7 Sources of Data Breaches You’ll Never Hear About: Your Phone

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This post is the first in a series about preventable data breaches. Most Americans have received a letter, telling them that their personal information has been breached. But there are many breaches you’ll never hear about, and many of them are right under your nose. The first source we’ll explore is Your Phone and Personal [...]

Why people are not the problem in security and where to look (hint: grab a mirror)

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.  ~William W. Watt Over the last few years, we have been presented a series of reports, complete with statistics, suggesting the cause of security breaches is people. Whether external attackers taking advantage of individuals, insider mistakes [...]

Into the Breach – Audio Series – Chapter 11 (Outsource with Security and Success)

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Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

Into the Breach Audio Book Chapter 10: Reducing the Cost of Compliance

Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

Into the Breach – Audio Series – Chapter 6 (Implementing The Strategy to Protect Information)

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Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

Into the Breach – Audio Series – Chapter 5 (The Strategy to Protect Information)

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Welcome to the continuation of the Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk audio series. (Click this link) to learn more about this how this book solves today’s challenges and pick up a complete copy. This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged audio [...]

Firefox Patch Tuesday

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by Carl Anctil Background: A few months ago, Microsoft released (and silently installed through Windows Update) a .NET Framework Assistant add-on for the Firefox web browser. Microsoft installed this add-on to Firefox without warning the user that the add-on would be installed as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Security professionals, bloggers, [...]

Securing the Toughest Times

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by Ron Woerner Whether you call it lay-offs, downsizing, rightsizing, redundancies, a reduction in force, or whatever, a reduction in staff stinks.  Downturns in the economy often translate to a reduced volume of business, resulting in a correlated reduction in staff.  One of the hardest jobs in Security is ensuring that those who are asked [...]

Have a workable plan, or else…

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by Martin Fisher As we continue to discuss the Basic Truths of Incident Response Leadership, we’ve briefly gone over the three Basic Truths as well as done a deeper analysis of  “Succeeding By Planning to Fail”. This brings us to: Basic Truth #2: Have A Workable Plan, or Else As an Incident Response Leader, one [...]

Into the Breach – Audio Series – Chapter 1 (Breach: A Human Problem)

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Welcome to the audio series of Into the Breach: Protect Your Business by Managing People, Information and Risk (click this link to learn more about this book and pick up a complete copy – to get started on your personal journey). This series, underwritten by Configuresoft, now part of EMC, is the full and unabridged [...]