awareness” & “Behavior” We are here II. Case study III. Recap & Resources 9 10. Case-study: Client: One of the largest mobile service providers in the world • What? Spent US$ 100, 000 on a security awareness campaign • How? Screen Savers, Posters, Emailers • Who? Target - Entire employees 10 11. What did we do? “Awareness vs. behavior” benchmarking and produced a scorecard 11
15. Reason 3: Perception… Which is safer? 16
16. Reason 4: Attitude … influenced by cost…(peer pressure, top management behavior) Nothing’s gonna happen to me if I violate the security policies? Well, I saw her doing it …shall I? 17. “Awareness” & “Behavior”: Independent but interdependent Question : A person knows the traffic rules. Answer: Not necessarily, “Knowing” and “Doing” are two different things Question: A person knows the “information security rules”. Does that make the person a responsible information security practitioner? Answer: Same as above Knowing = Awareness Doing = Behavior 18. 1. Case study We are here III. Solution model IV. Recap & Resources 19
23. Define Strategize Deliver Verify • For awareness management – Coverage – Format & visibility: Verbal, Paper and Electronic – Frequency – Quality of content • Impact visualization • Clarity & ease of understanding • Business relevance • Consideration of cultural factors – Retention measurement. • For behavior management – Motivational strategies – Enforcement/ disciplinary strategies 24
24. Quality of content • Impact visualization • Clarity & ease of understanding • Business relevance Yup! Not the usual glorified • Consideration of cultural factors power point Wow! This security awareness video is so cool! 25. A 120 minute training plan • 120 minutes of training in a year – 45 minutes classroom or e-learning – 15 minutes screen saver (12 X 1 to 1.5 minutes) – 15 minutes posters/ wallpaper (same as above) – 30 minutes through short videos (6 x 5 minutes) – 20 minutes through quizzes/ surveys (2 x 10 minutes) 26. Behavior management: What works? Let’s cut his Let’s talk to email access him Let’s fire him 27
35. Recap Responsible information Define Strategize Deliver Verify security behavior 38
36. Tip! Get HR buy-in People are my People are my biggest threat! biggest asset! HR InfoSec Manager You must talk the same thing! 39 37. Conclusion If you can influence perception, you can influence the way people choose or react (behavior) Perception is influenced if there is a cost for an action 40 38. If I follow the information security rules will I gain something. If I don’t follow, will I lose something? When you get your users’ to think this way, you are on your way to a better information security culture! 41 | https://pt.slideshare.net/NarayananAnup/reducing-security-risks-due-to-human-error-information-security-summit-kuala-lumpur-malaysia-june-2011 |
Convergence is everywhere. We want to condense and combine our procedures, our software, and even our hardware. Among the most recent convergence efforts is the "all-in-one" mobile device, which combines the functionality of the cell phone with that of the PDA so that you can take calls as you, for example, address your various calendar, email, and Web-surfing needs.
Increasingly, these devices are proliferating in IT environments. You probably don't want to use one for serious systems administration. But the all-in-one mobile device is ideal for giving you on-the-go access to the data to which you need the quickest access, as well as taking advantage of that information to engage in near-instant communication. In this Buyer's Guide, we've compiled a listing of the hottest new devices in the all-in-one device market. Here are some of the considerations to keep in mind if you're thinking about a purchase.
Bluetooth has recently found a foothold in the arena of all-in-one mobile devices. Wireless-modem capabilities let you use your phone not only for voice communication but also for data flow. And available Wi-Fi functionality gives you Internet access on the go.
Your local cell-phone provider will determine your type of reception coverage. The device will conform to one of three wireless-networking formats—Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). The most popular format is GSM, which supports a digital network called General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) that's vital for wireless data services such as email and Internet access.
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Got a call from my mother about what she thought was a virus on her netbook today. She had been sent an email from a friend with a single link, which she clicked on only to be sent to a spoof page masquerading as the My Computer window, with a popup in the middle claiming to be from "Windows Web Security". I tried closing the tab, but a standard IE warning message appeared, repeating the same thing - computer infected, must download our software, etc. I tried getting rid of it with alt+F4, but it keeps returning (I should have known better).
Right now I'm still at that point - the entire Internet Explorer window has been stalled by this error message (can't even close the browser), and I don't know what to do about it. I haven't had any warnings from McAfee and a separate IE window is working perfectly, so I hope the netbook may not actually be infected yet, but I have no idea what to do next. What can I do to get rid of this page, and make sure that this computer is clean?
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While reading outsourcing horror stories may be somewhat entertaining, especially if it hasn't happened to you, it's even better to learn from the mistakes of others.
That's why InfoWorld talked to industry experts to summarize their best advice, based on their own experience and their clients' experiences. Those industry experts are Larry Harding, founder and president of High Street Partners, a global consultancy that advises company on how to expand overseas; Steve Martin, a consultant and partner at Pace Harmon, half of whose business is focused on helping companies repair the damage from an outsourcing deal gone bad; Peter Geisheker, CEO of the Geisheker Group marketing firm; and Patrick Dolan, CEO of BPO Management Services.
1. Establish clear objectives. It's not that the best-laid plans oft times go astray; it's that they often aren't the best-laid plans in the first place.
There is a lack of experience in what outsourcing entails. Going global with a sales and marketing initiative, for example, has implications in finance as well as most of the company's other departments.
2. Get a compatible provider. Make sure your service provider understands more than just how to code or implement. An outsourcer needs to be compatible with your company's culture and business objectives, with the right experience, communications skills, and working style. Remember, they will become part of your organization and need to fit in as well as actual employees would.
3. Don't go in shortsighted. Stakeholders often get lost in the deal itself. In the attempt to save the company lots of money, the emphasis shifts to documenting the benefits of the deal and locking prices down, savings, terms, and conditions. Often missing is a focus on the long-term result desired to justify such a fundamental switch in business operations.
4. Never confuse sales and delivery. Focus on getting a good delivery -- it's the ultimate point of the deal, but it's frequently overlooked once the papers are signed. It is those delivery details that get lost in transition from the deal guys to the execution team.
5. Change your attitude toward IT. Don't think of IT as a cost center; instead, consider it a value center. Such a switch clarifies what is key to the business and what is in fact generic, and thus what should be a candidate for outsourcing in the first place.
6. Get the communications right. Make sure the service provider understands the project specifications. Be as detailed and precise as possible. When you distribute IT functions outside your organization, you need a great deal of coordination and back-and-forth communications -- even more than when you distribute across your internal organization.
7. Expect to get what you pay for. If you put the outsourcer under too much cost pressure, it will cut corners too, such as using junior resources.
8. Stay on-site. If possible, budget to keep on-site presence at the service provider. You need to see what is actually happening, and have your ambassador there so that the outsourcer can stay connected with you as well.
9. Retain responsibility. Outsourcing shouldn't mean that you are abdicating responsibility. You still own the overall results, so you need to be actively involved in working with and managing the outsourcer.
10. Get C-level sign-offs. Make sure you have senior-level stakeholders such as the CIO on the client side and CEO on the vendor side. Don't delegate everything to middle management.
11. Pick the right projects to outsource. In many cases, the outsourcing decision is made for the wrong reasons. IT tends to unload the stuff it doesn't want, as opposed to figuring out what makes sense to outsource. What to outsource depends on the company's objectives. If the primary goal is to save money, then start with the applications that cost you the most money.
12. Clean up before you outsource. Companies tend to dump their problems on outsourcers, then are surprised a bad result ensues. If the company couldn't get the systems right, how it can it expect the outsourcer to do it? It's actually harder for the outsourcer because they don't have your history, culture, and business context when trying to decide what is "right." Likewise, deploy new systems yourself, then outsource to someone else to operate and maintain.
13. Get the SLA metrics right. Because IT organizations are not typically good about collecting metrics, they make several mistakes, the biggest of which may be to accept the outsourcers' SLAs (service-level agreements). If the vendor sets the baselines, you can be sure it was done in such a way to minimize risk and penalties and maximize incentives.
And always pair SLA performance metrics with customer satisfaction survey. This will tell you whether you have the right SLA. Otherwise, the vendor may be hitting all of the SLA levels yet have unhappy customers. That should tell you that you're measuring the wrong thing. | https://www.cio.com.au/article/258287/13_best_practices_it_outsourcing/ |
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ast Wednesday, the world’s largest stock exchange went down for half a day, the world’s fifth-largest airline grounded its planes for a few hours, and The Wall Street Journal’s home page went missing, all within a few hours of each other.
No wonder speculation was rife that a large-scale cyber attack was under way. But by the end of the day the Department of Homeland Security had declared unequivocally that this triple threat was merely a coincidence — random outages that happened to fall on the same day. I believe it.
Part of the reason I accept this explanation is because the damage was so minimal. A coordinated, widespread cyber attack that went far beyond last week’s mini-debacle could be executed at will by any hackers seeking to make a great big point. It would not take uber-skilled hackers to accomplish. A few kids could do it using readily available hacking tools to target the abundant vulnerabilities nearly every company decides to live with as a part of the cost of doing business.
Our state of insecurity
When you read a news headline about a company that was hacked on a particular day, don’t think that company was the only one. In fact, nearly every company is either currently hacked and owned or could easily be hacked and owned with minimal effort. The headline should always read, “X company was hacked today, along with every other company.”
Yes, I mean every company — except for (literally) one or two that have implemented proper defenses. Even companies that have been thoroughly and publicly owned and have spent millions of dollars on security in response are still easily hackable.
