Category: Security Management
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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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Coding Skills and Security Administration
Know how to code and take your computer security effectiveness to next level
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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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The Only Reason A System Has Not Been Hacked!
Real hackers do not randomly find a flaw in a system. There is a systematic approach to hack a system! Regardless of size and type of an online entity and its online presence, a giant company with ten thousand of employee, or a home user of the Net, the only reason a system (may) have…
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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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Why We Are Not Able To Secure
The Open House Problem Why are we not able to secure? Because we open everything…and then ask people to be careful. It is like opening all the doors of a house and telling everyone inside: be alert. We call this awareness. Awareness of what? Of a problem we created by design? “You don’t warn people…
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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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Naturally Secure Windows Machine
How to utilize native Windows security features to get beyond all the tools in the market?! Most of the times ‘extra tools’ are just for doing things in a different way, perhaps more convenient, but not necessary in a better way, or more effective, cheaper or faster way and Windows is not an exception. Speaking…
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Security Program: How To Thrive?
From struggling or hardly surviving, to a fully supervised and manageable security program… Most companies are struggling with running an smooth security program. No matter how much they are spending on that, the difference is really not that much. From zero budget to million dollars security budgets, they still do not have enough trust in…
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Complexity: The Hidden Monster behind Insecurity
No doubt that companies struggle with information security these days. Today they spend hundreds of thousand dollars, some millions, tomorrow they realize they have done nothing! Security folks do not have peaceful night sleep, because they know what they have done during the day could easy be compromised! Regardless of why we are spending money…