Throughout history, guard dogs, canons, moats, and drawbridges have kept intruders out of homes and businesses. These preventative measures merely block off entrances, offer little, if anything, in the way of proactively preventing threats, and don’t let you make adjustments on the fly. Today’s businesses face a similar predicament. Maybe there aren’t any moats or Read more…
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Nothing is as frustrating as when something goes wrong, especially when you have time constraints. NIST has just released Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4: Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations where a few notable items have been added to increase the confidence that security, practices, procedures and architectures of information systems Read more…
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In a recent Technical Brief by Enterprise Strategy Group Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik titled, “Large Organizations are Way Behind on IT Risk Management,” he reflects in the abstract, “Without rapid IT risk management progress, many organizations remain sitting ducks for cybercrime, industrial espionage, or catastrophic denial of service attacks.” Read the entire brief on the McAfee Read more…
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Bob Carr, the CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, which suffered one of the largest breaches in history, was quoted in SC Magazine as saying “The audits done by our QSAs were of no value whatsoever.” Ouch! SC Magazine points out what we’ve seen in the last year that CIOs that start with a mind-set to understand the risk in Read more…
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