Few companies are doing what they need to do fast enough. Worse, few companies are concentrating on the right elements. Prompt and consistent patching of all software and educating employees against social engineering would remove the majority of security risk in almost all organizations.
When I share this view with the executives at the companies I consult for, I’m often told, for example, it’s not that simple.
True, patching can be complex. But many companies don’t even own software that can patch the most exploited software programs — which today appear to be unpatched Java and Adobe software. Alternatively, they have the right patch management software, but fail to patch the most abused programs, which can be found on nearly every computer.
Moreover, I can tell you from experience that nearly every company has weak passwords that haven’t been changed since the system was installed. Nearly every company has employees that can easily be socially engineered out of their logon credentials. Nearly every company allows all employees to install anything they want.
As long as this lax state of affairs persists, almost any group can cause a digital Armageddon. It may not have happened last week, but it can still easily come to pass.
The big security fix
How do we remedy this ridiculous state of affairs? For starters, we need to restructure the Internet so that anonymity is replaced with high-assurance, pervasive identities. As long as cyber criminals can get away with their transgressions, we will never decrease Internet crime. We need to enforce new requirements on the existing Internet.
We don’t need new protocols or technologies to make this happen. We already have all the tools and technology we need for pervasive identity to become a reality. But we need agreement on the bare minimum requirements for all Internet transactions — and to enforce those requirements.
Some folks reject the idea of pervasive identity becoming the rule on the Internet. I get that. Personally, I think the solution is to fork the Internet into sections that require or don’t require pervasive identity. If you don’t want to use pervasive identity, that’s fine. But don’t interact with me or all the other people who want to work and play on a more secure Internet. You have your place and we’ll have ours.
Ours will be a lot less stressful. We’ll spend far less time getting rid of malware and ignoring the constant onslaught of spam and other malicious or bothersome problems that currently plague the Internet today.
Lastly, whether or not pervasive identity takes hold, all companies should look at the ways they’ve been successfully attacked and fix these issues first. This sounds self-evident, but most companies don’t do it. Instead, they spend money to fix bugs that sound like severe risks but aren’t. Improving security doesn’t take more money, only a shift in resources to the appropriate items.
I’m going to do my part. Here and in every other place where I have a voice I’ll continue to raise the alarm. We can make the Internet a significantly safer place to compute. We simply have to do it. | http://nationalcybersecurity.com/evil-conspiracy-nope-everyday-cyber-insecurity/ |
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The New School is committed to protecting the identity and personal information of our New School community members. Multi-factor authentication is one way that we reduce the risk of unauthorized users gaining access to New School accounts.
With the significant prevalence of malicious cyber actors and attacks it is imperative we as a university take the steps necessary to protect our student, faculty, and staff’s personal data. Cyber criminals are actively targeting education institutions like The New School. When a breach or an attack occurs at an education institution the data that is compromised can include both critical business information and the personal data of all staff, faculty and students. Requiring the use of multi-factor authentication for access to email and other critical information systems significantly reduces the chances of a successful breach.
How will this deployment be completed?
In addition to the applications that already require multi-factor authentication like MyDay and VPN for New School employees, all services that are accessed via Single Sign On (SSO), like MyNewSchool and Canvas, will eventually require multi-factor authentication.
In October, we will begin rolling out multi-factor to these additional services starting with Google workspace, which includes Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, and Drive. Below, we have outlined what the various user groups should expect at the time of this rollout.
After we have successfully implemented multi-factor authentication on Google workspace services, we will communicate the plan for the implementation of multi-factor on the remaining SSO services.
Employees who have not already enrolled a device with Duo will need to do so by going to multifactor.newschool.edu and following the guided instructions.
Additional information about multi-factor authentication can be found here, including instructions on how to set up and use Duo Security, as well as FAQs. If you have any additional questions, please reach out to IT Central at [email protected] or 646.909.4357. | https://it.newschool.edu/features/multi-factor-authentication-service-rollout |
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We are investigating a potential breach of sensitive personal information belonging to current employees, former employees and various clients.
Information involved may include name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, client identification number, medical diagnostic and treatment information, and health insurance information.
If you believe your information was included in the breach, we are interested in hearing from you.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — October 27, 2015 — Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, today announced that Ken Westin, senior security analyst, will moderate a panel on improving cyber security literacy for entrepreneurs. The panel is hosted by Built Oregon and will take place November 5, 2015, at the Southwest Broadway Union Bank branch in Portland.
In this panel, Westin and other cyber security experts from Portland will discuss how startups and entrepreneurs can secure their IT infrastructure as the threat landscape evolves.
Panel attendees will learn:
The most important steps entrepreneurs should take after discovering a data breach.
How to understand and mitigate business security risks, including those caused by remote workers, Internet of Things devices and the cloud.
Why data collection can be both a resource and a liability.
Intellectual property (IP) theft has cost U.S. companies an estimated $300 billion per year, according to a 2013 report by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. Cyber attacks targeting IP theft can have a profound impact on entrepreneurs, and small- to medium-sized businesses are prime targets for cyber criminals. In fact, PwC’s Global State of Information Security Survey 2015 reported that compromises in medium-sized organizations increased 64 percent between 2013 and 2014.
“No business is too big or too small to be a target for cyber crime,” said Westin. “Business leaders need to understand cyber security risks in order to speak confidently to their boards, investors and customers about their organizations’ security investments and resources.”
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The Maryland law clearly contravenes the Fourth Amendment.
Clearly. So who is the Times fighting for? All of us, of course, but specifically, this thug:
The case involves the collection of DNA from Alonzo Jay King Jr. after his arrest on assault charges in 2009. His DNA profile matched evidence from a rape in 2003, and he was convicted of that rape.
The state did not, however, obtain a warrant to collect his DNA, nor did it establish that it had probable cause to think that his DNA would link him either to the assault or the rape. It did not even meet the lowest threshold for some searches, by establishing that it had a reasonable basis for taking his DNA, or showing that the DNA evidence would disappear unless it was collected.
Maryland argues that collecting and analyzing DNA is like fingerprinting. But the purpose of fingerprinting is to identify someone who has been arrested. Maryland was using DNA for investigative purposes, not identification, and doing so without legal justification.
The fingerprinting point-counterpoint is ludicrous (and discussed here in the context of a similar California case). DNA is a prefectly plausible identification tool and the police routinely run new fingerprints through databases in order to solve crimes. Put it this way - if, after booking Mr. King, the police had run his fingerprints through a database and found a match to a knife found at the scene of an unsolved murder, would the Times be squawking?
And yes, these are the same Times editors that won't rest until we have a national gun registry, so their concern for our privacy is a very sometime thing.
Yes, we could run our criminal justice system Times-style. The result will be fewer rape cases solved and more of the wrongfully-convicted languishing in jail, but the privacy rights of those arrested (but not yet convicted!) of violent crimes will have been upheld. Do we all see a brighter tomorrow?
Here are two papers discussing the issues. DNA does contain more information than fingerprints so there is a possibility of a loss of medical privacy, whoch could be mitigated with appropriate safeguards. If this Big Brother privacy concern from the same people screaming for National Health seems irreconciliable, well, you aren't smart enough to be a Lib either.
The problem for me is the difference between arrest and conviction. You can be arrested for a lot of things, and many people have. Getting a felony conviction is a bit harder.
Part of the problem is that we have so many laws on the books these days that a zealous prosecutor can indict almost anyone on something. I would feel a bit better about this whole thing if they were to purge the DNA records of those who are not convicted of a violent felony, and maybe not use the DNA until the conviction.
Making things even worse is that it appears that they can also tell familial matches, if some, but not all, of the DNA matches, and predict how close the relationship is. This potentially means that if a sibling is ever arrested (and maybe never convicted), you may become a prime suspect with a partial match on their DNA.
I think that a lot of people who don't oppose this think that it would only apply to and affect the criminal class. But, why should it? Why do people who don't trust the government with their guns, trust it potentially with their DNA?
at the federal level, is out for our best interests. Rather, it is out for its own best interests, and that of the politicians, bureaucrats, and police, in this case. They may coincide with our best interest, but I would suggest in many cases, that is more coincidental than anything. Why trust it to do the right thing with the DNA it collects? I don't.
TomM-- according to the NYT we can never EVER offend arrested felons or Voter Frauds (same thing?) b/c of the sanctity of their privacy right. The rest of us, can suck privacy eggs acording to the NYT.
PS: OK make fun of Mr. Roberts odd righthanded swing follow through (is that a Yoga pose?) but he's STILL BETTER than 2/3 of the Yanks current OF!
Next I am going to describe graphically exactly what the economic and political vision looks like that goes with this ed vision and systems thinking.
And on the subject of this post, the data being thrown out about people and what they believe and value and what it takes to change them really is like something from science fiction. And I was not happy to learn last week that Big Blue has been pursuing mental models/brain research from 2006 and calling it the Blue Brain. It was their P Tech model bo referred to in the SOTU as the new model for high schools. And they just got a large grant from EU to continue this research. Those statists.
Posted by: rse 10:40 AM
I don't start from the position that the government, esp. I could not possibly agree with this more.
No matter how sensible or logical or well-intentioned a government program or policy is, it doesn't matter if the people who will be implementing and enforcing it are not trustworthy.
And I think "not trustworthy" is an extremely generous description of nearly all of our elected and appointed political leaders; and far too many among our justice and law enforcement agencies.
