In our last post in the CISO’s Guide to Advanced Attacks, you verified the alert, so it’s time to spring into action. This is what you get paid for – and to be candid your longevity in the CISO role directly correlates to your ability to contain the damage and recover from the attacks as quickly and efficiently as possible. But no pressure, right? So let’s work through the steps involved in breaking the kill chain, disrupting the attackers, taking counter measures, and/or getting law…
I was weirdly interested in Paul Miller’s year off the Internet. Paul is a writer for The Verge, and they actually paid him to keep writing (offline) through the year instead of kicking him to the curb like most publications would have.
Good tip here in a post from the Chief Monkey about a new open source log visualization tool called Logstalgia. It basically shows web access logs visualized as a pong game. So all of you folks in my age bracket will really appreciate it. Here is the description from the project page:
From Macworld: iOS app contains potential malware:
The app Simply Find It, a $2 game from Simply Game, seems harmless enough. But if you run Bitdefender Virus Scanner–a free app in the Mac App Store–it will warn you about the presence of a Trojan horse within the app. A reader tipped Macworld off to the presence of the malware, and we confirmed it.
From the Economist:
TRADITIONALLY, business associates would get to know each other over a round of golf. But road cycling is fast catching up as the preferred way of networking for the modern professional. A growing number of corporate-sponsored charity bike rides and city cycle clubs are providing an ideal opportunity to talk shop with like-minded colleagues and clients while discussing different bike frames and tricky headwinds. Many believe cycling is better than golf for building lasting…
The first thing to consider is how you want deploy external key management. There are four options:
I recently took the Boy to see “42,” which I highly recommend for everyone. It’s truly a great (though presumably dramatized) story about Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey as they tore down the color line in major league baseball. My stepfather knew Jackie Robinson pretty well and always says great things about him. It seems the movie downplayed the abuse he took, alone, as he worked to overcome stereotypes, bigotry, and intolerance to move toward the ideal of the US founding fathers that “all…
Why do we use big data for security analytics? Aside from big data hype in the press, what motivates customers to look for new solutions? On the other side of the coin, why are vendors altering their products to use – or at least integrate with – big data? In our discussions with customers they cite performance and scalability, particularly for security event analysis. In fact this research project was originally outlined as a broad examination of the potential for big data for security…
As we mentioned in our last post, there are three options for encrypting entire storage volumes:
Instance-managed
Externally-managed
Proxy
We will start with the first two today, then cover proxy encryption and some deeper details on cloud key managers (including SaaS options) next.
This is too good not to share, albeit only tangentially related to our usual SMB and enterprise focus:
A software development company posted a cracked version of their new game to pirate sites, but with a twist: