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There’s an expression in geekdom called “yak shaving” that refers to doing busywork that appears important but is actually useless. The essence is that yak shaving is easier to do than dealing with the actual problem at hand (which is often complex and hard).1 Too Much Security Awareness Training There’s only so much security training…
Read MoreIn Part I of this blog series, we introduced information modeling as a method to reduce compliance gaps. In this blog, we create a master model of protection based on the business model of a fictitious company called Eclipse Cloud Services (ECS). The master protection model forms the basis of contextualizing access to the infrastructure,…
Read MoreAccording to a 2015 study by Georgia Tech Information Security Center, 40 percent of CISOs reported to the CIO or CTO rather than directly to upper leadership.1 A forthcoming F5 Ponemon CISO research report will show that the trend is shifting away from CISOs reporting into the IT organization. From a legacy point of view,…
Read MoreF5 Labs recently featured a CISO-to-CISO blog post by an experienced auditor, Kyle Robinson, discussing how most organizations fail audits. I’ve been through quite a few audits myself, including a number by the author of that blog. Here are six ways to avoid the common audit failures he spelled out. Get Prioritization from the Top Until…
Read MoreIn this blog series, I explore the challenges of the information security practitioner, discussing how technical evolution simultaneously contributes new issues but presents new techniques for solving these issues. I begin with an academic question: Can humans create a system so large that the problems surrounding it are not solvable at human scale? There are…
Read MoreIt seems earthshaking vulnerabilities are released weekly that leave vendors and system administrators scrambling to remediate. So, where are all these vulnerabilities coming from? A simple search on the National Vulnerability Database shows over 3,300 new vulnerabilities released in just the past 3 months.1 Granted that many of these vulnerabilities are esoteric and limited to…
Read MoreInternal and external threat landscapes are made up of the same system components. Differentials are based on implementation and technology choices. Hosting Resources The way a solution is deployed, the type of cloud service, and the tenant model make up an organization’s hosting resources and provide the basis for the threat landscape. Why? This…
Read MoreAccording to Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report,1 “Web applications remain the proverbial punching bag of the Internet.”2 Things haven’t improved much since then. What is it about web applications that makes them so precarious? There are three primary answers. First, since most web applications are configured or coded specifically for the organizations they serve,…
Read MoreThere’s a lot of hype surrounding cryptocurrencies, but what’s good for currency traders may not be great for security-minded professionals. Source link lol
Read MoreLast week, our esteemed colleague David Holmes answered the board’s question “Are we doing anything with bitcoin?” by slamming the door on a technological trend that is not only underway but is rapidly expanding. (Heck, bitcoin itself is “old news” now.) Still, it should be on every CISO’s brain. Even if CISOs don’t need to talk to…
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