Does anyone believe it will be more difficult to string together suppositions regarding a "violence" genetic sequence....
I believe it will never be possible to deprive a person of his liberty on the basis of such suppositions. Should we ever get to the point where the courts would allow it, DNA evidence will be the least of our worries.
My thoughts were running more along the lines of preference and denial. Certain gene sequences have been given preference for quite some time and the preference results in denial to other gene sequences when a finite number of positions are available. It doesn't require a stretch of the imagination to envision a scenario where "mental health professionals" reach a "scientific consensus" regarding genetic predisposition to violence as a rationale for abrogating rights.
It will all be couched as an effort to promote the general welfare, of course.
Good point. But medical professionals can always condition treatment on the patient's acquiescence in various procedures, even today. Not hard to imagine their conditioning this, that or the other on getting a DNA sample. They won't have to rely on samples taken at the time of an arrest.
henry-absolutely Polanyi. See him as the support in the footnotes all the time.
Schon also worked on a book called The Research Society in the 60s that came out of work he did with Raymond Hainer. The book shows me the list of participants and the work they were all doing for the Navy weapons lab. It influenced Case and Western before they merged as they has profs on panel as did Carnegie and Mellon. On the B school/economic front, the profs are taking the position that they basically created mgmt theory in the first place and therefore can remake it to fit new desired economic systems.
Schon and Argyris are far more interesting in what they push than Forester. I think Senge's book in 1990, The Fifth Discipline, like Spady's work is designed to push the desired theories to gain change without surrendering who really developed and how the Transformation sought is close to total.
My guess is if I did not have an original of the Fieldbook from 94, he would be less graphic today. Always try to get a copy of the version created before controversy.
United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, in 1976, gave the Border Patrol authority to operate checkpoints within the interior of the United States and not at border crossings only.
1. The Border Patrol's routine stopping of a vehicle at a permanent checkpoint located on a major highway away from the Mexican border for brief questioning of the vehicle's occupants is consistent with the Fourth Amendment, and the stops and questioning may be made at reasonably located checkpoints in the absence of any individualized suspicion that the particular vehicle contains illegal aliens. Pp. 556-564.
(a) To require that such stops always be based on reasonable suspicion would be impractical because the flow of traffic tends to be too heavy to allow the particularized study of a given car necessary to identify it as a possible carrier of illegal aliens. Such a requirement also would largely eliminate any deterrent to the conduct of well-disguised smuggling operations, even though smugglers are known to use these highways regularly. Pp. 556-557.
(b) While the need to make routine checkpoint stops is great, the consequent intrusion on Fourth Amendment interests is quite limited, the interference with legitimate traffic being minimal and checkpoint operations involving less discretionary enforcement activity than roving-patrol stops. Pp. 557-560.
(c) Under the circumstances of these checkpoint stops, which do not involve searches, the Government or public interest in making such stops outweighs the constitutionally protected interest of the private citizen. Pp. 560-562.
(d) With respect to the checkpoint involved in No. 74-1560, it is constitutional to refer motorists selectively to a secondary inspection area for limited inquiry on the basis of criteria that would not sustain a roving-patrol stop, since the intrusion is sufficiently minimal that no particularized reason need exist to justify it. Pp. 563-564.
2. Operation of a fixed checkpoint need not be authorized in advance by a judicial warrant. Camara v. Municipal Court, [428 U.S. 543, 544] 387 U.S. 523 , distinguished. The visible manifestations of the field officers' authority at a checkpoint provide assurances to motorists that the officers are acting lawfully. Moreover, the purpose of a warrant in preventing hindsight from coloring the evaluation of the reasonableness of a search or seizure is inapplicable here, since the reasonableness of checkpoint stops turns on factors such as the checkpoint's location and method of operation. These factors are not susceptible of the distortion of hindsight, and will be open to post-stop review notwithstanding the absence of a warrant. Nor is the purpose of a warrant in substituting a magistrate's judgment for that of the searching or seizing officer applicable, since the need for this is reduced when the decision to "seize" is not entirely in the hands of the field officer and deference is to be given to the administrative decisions of higher ranking officials in selecting the checkpoint locations. Pp. 564-566.
Can they use other dogs like cadaver dogs to look for human remains? Maybe they can use bomb sniffing dogs on every car now. (We can be sure there won't be any dogs that can sniff out a hispanic person that has not bathed for two months while working their way north from Oaxaca.)
What does this mean for The 9th Circuit decision in U.S. v. $30,060 in U.S. Currency?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the government did not have probable cause to seize $30,060 from a motorist based only on a drug-detection dog's reaction... Key to the court's ruling was a finding that up to 75 percent of all currency in the Los Angeles area is coated with traces of cocaine or other controlled substances.
"Didn't anybody tell where Reporting for Doody was to report? More smart diplomacy; even when Rodham was getting blotto "concussions" she never got that lost."
I seem to recall Hillary having her share of faux pas, though I can't remember the specifics any more.
Posted by: jimmyk 01:07 PM
"Ponder the following hypothetical: Scientists develop a scanner that, when pointed at a house, will flash a red light if, and only if, a felony is being committed inside. Should the police be allowed to cruise the streets pointing this scanner at each house?"
One problem there is the feedback loop into what gets defined as a "felony." If that could be fixed, then I suppose people could sign a release giving the police permission to do so.
Flordia v. Jardines is the other case that will be decided by SCOTUS this year.
Facts of the Case: On November 3, 2006, the Miami-Dade Police Department received an unverified "crime stoppers" tip that the home of Joelis Jardines was being used to grow marijuana. On December 6, 2006, two detectives, along with a trained drug detection dog, approached the residence. The dog handler accompanied the dog to the front door of the home. The dog signaled that it detected the scent of narcotics. The detective also personally smelled marijuana. The detective prepared an affidavit and applied for a search warrant, which was issued. A search confirmed that marijuana was being grown inside the home. Jardines was arrested and charged with trafficking cannabis. Jardines moved to suppress the evidence seized at his home on the theory that the drug dog's sniff was an impermissible search under the Fourth Amendment and that all subsequent evidence was fruit of the poisonous tree. The trial court conducted an evidentiary hearing and subsequently ruled to suppress the evidence. The state appealed the suppression ruling and the state appellate court reversed, concluding that no illegal search had occurred since the officer had the right to go up to the defendant's front door and that a warrant was not necessary for the drug dog’s sniff. The Florida Supreme Court reversed the appellate court's decision and concluded that the dog's sniff was a substantial government intrusion into the sanctity of the home and constituted a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. The state of Florida appealed the Florida Supreme Court's decision.
Preemptive strike policy can be applied to the death panels, too.
By taking care of myself and remaining fit may just mean my organs will be better for harvesting.
Shoot...Alan Colmes agrees with TM on this matter.
Posted by: Frau Pirx 01:27 PM
Illinois v. Lidster plus Dorner plus a couple of well trained Kag-nines may be all the probable cause necessary.
Facts of the Case: Police stopped Robert Lidster at a checkpoint set up to find information about a recent hit-and-run accident. Lidster was arrested, and later convicted, for drunk driving. Lidster successfully appealed his conviction to the Illinois Appellate Court. It relied on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Indianapolis v. Edmond (2000) holding that a checkpoint is unconstitutional if its only purpose is to uncover "ordinary criminal wrongdoing." The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed.
Question: Does Indianapolis v. Edmond, which dealt with the Fourth and 14th Amendment prohibitions of unreasonable searches and seizures, prohibit checkpoints organized to question motorists about a previous offense and arrest motorists for drunk driving?
Decision: No. In an opinion delivered by Justice Breyer, the Court held 6-3 that the Illinois checkpoint did not violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures and was constitutional. It ruled that the checkpoint was reasonable because it advanced a "grave" public interest - "investigating a crime that had resulted in a human death" - and interfered minimally with Fourth Amendment liberty. The Court distinguished Illinois's "information-seeking" checkpoint from the "crime control" checkpoint struck down in Edmond. Justices Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg - while agreeing that Edmond does not invalidate the Illinois checkpoint - dissented from the majority's decision granting constitutional approval to the checkpoint. They argued that the case should have been remanded to the Illinois courts.
I was at a business conference last week, and one of our speakers was a guy who helped run the digital campaign for Obama in 2012.
Besides having to sit through almost 2.5 hours worth of Obama/Biden and Moo-chell hagiography, the stuff they did with Facebook and other social media in terms of targeting specific voting groups and individuals was awesomely powerful, but also very, very frightening.
Very few people fully understand the way that their digital habits, social media use, and internet browsing is opening themselves up to the kind of data mining/analysis and message targeting that is currently being conducted to and against them, or the extent to which their privacy is being undermined.
It certainly reinforced why I deleted my FB account.
The sadder thing is that the Right has a long way to catch up to them in this regard.
And the even sadder thing is how most of these larger social media/internet tools like FB, Google, etc., are controlled and dominated by Leftists.
But RR had an electronic GOTV system that was going to be Shock & Awe, right? Oh wait. It crashed on game day.
The Reps are gonna get right on a feasibility study soon I'm sure. Please send money for more consultants.
The leftists could not stop Chick-fil-A Day even with all their nifty technocrap.
The GOP needs to follow that model to gain support of like minded individuals and forget the notion that a Twitterpated yoot will ever vote for a conservative that deletes his FB page.
Frau, did you ever read "Never Let Me Go," by Ishiguro? About kids raised for their organs to be harvested. I think they made a movie of it.
