SYS.DATE: 2019.05.22
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Coding Skills and Security Administration
Know how to code and take your computer security effectiveness to next level
SYS.DATE: 2019.05.10
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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 […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.05.01
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ISMS is Not equal to Real Security!
Is having an information security management system equal to actual security? Nop! Having an information security management system is not an indication of quality of security controls. Management systems are easier way of administration in a standard and systematic way, but they do not necessarily an indication of security control effectiveness. As an example, ISO […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.04.19
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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 […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.04.05
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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 […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.03.27
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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 […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.03.20
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Does Technology Solve Our Problems?
Real issues are not going to be solved by any of those known popular internet applications! Currently it does not but technology could solve our problems if two factors considered: Definition of ‘Problem’ Justifying practical ‘Application’ The former seems so obvious but that is actually the root cause of why technology is not able to solve […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.03.15
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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 […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.03.12
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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. […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.03.05
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5 Signs Your Code is Insecure
If you believe a final penetration test is the gatekeeper of your security, you are already behind. Security is not an event that happens at the end of a sprint; it is an architectural decision made at the first line of code. If your process lacks a framework before the test, your “secure” code is […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.03.03
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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 […]
SYS.DATE: 2019.02.25
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How Net Anonymity Works?
In practice, most of internet anonymous services are only exposing your net identity in a different manner, even more obvious and only in a noisier way! Long story short, if your are concerned about so-called ‘Privacy‘, do Not rely on popular techniques and tools of net anonymity! When you connect to a (Anonymous) VPN service […]