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SubscribeNot ready to give up on single-sign on
March 28, 2012
You could say single sign-on has become a key to my daily survival. I need so many passwords to get through the day that I've pinned a lot of my hopes on it. Naturally, I was none too pleased to see that researchers have found big cracks in such single-sign on vehicles as OpenID and the...
Stuck in CAPTCHA Hell: When Security Disables
March 03, 2012
A CAPTCHA popped up questioning my credentials. “Darn, I hate when this happens,” I thought. “No worries, I’ve been through this security checkpoint before.” I typed in the two different words with the fuzzy characters. “Is there a space between these or not?” Nope – got it...
Stopping The Insider Threat: The Case for SIEM in Government IT (Part 3 - Wrap-up)
December 29, 2011
We are discussing technology’s role in reducing the insider threats using a SIEM solution. In the previous installments of this blog series we have established the need for a SIEM solution and determined roles needed to implement this solution. Now we will discuss the technology required to make...
Stopping The Insider Threat: The Case for SIEM in Government IT (Part 2)
December 09, 2011
This article is about roles and they are as important in government IT as they are in the NBA. The roles and responsibilities required for successful SIEM implementation and the importance of establishing clearly defined roles cannot be over-emphasized. Roles that comprise every successful sports...
Security Metrics and the Balanced Scorecard
October 19, 2011
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Metrics, the bane and blessing of corporate citizens, emerge from this truism. Metrics allow managers to determine the efficacy of process changes and technology implementation. However, poor metrics sometimes impose an atmosphere of...
The Dark Side of Collaboration
October 16, 2011
Collaboration can be toxic to an Information Security program. Assaulted by conflicting management agendas and priorities, the consensus needed for success sometimes suffers an early death. However, many organizations perpetuate the mantra that collaboration is always a good idea.
Foxnews.com - Drones, Malware and a Continued Lack of Infosec - Rinse and Repeat
October 12, 2011
Treadstone 71 tapped for Foxnews.com interview on drone malware and Japanese hacks (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)http://video.foxnews.com/v/1212998285001/how-do-we-police-hackers/
Hey, what’s for supper? We are having a risk-based pot roast tonight! Roll the dice.
October 01, 2011
Risk is choosing what part of your house you ‘bet’ will fail based upon chance. Will it happen when you sleep at night? Will it occur while you are away? Will it happen during the day when the baby is sleeping or at dinner time when your family is there for Thanksgiving? And you say you don't...
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