NK, before seeing this guy's presentation, I would have poo-poo'd much of his claims.
Afterward, not at all. I may not like what they did, but they masterfully used the data to achieve their objective.
Whether it was 3 Million or 1.5 or whatever, it was the difference ... along with massive voter fraud and those on the Right who refused to vote for RR.
I figured out years ago that if information was power, then control of that information was even more powerful. Thus, I got into computer systems/network administration and engineering.
But somewhee along the way, I limited myself too much to the physical control of the information, and did not focus enough on the directed USE of that information.
The Big Data coupled with supercomputers is part of the reason the Left is now asserting and this admin working with the tech companies is working to implement a centrally planned economy built around Sustainability as the premise on why it has to be centrally planned. Actually the real reason is politicians want power and current Business on top does not want to lose its existing markets to competing products. So they cozy up to pols and regulators and say "Make them stop that."
And all that is in published reports the National Research Council has published in last 2 years.
It's been only two weeks since Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) introduced H.R.747 "To amend the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women with the Selective Service System" and now, they want to get rid of the draft completely ...
WASHINGTON—Two lawmakers are waging a little-noticed campaign to abolish the Selective Service System, the independent federal agency that manages draft registration.
They say the millions of dollars the agency spends each year preparing for the possibility of a military draft is a waste of money.
Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., say the Pentagon has no interest in returning to conscription due to the success of the all-volunteer force.
Posted by: Neo 04:13 PM
After reading fdcol63's post on his recent business conference cum education in using social media to win elections, there is this: White House using Twitter Trolls to push Gun Control.
Now, I recognize the left has a leg up on this act because of Zuckerborg, Brill(iant) and others in the Valley but the GOP needs to find a few young brilliant geniuses of their own and come up with a cyber plan that will work for them. Signing up to JOM or Ace isn't going to solve one damn thing.
My wife wanted me to give up snarking about the Episcopal Church for Lent. But that would have been too hard so I gave up chocolate instead.
Porch, speaking of my snarking on that subject, you will be amused that in response to my sending him the Delinpole post of last week (via DoT), my Pastor included this quote in his letter to the congregation this week in which he castigated church leaders at all levels: "A Church which is wed to the desires of one generation will find itself widowed in the next". so I think there remain a few who get it, though I think he is as pessimistic as I am.
I was brought up in a mixed Episcopal-Catholic family. My Irish mother prevailed.
My right footed grandfather was the senior warden at St. John's Episcopal Church in Southampton as well as the famous St. Andrew's on The Dunes. Never once did he stifle or argue or complain to my Mother. He accepted her faith and for that he is my saint. But, interesrtingly, during discorvery of all the old artifacts, books, letters and diaries left behind we have discovered that "Willie" became interested in the commonality of both religions especially the service (Mass).
He may have been one of the first ecumenicals. Think about it - if Episocopalians/Anglicans/CoE could just get over Henry VIII rant against those rigid Italians where we could be as a world force:)
NK: Married priests? I don't think in my lifetime.
JIB: I agree with you .I love my faith because it has never failed me. This is the year of Faith for Catholics. I believe a third world Pope will be selected.
Posted by: maryrose 05:53 PM
I suggested once that if one were to rerun the ROI calculations of a wind farm deleting the tax credits, projecting a realistic useful life, and then factoring in the end of life cash costs, then there would never be a rational investor involved in any of them.
To say nothing about how gawd-awful ugly they are. I utterly detest them and every asshole who sucked in the cash from the gov to put them up. Gah!
Also, "rational" goes out the window when uncle sugar starts dropping the coin. But you knew that.
"A Church which is wed to the desires of one generation will find itself widowed in the next". OL, that is a great way to put it.
Our Anglican rector was ordained a Roman Catholic priest 40 years ago this week. 20 years ago, he met and married a woman he loved and left the Church to become an Episcopalian (later splinter Anglican) priest. His wife has been his great support these 20 years and it's clear that our church is the better for it.
That said, I do respect the arguments for celibacy. It's just that there are so many fewer men called to the priesthood these days - how can the Church afford to recruit from such a diminished pool at a time when the Church needs strong leadership more than ever?
Posted by: Porchlight 06:04 PM
But others feel that is what makes it more disiciplined and I say in this day and age that is wishful thinking.
I suspect that equating celibacy with a more disciplined priesthood has always been wishful thinking. I strongly believe that the kind of priestly sexual shenanigans which have been brought "out of the closet" in recent decades have been rampant since celibacy became the rule.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet 06:09 PM
When did it become the rule? St. Peter was married and one of Christ's first healings was to heal Peter's wife's mother of a fever. And St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn. True, Christ didn't marry (except in fiction) but what mortal ever approached the moral perfection of Christ Jesus?
Posted by: Chubby 06:28 PM
The reasons for a celibate priesthood are based quite soundly on Church biblical exegesis and historical tradition, despite the period when priests were allowed to marry. Chubby, the apostles abandoned the married life and St Paul's admonishments only pointed out the difference in vocations. I doubt there will be a wholesale change anytime soon. I do think you might see a small push towards a married lesser clergy, similar to the Orthodox. For example deacons in the Catholic church may be married but may not marry once in the diaconate. Also Anglican and Lutheran priests that cross the Tiber and are married are allowed priestly duties but are not eligible for bishop.
On a personal note our priest, a missionary Filipino, says the divided loyalties and duties of a family would make his life impossible. I believe this would be an issue for any married priest.
I find it hard to understand why celibacy, not to minimize the hardship, is somehow supposed to be more of a hurdle now than say at the time of the English martyrs. To me, it goes directly to the lack of moral fortitude and depth of commitment common to this age.
Posted by: Laura 06:34 PM
thanks, Laura. That was very interesting.
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The research, carried out by NetIQ amongst 65 IT managers across Europe, reveals that while companies are working hard to meet the demands of the PCI DSS, the compliance requirements have proven much more difficult to meet than anticipated. Coming just weeks ahead of the June 30th deadline for PCI DSS 6.6 concerning security measures to protect web applications, the situation promises to become even more complex.
The findings reveal that 54% of respondents are unable to forecast when they will be fully compliant with the standard, which was originally introduced in January 2005 to help organisations enforce security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. Only 12% of respondents were currently compliant and 17% of those that responded predicted that they would be compliant within six to twelve months.
The findings also show that European companies are some way behind their US counterparts in reaching compliance with 23% of participants in a similar survey of 300 US organisations stating that they are already PCI DSS compliant. However, as with Europe, a significant proportion of US organisations could not put a fixed date on completion with 44% still unsure of their timeline for becoming fully compliant.
The road to compliance is typically a long one, as 49% of those working toward compliance had been doing so for more than six months. This may be linked to the fact that 70% of respondents believe that the penalties for non-compliance will only occasionally be levied, and 23% believe that fines would 'almost never' be issued.
An overwhelming majority of respondents believe that the main threats to cardholder security now come from within the organisation, as 78% of respondents cited 'insiders with access to data' as the main threat ahead of 'external attackers' or 'business partners.'
Adam Evans, senior security specialist for NetIQ comments: "Although companies have been working hard to achieve the PCI standards, compliance obviously eludes the majority of them and for many proves a long and arduous struggle. Tools like ours exist to ease the burden and speed up the process. Compliance represents a significant long-term commitment of resources, although the cost of a security breach and the subsequent damage to an organisation's brand could be far greater - it's a risk that's not worth taking." | https://www.pressebox.com/inactive/netiq-deutschland-gmbh/Majority-of-companies-are-still-failing-to-comply-with-PCI-Data-Security-Standard-reveals-survey/boxid/188478 |
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Trash removal of unused files and picture messages to free up hard drive space.
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Backup and restore contacts to an SD card or to our server.
This allows users to retrieve their complete contact list to the same or a different device, making sure the loss of a device does not equate to the lost of precious contacts.
This feature also to eases the process of upgrading to a new phone, as it is available cross-platform to Android and Symbian devices.
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Anti-lost runs with remote control-like functions, providing worldwide protection for financial losses and privacy leakage.
‘Anti-lost’ allows users to locate a lost phone, sound an alarm on it, and trace where exactly it is.
If the user gives up on the possibility of getting the device back, the content on the phone can be completely deleted via simple remote commands sent to the phone.
Access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, WiFi) location.
Monitor incoming SMS messages, to record or perform processing on them.
Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager.
Find out the space used by any package.
PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Access information about networks.
Create mock location providers for testing.
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Change Wi-Fi connectivity state. | https://thetechjournal.com/electronics/android/netqin-mobile-security-keep-your-android-device-virus-free.xhtml |
If you have Malware on your computer it will cause annoyances and will damage your system. You should either:
A. Manually remove the infected files from your computer, or
B. Automatically scan your system using trusted software
[email protected] is a mass-mailing worm that spreads through email. It specifically spreads by sending email messages to email addresses it finds in files that have the extensions .asp, .htm, and .php. After [email protected] is executed, it may copy itself to %Windir%\Kangaroo.exe and %System%\Internat67.exe. It may also add values to the registry to ensure that it runs every after Windows starts up. The worm attempts to terminate certain processes especially those related to security processes (e.g. Firewall, Alarm, Secure, Clean, Anti, etc). The worm sends itself to all the email addresses it finds in files that have .asp, .php, and .htm extensions. The email messages contain the subject “New Security Vuln”, a body that contains the message “Are you vulnerable to identity theft…”, and an attachment named Virus_Guard.exe.
