Information security policies – Whoo hoo! Pretty exciting stuff! But seriously, if we didn’t have policies, where would we be? Civilization as we know it would cease to exist! We all have policies that we adhere to – personally, professionally, morally.
Why Penetration Testing is Essential. Servers, applications, remote users and other services, once connected to your network, pose a risk to your organization. Hackers and malicious users, both internally and externally, may attempt to exploit security weaknesses to gain access to sensitive information assets.
You have an incident – may be a breach in progress, may be a breach that happened a while ago but is just noticed – what is your incident response? What do you do? Do you have a plan? Have you tested your plan recently? Is everyone trained in their responder role?
Is everyone familiar with social engineering testing? It’s a test of the natural tendency of a person to trust another person’s word, rather than exploiting actual computer security holes.
I was checking out Dark Reading, a fabulous site for information security news, and today’s article by Ericka Chickowski, titled “QR Code Malware Picks Up Steam” caught my attention.
Pretty much everyone is aware of PCI these days. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is one of the most detailed information security standards out there and in most cases has elevated the level of security within organizations.
A cyber security risk assessment goes beyond running a vulnerability scan and creating a prepackaged report. A risk assessment is a holistic examination of your security infrastructure, technology, people, and processes to develop a list of organizational risks based on potential business impacts. Whoa! Let’s examine that last sentence.
Let’s talk about HIPAA Gap Assessments. First of all, what is it? HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA (not HIPPA) requires organizations that handle electronic protected health information (another abbreviation for you: ePHI) to ensure that this information remains secure.
Dark Reading had another great article recently on the “7 Coolest Hacks of 2011”. This was by Kelly Jackson Higgins.
It’s that time of year again! Yay!