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Category: Security Fundamentals

2019.08.02 ID: 358

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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2019.07.04 ID: 370

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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2019.03.15 ID: 271

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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2019.02.06 ID: 44

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 […]

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2017.11.08 ID: 656

Complexity Is the Enemy of Security

The Wrong Perception of sophistication Every generation of engineers falls for the same trap, believing that complexity equals strength. It doesn’t. Complexity is fragility disguised as innovation. It’s the art of building systems that no one can understand, troubleshoot, or defend. The beauty of the most effective securing techniques is in their simplicity, not in […]

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