Category: IT Management
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The Main Source of Cyber Threat Intelligence
Which firm, company or solution can have the most comprehensive source of threat intelligence? The question should come to your mind when you are shopping for this security matter for any reason. Sources can have different type of data and then convert it to useful information via either active or passive mechanisms to gather intelligence,…
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Is Whitelisting a Good Security Practice?
Whitelisting has been for sure a relatively standard and sometimes as a hardening security measure but it depends how we implement and maintain it and where it is initially enforced. Whitelisting could be against you if setup at the wrong spot or with inadequate supportive elements. I highly recommend whitelisting behavior rather than whitelisting elements…
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Monitoring: The Forgotten Discipline
The Myth of “Proactive” Every company claims to be proactive. They buy dashboards, automate alerts, and call it visibility. But visibility without interpretation is just noise. And noise is the enemy of monitoring. These days, the market is full of tools that promise prediction. None deliver it. They only record symptoms faster. What You Actually…
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No Silver Bullet in Computer Security
There is no silver bullet in any aspect of information security. All the answers like EDR, MFA, SIEM… might get you in a better or worse security posture, it all depends to how you implement and manage but none of them are silver bullet in their area (malware protection, authentication, monitoring…). It is all about…
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Vendor Risk Assessment: Hassle or Blessing?!
A Security Questionnaire, RFI, VRA (Vendor Risk Assessment), VR Management…helps customers identify and evaluate the risks of using a vendor’s product or service. Performing such a review is sometimes mandatory based on the industry (e.g. healthcare). During this standard business process, customer collects written information about security capabilities of a supplier and you could barely…
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Tech Staff Justifies Incompetence!
Have you ever listened to your tech team trying to justify all the tasks left behind, delayed or procrastinated? Do you have an IT team brining excuses for every project there are facing and try to blame everything except the root cause? Then you are not alone! Here is a known list of IT staff…
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Simple Sign of Security Program Has Already Been Failed
The simple sign is your Trust and Confidence: Do you have faith in your security program? For a moment be honest and ask yourself: am I confident with my company security program? Do I have faith in our security team? Do they really know what they are doing? Does my information security officer worth pay…
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One Strategy to Win the Cyber-security Battle: Change the Focus!
Sales pitch force us to worry about things that are not so important; Change your mindset to win the battle! “Battle” would not be the right term if we didn’t have a market full of competition to sell cybersecurity products rather than focusing on the right and real way of defense. In other words, focusing…
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Tools vs. Techniques
Operations fail by focusing on tool rather than technique! In context of information technology, with all primary operations like Systems administration, Patching and updating, Backup and replication, Malware protection…and all related sub-tasks, focus on Tools is an enemy of the process! Defining, developing or choosing a technique in advance is crucial to an IT operation.…
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Good IT Exercises: Documentation!
Everybody’s talking about importance of physical exercise and routine workouts these days, and of course that’s the result of 21st century life-style which is forced through technology but how about some technology exercises and routine practices which can help reduce the pressure on tech staff workload and leads us to a healthier IT environment? Documentation…