The worm [email protected] can be manually removed from the system. First of all, the System Restore function must be temporarily disabled to ensure effective virus removal. Then, update the virus definitions. Use a reliable antivirus software program to run a full system scan on the computer. Delete all files that are detected as [email protected] Edit the Win.ini file. Reverse any changes made in the registry. Before making any changes in the registry, it is advised that you back up the registry. Mistakes in the registry can have serious consequences like permanent data loss or corrupted files. Reboot the computer and rescan the system to double check if the threat has been totally eliminated. | https://www.liutilities.com/malware/computer-worm/w32-kergez-c-mm/ |
Participate in Cyber Security assessments with a particular focus on Penetration Testing and Security Testing.
Work effectively as a team member, maintaining communication and updating senior team members and managers on progress.
Helping various stakeholders on reports and planning of Cyber Security implementations.
Working effectively with other departments such as risk and Audit to create Cyber Security assessments.
Understanding of the risk of manual attacks and good knowledge of conducting penetration testing and being able to conduct vulnerability assessments.
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Computer network programming involves writing computer programs that enable processes to communicate with each other across a computer network.
The Internet protocol suite is the conceptual model and set of communications protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks. It is commonly known as TCP/IP because the foundational protocols in the suite are the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol.
TCP/IP, or the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a suite of communication protocols used to interconnect network devices on the internet. TCP/IP can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (an intranet or an extranet).
Socket programming is a way of connecting two nodes on a network to communicate with each other. One socket(node) listens on a particular port at an IP, while other socket reaches out to the other to form a connection. Server forms the listener socket while client reaches out to the server.
A socket programming interface provides the routines required for interprocess communication between applications, either on the local system or spread in a distributed, TCP/IP based network environment. Once a peer-to-peer connection is established, a socket descriptor is used to uniquely identify the connection.
Java and C#/C++. cli/VB+ should support the creation of a socket server with relatively few lines of code, as (the same as python) they have already-made libraries supporting most of the functionality. They are more verbose than Python though so you'll write much more code.
The server socket listens for incoming connections. A server creates a socket, binds the socket to an IP address and port number (for TCP and UDP), and then listens for incoming connections. When a client connects to the server, a new socket is created for communication with the client (TCP only). | https://www.arturodevesa.com/post/computer-networks-networks-programming |
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You can revoke your consent at any time. Send an email to [email protected]. To the absolutely required extent only, certain personal data is then stored in a "Do not contact" list. | http://convergent-it.com/data-protection/ |
EPC Inc. Improves IT Operations with Actionable Insights
EPC Inc. is one of the premier IT asset recovery and end-of-life IT asset handling solution providers in the United States. Clients trust EPC to secure, process, and thoroughly wipe devices before repurposing or de-manufacturing according to local and ISO 14001 environmental standards.
EPC originally deployed LogRhythm back in 2012 to meet security and compliance needs. But after seeing LogRhythm in action, Michael Sweeney, IT manager, dug in to see how he could use the platform to improve operational processes. As the head of the lean group responsible for overseeing global IT operations and partner data, keeping everything running smoothly was a daily challenge for the team.
The Struggle to Troubleshoot Operational Issues
The team constantly encountered difficult-to-troubleshoot operational issues. Ultimately, the team had insufficient information about the events, which hindered their ability to determine the root cause of the problems. The operations team could resolve the issues, but they had little insight as to why the failures occurred so often and how to prevent them from happening again.
This break/fix cycle left the struggling team short on resources, full of frustration, and with a decreased ability to serve internal customers. The team needed a better way to troubleshoot IT issues.
Breaking the Break/Fix Cycle with Improved Efficiencies
Fortunately, with LogRhythm, the EPC team has been able to disrupt this seemingly endless cycle. By feeding every possible source of activity logs from all around the world into LogRhythm, the team has all the data it needs in one place, so they can troubleshoot operational problems and fix recurring issues. This efficiency has not only enabled the team to decrease server downtime and outages, but also save time and money.
Even more importantly, the team has been able to set up alerts that indicate an emerging situation before it turns into a real issue. Enabling them to be proactive rather than reactive.
“The visibility into the infrastructure and being able to see what events are widespread is so helpful,” says Sweeney. “LogRhythm has shown us things that we didn’t know before. It has shed light into areas that we have now been able to improve.”
To learn more about how LogRhythm has enabled EPC to streamline and improve IT operations read the full case study. | https://logrhythm.com/blog/epc-improves-it-operations-with-actionable-insights/ |
As we provide a platform for deskless workers, there’s one thing all our customers have in common: working from home is seldom an option.
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You get the point… There are many, many things we cannot control, and we need a plan to deal with these uncertain events. Risk management is all about building this plan, including relevant variables and possible events, and establishing contingencies to handle them in the best possible way. In risk management we want to create a systematic approach, a disciplined strategy, to control and reduce risks.
When we talk about risk management, we must first understand what is a risky or uncertain event. Technically they are not the same: risky events have known probabilities for the possible outcomes, while uncertain events do not have definite probabilities (although we can estimate them). However, we can simplify our life by seeing them as very closely related and, most of the times, the same thing (because we hardly ever have definite probabilities for the outcomes and almost everything ends up being an estimation). There are two types of risks:
Those that you know might happen: these are the potential problems we clearly identify while planning the project. Maybe the weather will not cooperate with our construction project, or maybe the government will issue a law that will increase the regulatory costs for our company. We don’t know what exactly will happen, but we know what could happen. This allows us to create strategies to deal with the risky events should they become true.
Those that you don’t know might happen: these problems come unexpectedly. I’m sorry to break the news, but we simply cannot predict and control everything. We also cannot identify every single possible uncertainty of a project. However, we should expect the unexpected: it always happens at some point of our project. What we can (and should) do is to try to identify (put under the “known unknowns”) all the critical risks of our project and try to make sure that the impact of the unknown unknowns will hardly ever be critical.
Unfortunately it might be the case that you think risk management is of secondary importance: “I should focus on what will happen for sure and I shouldn’t spend that much effort on shielding my project against uncertain events.” However, if you think hard enough about the topic (assuming that, just like me, you like to think), you will inevitably reach the conclusion that risk management is the primary task of a project manager. Here is the argument: when you plan your project, you write down the things you want to happen in the order you want them to happen and with the budget you want them to happen. Apart from executing the work itself, this is pretty much all the focus you can give to certain events: write them down and include them in your planning. If only certain events happen, there is absolutely no space for problems. And yet, innumerable problems seem to arise in every project. Delayed schedule, overrun budget, low-quality suppliers, you name it. Just one of these events can be enough to completely invalidate your initial planning (if there is absolutely no flexibility in it). So very well, you can focus solely on certain events, but the resulting plan will be extremely sensitive to risky situations. This is why the primary task of the project manager is to study in details the potential impact of each relevant uncertain situation and design a plan that has enough flexibility to deal with them. It follows more or less the same principle of designing a building resistant to earthquakes: you may say that earthquakes will not happen at all and design a rigid building that will immediately collapse if any minor tremor happens; or you can design a building with some flexibility to stand earthquakes up to a certain intensity level. However, just as extremely strong earthquakes might destroy even flexible buildings, extremely significant uncertain events might crash your project plan no matter how flexible it is.
All the techniques we discuss in this course are, in a certain way, risk management techniques: how to account for variations in personnel availability, how to use different cost estimation processes to create a more precise budget, how to build a schedule that includes some flexibility in the tasks without strongly affecting the final deadline, etc.
Now we know why and where risk management is important. But how to conduct it? The problem is… risks vary drastically from industry to industry, from company to company, even from year to year within the same company. So instead of presenting an exhaustive list of defined risks for you with a strict strategy for each of them, the best way is to present a framework of how to conduct a risk management analysis. Then you will be able to look at the specific risks of your company and perform a structured evaluation of them to generate a valid strategy.
Have a look at the figure below. It shows the standard framework of the risk management process.
Brainstorming is more effective with internal personnel. Brainstorming is not simply stuffing everyone inside a room with a flipchart and writing down everything that comes to your heads. There are ways of improving the efficiency of brainstorming and focusing it on the issue at hand. First, make sure that the people present in the meeting are aware of the subject. Did you send them the project plan? Did they read it? How will they be involved in the project? Second, set a determined duration for the brainstorming session. “What? But… We shouldn’t limit the brainstorming! We should go for as long as it is necessary…” you might say. I agree with the “shouldn’t limit” part, but I strongly disagree with the “as long as necessary” part. Maybe you found yourself in this situation as well: trying to solve a math exercise for hours without success and, while taking a break (a shower, a coffee, the toilet, whatever), magically coming up with the solution. Why does this happen? When we focus for too long on the same issue, we end up trying different variations of a very narrow set of tools to try to solve it. When we allow our brains to change the focus, it drops this narrow set and expands the perception of the problem, usually coming up with a nice solution. So how can we apply the principle to brainstorming? Simply split the process into two or three sessions in consecutive days. Instead of sitting three hours in a room (with a very productive first hours and two amazingly unproductive subsequent hours) in one day, sit one hour for three days. The break will allow not only you but also your team to come up with more and better ideas.
By using this process, generate a list of potential risks. Don’t look at how the risks looks like: “an apocalyptic thunderstorm will hit our construction site” is as good as “our suppliers will delay the delivery of raw material”. No value judgments here; let the group be as creative as possible. Then, at the end of each meeting, have a quick look through the risks, group similar ones and discard very unlikely ones. You may also want to order them, but it is better to do it in the last meeting once you will not focus on generating ideas anymore.
