From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Episode 42 – Stepping up to meet security challenges

by Tom Olzak on October 28, 2006

in SBN

Commentary on iPods in business, security as a process, and how some programming teams are stepping up to meet security challenges.

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Know thy Business – really, I mean it…

by Bill P on October 24, 2006

in SBN

Interesting article in today’s Computerworld feed. Something that I’ve been harping about to my peers for some number of years - and anyone that would listen – is the concept of Knowing the Business of Information Security. As Mary Brandel points out in her article, “The Team at the Top”, it is becoming increasingly important for the technology leaders at the top tiers to not only be good

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The Death of Information Security…

by Bill P on October 23, 2006

in SBN

I was going over some recent gradate work I had done a year or so ago, and came across an article of mine on Nicholas Carr’s take on “The End of Corporate Computing”. Now – from an InfoSec perspective – where does that place us? I’m not sure yet. This diatribe is a little over a year old, and Carr’s source article a little bit older. Maybe the title should be “The End of Central IT Security…

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Oracle patching Tsunami

by Bill P on October 18, 2006

in SBN

Yeah – it’s been quite here at InfoSecToday. I’ve been letting Mike and Steve run with our collectively demented thought processes. However this one from Oracle, posted on Computerworld piqued my interest this morning.One thing that we’ve all learned (the hard way) is that you must keep up with vendor patches to the best of your collective abilities. Of course, this does means that you do a

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Episode 41 – Cyber-Espionage

by Tom Olzak on October 15, 2006

in SBN

Customer Welfare vs. Vendor Public image, Establishing System Assurance, Cyber-espionage.

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Nice NIST Notes

by Bill P on October 4, 2006

in SBN

It’s been wild here in my organization for the last few weeks. My efforts to get InfoSecToday off the ground have been sidetracked more than a handful of times due to work, kids, old diesel cars, etc… . For those of you who don’t know me directly, I work for a Fortune 100 (almost) Property & Casualty insurer in the Northeast US. Several weeks ago, not only did we lose our fearless leader in

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Optional Client-Side Vulnerability Test Set Available

by Jack Walsh, ICSA Labs on October 3, 2006

in SBN

ICSA Labs offers both server-side & client-side network IPS testing.(...)

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Episode 40 – Keystroke Dynamics (KD)

by Tom Olzak on October 2, 2006

in SBN

Examination of biometrics in general. Introduction of Keystroke Dynamics as a low impact biometric alternative.

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