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In Chapter 6 of Into the Breach (click here to listen to the audio book version of the chapter), I shared a method I use to effectively assess people, information and risk – in their own context and with a personal connection. That success led to the creation of The Catalyst Method™ — a powerful [...]
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 breaches is people. Whether external attackers taking advantage of people, insider mistakes or [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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On Friday, The Web Squeeze posted an interview with me. We had a blast discussing backups, passwords, building more secure websites and a bit about the human paradox and Into the Breach. I’m impressed with The Web Squeeze (http://thewebsqueeze.com/) and hope to get more involved in additional ways. In the meantime, I really enjoyed the [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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