How would you describe the risks involved in your project? A simple yet effective way is to describe two dimensions: the condition, or the situation that is causing you concern or uncertainty, and the consequence, or the possible negative outcomes that might result from the condition. Be sure to describe the condition clearly, as it is essential for an accurate estimation of its impact.
Once the condition is defined, it is time to assess the cost, schedule and material consequences (likely damages) that the realization of the risk might bring to the project. Let’s imagine how we would define the condition and the consequences. For that, imagine that we are a construction company working on a new building.
Condition: the soil conditions for the foundation require a special bulldozer with which the company has little experience.
Consequence: operating the bulldozer incorrectly will damage it and the current state of the construction. The total costs of repairing the bulldozer and the construction site may vary from $40,000.00 to $150,000.00 and it might take anything between 3 and 5 weeks for the repairs to be completed.
Since we have a range for the cost and for the schedule of the repair, we will have to estimate some probabilities and calculate the expected cost of our risk. While the safest approach would be to simply attribute a 100% change for the highest cost and the longest schedule delay, this could lead to unrealistic forecasts and to sensible increases in cost and schedule estimation, resulting in an infeasible project. So let’s revise a bit of probability theory (I assume you already know it, but if you don’t… what we will see here is very basic, so you should be able to understand it) and incorporate it to our example.
How Probability Theory Improves Risk Management
Probability theory works with determining, based on information we already have, what are is the probability of the realization of an event. If you throw a dice, the probability of obtaining a 6 is simply 1/6. If you throw the dice twice, the probability of getting a 6 and a 4, in this order, is just 1/6 times 1/6. Of course our estimations of probabilities will be pretty hard to make, specially because there are infinitely many things that could go wrong with the bulldozer and each one of them has a different likelihood of happening (unlike a fair dice, which has the same probability for each face).
In any case, we will have to come up with some numbers and probabilities if we want to quantify the expected impact of a risk on our project. I would recommend reading the golden rules of estimation before continuing here, as they describe several ways of obtaining reliable data for your estimations. One of them is the analysis of historical data; in our case, however, this is not really useful because, as stated in the condition, we have little experience with the bulldozer (so there is little historical data on what could go wrong). What exists, and we should look at it, is historical data about other equipments that were new at some point in our company (this is why it is important to keep a record of your risks, so you can come back to them later and learn from them), and we can look at the high and low estimations of costs to compare them with the real figures. However, assessing the probabilities of a risk will always require a lot of creativity and intuition. Your historical data might give you some clues, but there will always be something new that will require an innovative approach: probability assignment is both art and science.
Probabilities of risks help you to calculate their consequences. The expected value of the risk is given by the product between the probability of the risk and the impact it will cause:
We can then consider a strategy to deal with the problem: hire one person who is a specialist in dealing with the bulldozer for the job. Hiring the person costs $12,000.00 and it reduces the probabilities of damage to:
5% probability of $40,000.00 damage; 2% probability of $150,000.00 damage;
Which is clearly less than our initial expected value of the risk. Therefore, our strategy seems to be cost efficient and we would choose to hire this specialist to work with the bulldozer.
If there is absolutely no hard data for you to work with, you can still assess probabilities based on subjective methods. Let’s consider one process that relies on subjective judgments from the team members. From 1 to 5 (5 being the most likely), the probability of the risk.
Then you multiply these two numbers and obtain a score for the risk. If this score is above the specified threshold (say, 7), the risk must be analyzed further. Pretty simple, huh? Just one remark: make sure to use the same matrix throughout the project, since the likelihood and impact of the risk are both subjective measures and should be done always with respect to the same reference point. If you want, you can also use more or less numbers for the scale, but you shouldn’t use too many as this will make the entire process very confusing (if you use a scale from 1 to 20, what is exactly the difference between an impact of 13 and one of 14?)
Probability assessment is done for a very simple reason: it allows you to order the risks and treat the most relevant ones first. By combining subjective and objective methods, you can rank them and focus first on the risks at the top and later on the risks at the bottom.
Reducing the Risks of the Project
Ok, so far we have focused on identifying and defining the risks. Once this is done, we still have to develop the strategy to deal with them. So how can we reduce the risk of an event? We can either reduce the probability of its realization or we can reduce the impact of the uncertain event (or we can do both). In our previous example, hiring the bulldozer operator reduces the probability of damaging the machine, but it doesn’t change the impact of the risk if it happens. For an example of reducing the impact of the risk, imagine that we hire an insurance for the bulldozer: we pay $20,000.00 for the insurance and it will cover any costs should the machine be damaged. This reduces the impact of the risk, but it doesn’t change the probabilities. Which one is the best strategy? That’s up to you to decide.
There are five basic types of risk response strategies that reduce either the probability or the impact (or both) of the risk.
How to detect the risk (detectability). How will your team detect the risk in time to respond to it? You and your team should discuss how difficult it is to detect a risk and adjust your response based on it. If a risk is hard to detect and has a low impact on the project, you might not want to spend much effort on monitoring and responding to it. If a risk, however, is hard to detect but has a great impact on the project, you will want to monitor it closely and spend more resources on your contingency plan.
When to stop monitoring and start acting (trigger events). Think about your weekend barbecue in the park. The sky is mildly cloudy, and you saw on the weather forecast a slight probability of rain. In the middle of the barbecue, you feel a few drops of water on your face; how long should you wait before packing everything and going home? The trigger event is what defines the threshold between monitoring and acting (i.e. implementing your contingency plan). Think about the trigger events for your risk. An example: say our uncertain event will cause a regular increase in the cash outflow of our project for the next few weeks. We have two risk response strategies: a contingency fund and an alternative design for our product. You observe the extra cash amount paid every week and you make the following decision: “I will use the contingency fund and not change the design if the extra costs do not exceed X per week and do not show an increasing trend; otherwise, I will change the design of the product.” This specifies two trigger events: one is the threshold X for our weekly extra cost, the other one is the presence of an increasing trend in the expenses.
Strategy 04: Transferring the Risk
Transferring the risk means, wait for it, making someone else deal with it or pay for it. Naturally, this is usually not free of charge. Insurances are the best example of risk transfer that I can think of: you pay a certain amount and if the risk becomes true the insurance will deal with the costs. You might be asking: how much such I pay for the insurance? While this is a complex question, I always keep two principles in mind. The expected cost of the risk has two components: the probabilistic monetary component and the psychological component. Humans usually don’t like risks and are willing to pay a certain amount to avoid them (what we call Risk Premium in finance). So you should consider these two aspects when hiring an insurance (it might be the case that the cost of the insurance slightly exceeds the expected monetary cost of the risk but you are still willing to pay for it simply to eliminate the risk altogether).
Another way to transfer the risk is to hire an expert to do the job. Our previous example with the construction company does exactly this: it hires someone to do the job in order to reduce the risk of damaging the bulldozer.
A third way of transferring the risk is the use of outsourcing or external contracts. While the flexible-price contract is effective in transferring risks, it is the fixed-price contract that offers the most reliable situation. Why? Because in the flexible contract you will still have to pay a higher amount if the contractor runs into some trouble while doing the job. In a fixed-price contract the amount paid will not change, so it’s the sole responsibility of the contractor to deal with the risks and uncertain events.
We already saw how important historical data can be when dealing with uncertain events. The starting point for collecting historical data is recording the risk management strategies properly. You may want to keep a table or an excel sheet with the information.
When filling the risk log, make sure that each and every risk has a responsible person and rank the risks based on impact and probability (the most important ones should be listed at the top).
Step 03: Developing Contingency and Reserve Funds
This step is fairly straightforward: since there is risk and uncertainty in your project, you should create reserves and funds to be used in case a risk occurs. For the known uncertainties it is possible to create a more detailed contingency plan (based on your risk log). Since we know the extent of the possible damage, we know that some money should be set aside for it. But how much? Assessing the amount is sometimes difficult, so here are a few steps to follow in order to create a better estimation for the contingency fund:
For each risk that has a “contingency plan” strategy, estimate the additional amount of cash required to execute this contingency plan. Then use the expected value formula to derive the expected cost of each risk.
Add the individual expected costs up and you will obtain a final estimation for the contingency funds. And everybody will hate it, because the number will be quite high if you consider every single cost in your risk log. That’s the moment when you start negotiating with top management.
There is no hero or villain when negotiating. The problem is: we don’t know the actual amount of money we will need. If we set too much money aside, we might run short of funds on other projects; if we set too little, we might not be able to pay for the response strategy if the risk becomes true.
While reserves for known risks are usually the focus of contingency plans, they are not the only reserves you should worry with. You should also set some money aside as a “general reserve” for unknown risks. The amount you will set aside will be defined mostly based on experience, but a common practice is to calculate it as a percentage of the budget based on the work breakdown structure.
Step 04: Implementing Risk Management Continuously
Remember what we discussed about phased estimation in our cost estimation article? In phased estimation, we would take the information from the previous phase and use it to improve our future forecasts. Continuous risk management follows the same principle: at the beginning we have a rough idea of the most relevant risks, but as the project goes on we have to revise our initial plans to integrate new data. Continuous risk management also means monitoring the risk strategies for their efficiency and updating them accordingly. You want to be in touch with stakeholders in order to identify which risks are still relevant and whether there are new uncertainties that should be considered. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
Update the risk log regularly to include the most recent information about the risks.
