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The Cyber Power Index

January 27, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Despite concerns over Chinese and Russian cyber attacks, both countries ranked near the bottom in Legal and Regulatory Framework and Technology Infrastructure, implying difficulty developing and implementing security policy. From the results, technical skills, high educational attainment levels, open trade policies, and an innovative business environment were discovered to be the foundation to cyber power and excelling across categories. [read more]

FedCyber Webinar: The Security Development Lifecycle

January 19, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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While Microsoft is recognized as the leader in their Security Development Lifecycle, SDL is non-proprietary, platform agnostic, and suitable for organizations of any size. The tools for many SDL proceses can be downloaded for free and most content is published under Creative Commons License. [read more]

'Trustworthy Cyberspace': Federal R&D Priorities

January 8, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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In December 2011, the Executive Office of the President’s National Science and Technology Council  released Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program, a set of R&D priorities for U.S. government agencies. The White House released Trustworthy Cyberspace to guide... [read more]

2012 Tech Predictions

January 6, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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 Come explore the future with me, but be warned, the future is a big place, and 2012 is a small slice of time. It’s hard to be sure what the future holds, or how quickly the tech world will change. While I see all of the bellow predictions coming to pass sooner rather than later, I can’t promise we won’t be too busy playing with... [read more]

Are Security Pros Becoming Too Paranoid?

December 22, 2011 by Bryan Halfpap
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"Are we making ourselves paranoid? Like many computer security professionals, I tend to closely follow technology and security news, even though its often discouraging and depressing. It is routine to see articles disclosing general information about recent attacks and criminal successes (and sometimes criminal captures). " [read more]

Mobile Security: How Safe is Your Data?

December 22, 2011 by Thu Pham
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According to a recent Gartner study, smartphones accounted for 297 million (19%) of the 1.6 billion mobile phones sold in 2010. That’s 72.1% more smartphone sales than in 2009 and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down for 2011 and beyond. The advancements that have been made in the mobile market have been nothing more than unbelievable.... [read more]

Personal Information Online: How Much is Too Much?

December 21, 2011 by Maggie Fox
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"The inadvertent posting of non-sensitive personal information may seem innocent but there is a dark side to sharing your interests, location, and even favourite local pub. Studies have shown that we’re not choosing the best passwords, and the likes of Charlie Sheen, Anthony Weiner and New York Times’ Brian Stelter have proven anyone can make a bad social media move." [read more]

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Cloudy with a Chance of Wrecking Your Business Model

December 21, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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Cloud computing is changing the manner in which consumers and businesses buy, manage and use technology. However, the impact of cloud on technology providers is causing an even more pressing adjustment—as business models shift from simply selling and servicing technology to instead helping companies consume it. [read more]

The Elders of the Internet Have A Message for the U.S. Congress

December 16, 2011 by Bob Gourley
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The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) was founded in 1990 as a donor funded non-profit with a focus on fighting for internet freedoms. They frequently bring those fights to the courts by bringing lawsuits against large corporations and the government. They also work to provide information to inform legislators and the public at large... [read more]

How to Share Bad Project News

December 16, 2011 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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"It’s not the first time a company has wasted a lot of money. I saw your boss and mentioned this to him. His face turned red, but it was an understanding shade of red." [read more]

The Sum of All Fears: From Vulnerability to Exploit, the Importance of Patch Management

December 16, 2011 by Thu Pham
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"Why is patch management so important? If your servers aren’t updated and managed properly, your data and applications are left vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves and other malicious attacks against your systems." [read more]

What You Need to Know About Duqu

December 16, 2011 by Bryan Halfpap
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"It has been billed as the next Stuxnet, the son of Stuxnet, or a Stuxnet clone. In reality, Duqu is actually more like a payload of Stuxnet rather than the entire attack campagin, because it is a backdoor package dropped via other means. The reason why Stuxnet was considered to be so advanced was in large part because of its varied numbers of unpatched exploits that it used to ensure successful infection." [read more]

Only 18% of Software Apps Pass Security Tests

December 12, 2011 by Alex Olesker
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"Over the past 18 months, almost 10,000 software applications from the government and private sector were submitted to Veracode’s online security testing platform for independent security auditing and 8 out of 10 failed to achieve an acceptable level of security on their first try." [read more]

Big Data Fights Crime: The FBI’s Next Generation Identification

December 10, 2011 by Alex Olesker
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"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in the Big Data business since 1999 when it launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the world’s largest biometric database on individuals. IAFIS contains over 55 million sets of fingerprints and is used by law enforcement agencies nationwide for criminal investigations and civil background checks." [read more]

Top 10 Software Glitches of 2011

December 6, 2011 by Joe McKendrick
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"Our friends at WebLayers just released their annual Top Ten list of the worst computer glitches to have wreaked havoc across the globe this past year. I would have picked the Amazon Web Services outage as number one, but it looks like RIM walks away with the honors this year." [read more]

How a HIPAA Breach Can Negatively Impact Your Business

December 5, 2011 by Thu Pham
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"According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2011 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security, data security breaches cost the U.S. healthcare industry an estimated $6.5 billion a year, up 10 percent from last year. About 29 percent of the providers reported that one consequence of data breaches was medical identity theft." [read more]