Discuss possible new risks during the meetings with your stakeholders. You will not spend as much time as the first meeting when you thought about all the risks, but you should approach the matter regularly in order to identify new risks.
Perform the main activities related to risk identification at predefined moments within the project.
Remove from the risk log the risks that didn’t materialize and are not relevant anymore. This relieves your reserves and allows reallocation of contingency funds. | https://www.celoxis.com/project-management/chapter/risk-management |
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I use Microsoft Security Essentials for my Windows machines. If you are willing to pay money, then Nod32 is pretty good. Avoid Norton's-- it's a resource hog.
I haven't used McAfee quite a few years, so I have no idea how well that engine works any more or how much in the way of resources it takes up.
I’ve been working IT for a long time now and the best way to protect a computer is common sense and a good firewall. PCTOOLS firewall plus will do it for you. With it you can stop damage or undesired operation by governing how programs access your system, kernel, and other apps. In this program it’s called ESP and is very powerful in windows. If you install a new application or just execute a program it will monitor what resources are being accessed and prevent access until a user allows it. I have used infected programs without any problems because it won’t give access to files that can do damage.
Antivirus from my experience causes more problems than preventing them.
I had a mate come to me one day telling me he couldn’t get on the internet because of an infected system file, ping.exe was the target. Because his antivirus just puts it in a “vault” the exe becomes useless. If he had a firewall that wasn’t windows basic firewall this would have been prevented. With a msg that stated. but antivirus won’t do that for you in most cases. Once you trust an application if it’s smart enough it can do what it wants when it wants because antivirus looks for known attacks or code that causes problems. Firewalls just keep your systems integrity by permitting access to files on a need to basis.
Antivirus in my opinion is just as bad as a virus.
Most anti-virus programs will allow you to go into the settings and change what happens when a "virus" is encountered. A program does what the user tells it to do. That doesn't make anti-virus programs bad. The user should always make sure that the program they install has the correct settings. Your average user should always have an anti-virus program.
anti-virus is used when the user doesn’t have sufficient knowledge of computer programs and features. Speaking as an IT Manager now just been promoted yay for me, we do not use anti-virus software at all. If you get access to a sufficient firewall so you can permit or deny access to resources and files that’s all a computer needs. There are programs that I have used that are so damage driven aka being a viruses if it were a person, I would shoot it in the face. But I would be happy for a person to run any program like this on my network because I manage a network firewall and a workstation firewall. All im trying to achieve here is to teach people that anti virus is for novas computer users. Anti virus will not stop a hacker, trust me. A fresh install of windows with just anti virus software is so easy to hack my sister could hack in.
Sorry to sound so negative towards ant virus but my best advice is to learn firewalls its your only hope.
Speaking as an IT Manager...
I don't see where even the most thorough of packet state inspection will prevent a worm from spreading itself to other machines on the local network, either.
Congratulations on the new job. This attitude you are displaying does not put you in a good light, though and it does not reflect well on this website which, let's be frank, is geared toward the novice computer user.
People can't learn firewalls overnight. A poorly implemented and managed firewall is just as bad as a default AV package coming with a new computer-- it gives the user a false sense of security and allows the bad guys to have their run of the system.
I would think that an IT manager would use all the tools at his disposal, including local AV software.
Sure, firewalls can prevent external access to the machines, and some will even block malware calls out, but a firewall can't stop stupid user A from uploading malware to his local machine via USB drive. You’re thinking of a networking firewall. From this statement I will re explain the concept. There are firewalls that are made to protect the operating system by governing kernel access as well as disk access. So if you had a usb in my office and tried to upload a virus you would be fired in a few hours because it detects usb drives and prevents execution if that file is accessing resources that could infect the workstation. There is a reason I am the it manager, its because I know what I’m talking about.
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The SQL Server team commissioned the development company 3 Leaf to conduct the productivity studies. Microsoft provided 3 Leaf with a baseline application specification that contained a simple database of all the content for an example newspaper Web site called Contoso Times and a set of enhancements to add into the Web site (Custom and Ad-Hoc Reporting, Middle-Tier Caching, Offline Smart Client Application, Paid Articles and Subscriptions, and Targeted Advertising). Because Oracle 10g R2's release date was late in the study calendar, the Oracle comparison measured the differences for only the Custom and Ad-Hoc Reporting and Offline Smart Client Application enhancements.
3 Leaf rebuilt the Web site in three environments—ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2000, and Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle 10g R2—and implemented the enhancements without help from Microsoft or the SQL Server team. A 3 Leaf developer was assigned to each environment rebuild. All had approximately the same amount of experience in their respective environments.
During the study, the developers kept daily diaries of their procedures, problems, and successes. The full 63-page diary is the basis of the study's final whitepapers, which are posted on MSDN's Web site. (To read the entire study, see the Microsoft articles "Comparing Enterprise Development Productivity: SQL Server 2005 versus SQL Server 2000" at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/compare/devprod2000.mspx and "Comparing Enterprise Development Productivity: SQL Server 2005 versus Oracle Database 10g" at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/compare/oracle/devprodoracle.mspx.) As Table 1 shows, the development time for developer is considerably less than and Oracle 10g R2 developers' times for each enhancement and for the overall total. On average, developer completed the tasks 34.4 hours faster than developer and 47.3 hours faster than the Oracle 10g R2 developer. For all tested enhancements, developer's total time to complete the tasks was 173 hours faster than developer and 94.5 hours faster than the Oracle 10g R2 developer.
To achieve the same functionality, developer had to build a custom encryption class in Visual Studio that had to process all the data that needed to be encrypted.
When building the Targeted Advertising enhancement, developer benefited from the ability to create triggers in C#.This feature let him encapsulate both the encryption calls and the fulltext search and matching algorithms within the database. For the same task, developer had to extract the data to another tier, in which he had to decrypt the data before performing a match between an advertisement and a specific piece of content. This SQL Server 2000 procedure was more difficult to implement than procedure and slowed the system's performance.
The final key feature that aided SQL Server 2005's productivity was Reporting Services—specifically Report Builder. While building the Custom and Ad-Hoc Reporting enhancement, and Oracle developers had to build a custom solution while developer simply deployed Report Builder, which provides the Ad-Hoc reporting functionality in a shrink-wrapped product.
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If everything is as it should be all of the above are adorned with a green tick—i.e. everything is as right as rain. Go to "Security" if you wish to scan your device manually.
Whenever a new app is installed Lookout will scan it “on the fly”, which is brilliant, as it means one doesn’t have to perform a manual scan.
I did the test by introducing one of the virus-ridden apps from the Market, and was immediately notified that the app was dangerous—hurrah!
The “Privacy Invader” scans your apps and informs you which apps are accessing your location, telephone number, serial number, SMS & MMS, etc.
This function is especially advantageous to those users who tend to ignore the terms & conditions when installing apps; suspicious applications can hence be detected even after you’ve installed them. I also appreciate the fact that users are explicitly told that the lists of apps with which Lookout comes up with isn’t a list of “bad” apps, but rather that’s an indication of potentially “bad” apps.
The only information you’ll find when you click on “Backup” or “Missing Device” is that you can secure, locate, block and delete your phone, as well as make it “scream” via the website.
When you visit the application’s website you’ll find that you can log in (top left) using your number or email address and password.
When logging in via your phone number please note that you must include your country’s international access code.
After you’ve logged in you are greeted by an overview of the smartphone.
The “Security” tab displays the results of the virus scan; there’s not much else to see aside from that.
“Backup” allows you to secure images, call registers and contacts—that’s a bit meek! I would expect an option to secure SMS/MMS as well as files saved to the SD card… that would be especially useful for the case that one were to lose one’s phone.
Aside from this the option’s functionality works brilliantly.
Go to “Missing device” in order to locate your phone or have to emit loud noises. The two functions are especially effective when used in combination for the case that you’ve misplaced your Android. Use the latter when you simply can’t locate your phone in your own home or office (i.e. in glorious situation such as when your phone has slipped behind the sofa cushions or is still in the back pocket of the trousers you were wearing last night).
There are also two premium functions which can be activated for about 3$/month: blocking and/or deleting your smartphone from a distance. Both work just as well as the app’s other functions, meaning that should you ever lose your phone you can rest assured that your data is safe.
There is, however, one big problem with all of the above: NONE of the functions work if your device isn’t connected to the internet. The app can’t be activated via SMS—or should I say that it didn’t work when I tested it from my provider. | http://www.androidpit.com/lookout-mobile-security-the-security-suite |
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Some researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabZ have discovered a new type of ransomware for Android inside OK (Odnoklassniki), a Russian entertainment social network application.
The clean application has between 50 and 100 million downloads from the Google Play Store, but the infected one is available via third party application stores.
The virus stays quiet for four hours, permitting the user to perform his regular activity on the phone, unlike other ransomware variants that encrypt the data right after the infection. After the four hour interval, the application asks for administrative rights, changes the unlock password, locks the screen and sets the lock-screen password expiration. If the user taps cancel, the administrative prompt reappears quickly and does not permit the user to take any other action on the phone.
The ransom is only 500 rubles, the equivalent of $9.
The researchers have managed to discover that the ransomware does not sent the user’s data to a server and is incapable of unlocking the user’s phone. So, if the victim pays the ransom, the virus will stop operating, but the user will not be able to access his data anymore.
Due to the fact that the ransomware malware does not take any action in the four hours, the antivirus software cannot detect it, so it can be easily injected in the Google Play Store Apps.
A piece of advice: Do not install apps from unknown sources and disable the unknown sources installation feature from the phone’s settings.
If however you get infected with this, you need to boot into Safe Mode, remove the device admin privilege of the ransomware app, remove the app itself and reboot your device back in regular mode.
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What it is: James Comey’s latest book explains how encryption drove the FBI crazy.
Fired FBI director, James Comes, recently wrote a book called “A Higher Loyalty” where he says that Apple and Google’s default encryption on their mobile devices drove the FBI crazy. One of the quotes from the book says:
I found it appalling that the tech types couldn’t see this. I would frequently joke with the FBI “Going Dark” team assigned to seek solutions, “Of course the Silicon Valley types don’t see the darkness–they live where it’s sunny all the time and everybody is rich and smart.”
The problem with the FBI’s view of encryption is that they want companies like Apple and Google to make encryption easy for the US government to crack. What that means is that such encryption would also make it easy for everyone else to crack, rendering the encryption useless.
So the question boils down to either having encryption on or off. There’s no in between. It’s impossible for encryption to be one for the good guys but easily crackable for the bad guys. That’s like saying math should only be used by good guys and banned from bad guys. For the government to constantly insist on encryption backdoors shoes a clear lack of understanding how encryption works. The government might as well try to van the law of gravity from bad guys as well.
Anyone who argues that encryption should only work for the government clearly does not understand encryption at all. To make such uneducated and inaccurate statements supporting encryption backdoors shows ignorance of the topic. If government officials won’t educate themselves on how encryption works, they’re doing the public a huge disservice by advocating for something that’s clearly impossible.
Any thinking person who takes time to understand encryption will come to the conclusion that encryption backdoors simply will not work. The moment someone advocates for encryption backdoors, that’s a clear signal that person has no idea what they’re talking about and is broadcasting their blatant ignorance for everyone to see. The trouble is that many other people will also believe in such myths and fail to learn about the fundamentals of encryption.
A topic such as backdoor encryption should be easily dealt with through facts alone. Nobody is arguing against the law of gravity, yet government officials are arguing against a similar impossibility as encryption backdoors. The next time any government official tells you hat encryption backdoors are necessary, that’s a clear sign to question that person’s intelligence.
To read more about James Comey’s claims supporting encryption backdoors, click here. | http://www.topbananas.com/2018/04/the-fbi-still-doesnt-understand-encryption/ |
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I’m a big fan of scripting and automating administration—in fact I wrote a book that was all about practical uses of VBScript to administer Windows enterprises (Windows Administration Resource Kit ). So when I learned that Windows PowerShell was going to be the primary command-line interface for SharePoint 2010, cmdlets and all, I was very excited!
I imagined all kinds of uses for PowerShell. Site collection owners could use it to provision sites for their customers. Group owners could use it to manage group membership, or keep a SharePoint group in sync with Active Directory (AD). Content owners could have little scripts that used business logic to create or update content in SharePoint.
Then governance kicked in and that all-important part of governance—security—which trumps all. Sadly, there’s bad news for anyone who had big visions for using PowerShell to automate “anything” in SharePoint, and all we’re left with is a very capable, but perhaps not “Power”, shell. Sorry to rain on your parade.
Earlier this month, I wrote about how to delegate PowerShell access by using the Add-SPAdmin cmdlet. First, let me add one note that I failed to include in that article: The article focused on how you grant permissions (the SharePoint_Shell_Access role) to the SQL content databse. There’s one other requirement on the SharePoint side: users must be a Site Collection Administrator in order to use PowerShell. Not just an owner, member, visitor, or even a user with full control of a site—the Site Collection Administrator.
You might already be able to see where all of this is going. A “normal” user who happens to need to update content automatically, or manage group membership, or do anything else really, cannot use PowerShell without being a Site Collection Administrator. That is a lot of power, and probably more than you’d want to give most users.
But there’s more. The SharePoint_Shell_Access role is nested into the db_owner role on the SQL side. That’s right: In order to use PowerShell to do anything with SharePoint, you need to be a db_owner, which gives you the ability to read, modify, and destroy the database—for good or for evil, intentionally or accidentally.
There’s no delegation of specific rights or privileges, and PowerShell doesn’t “security trim” your capabilities.
I was assuming that PowerShell, since it uses the SharePoint object model, would simply expose what I can do with SharePoint as a user—what I have permission to do.
Instead, I need to be handed the keys to the shop in order to use PowerShell to do anything. That’s an enormous disappointment to me, because I’m not going to split my infrastructure into more site collections, let alone assign more site collection administrators, to use PowerShell to automate “anything” in SharePoint.
Just to be clear, PowerShell is extremely well suited to perform actions that a db_owner and Site Collection Administrator would perform. But even at that level, you’re going to have to consider PowerShell delegation as you decide what site collections go in which content databases, which is part of designing governance.
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The Windows Vista users, who have CIS version 3.5.57173.439 or older installed(32 and 64 bit), are going to have 2 updates because of the nature of this release.
* The first update is going to update some critical files that are necessary in order to continue with the second update.
* Then the second update is going to finalize the upgrading process to version 3.8.65951.477
Installed it on my Vista 64 and set it up for training mode and ran all my apps even AA AE. Rebooted and set everything to safe mode and had some of my apps not start up thought to myself that it was not fixed. Looked at the logs but strangely nothing was reported as being blocked and nothing was even shown in the firewall log at all.
Had to manually set them as trusted (again they all were just ran in training mode) so I should not have to do this. Rebooted leaving it in safe mode and everything worked except for Avira antivirus (did not install CIS antivirus). Again looked at the logs and nothing about it being blocked and it still was listed as a safe app. Again went back to learning mode added it again as safe, set CIS back to safe mode and rebooted and everything works now.....so far....
I even tried CIS, see https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=234443 runs great (better) in this setting
After install I browsed the comodo forum and found another great post of Melih. I though the Comodo Leak Test was a marketing tool (Comodo scores 100%, competitors may not, so Comodo is best). But he actually Melih asks his users to test it to check misconfiguration.
Pitty the CLT itself is not very accurate, it claims succes on dubious observations: to name one: vulnarable to direct disk access is only tested with read, not write So when a competitor has a more defensive and useable implementation by checking on direct disk WRITE access, it will fail miserably on this test ).
Melih is a great CEO, not only does he provide great software for free, the man is also a great stand up comedian, and he writes a great blog. A must read IMO.
Downloaded and installed CIS 3.8.65951.477 with the Threatcast option yesterday and I'm loving it.
I experienced a couple of problems with the previous version I tried (3.8.64739.471), particularly a glitch involving FPs and the ability to permanently exclude items from a full scan.
Version ... 477 seems to have corrected those annoyances and is- so far- running as smoothly as anything I've tried in a while; a remarkable achievement for a Beta version of something as complicated as a security suite.
Along with those improvements, the AV scanner seems to be faster, and I know I'm getting fewer pop-ups.
Been having problems on my wife's ASSU laptop since the update last week.
There were instances of the Desktop not loading (Black screen & pointer) and an occasion where Vista was trying to configer updates and had stuck.
I had also noticed Comodo was "updating" far to regular, about 3 times in consecutive days!. So I tried a reinstall. Comodo updated again.... so there is something not quite right with 477 on Vista.
However on XP, no problems at all! I've installed another firewall on the laptop.
Just an update to my earlier post.
On XP SP2 it's still running great with no problems.
However, on my laptop running Vista basic, well that's another story.
Started out very well but the reboot problems came up again.
It reboots up to the pre screen of my desk top and sits there until I give up on it.
Also had some problems with the updates not completeing.
Needless to say it's off my laptop again.
Have yet to find a version that works as well on Vista as XP.
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In one of his last acts as the head of the nation, President Obama pardoned or commuted the sentence of 273 more individuals. Two of the lucky individuals have historical relevance to the information security industry; Chelsea Manning and James Cartwright.
Manning (previously known as Bradley) was the individual who leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive military files to Wikileaks, potentially placing unvetted military intelligence into the wrong hands. Cartwright is the ex-general who leaked the U.S. connection to Stuxnet to the press. Watch today’s video to learn a bit more about this news, and my thoughts on these historic leaks.
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Access Control is a bit like the head office of your access systems. It looks after anything from security card readers on doors, barriers in car parks, locks, alarm systems, CCTV and much more.
Access control systems can also be linked to your I.T network and systems, for example staff databases that control who can access your building.
Some access control systems will use software that checks the details of staff/authorised people when they try to get in.
If you don’t keep the software and data maintained, then there is the potential of a member of staff who has left getting access to your building and systems. An insurance and GDPR nightmare!
Also, if your CCTV system is linked to your access control then it could have an adverse effect on how they operate.
Most of the time the company that supplies your access control systems carry out the maintenance.
For example, here at Mayfair Security we offer solutions for all aspects of access control, from installation to maintenance. You can see more here the Mayfair Access Control page on our website.
It is possible to hire another company just to carry out the maintenance but logically it makes good business sense to us, to have the company that supplied the system also carry out the maintenance work.
To ensure that all the different parts of your access control are maintained it is normally the case that you will have an agreed maintenance contract.
As we said earlier, here at Mayfair Security we can look after all the various aspects of access control and ensure your business will always be safe and secure. Whether you are a small or large company we have team of experts ready to help you every step of the way.
If you would like more info, then please get in touch via our contact page or you can phone us on 0808 178 0748.
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