Blog Posts Tagged with "Human Factor"
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
March 20, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Liars and Outliers is an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking book. In this election year where the candidates attempt to make sweeping simplistic promises to fix complex problems, Schneier simply answers that in our complex society, there are no simple answers...
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Enterprise Security's Achilles Heel
March 16, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Have you ever wondered why enterprise security people are so downtrodden? Baffled by the impossible arrogance of penetration testers when they laugh at corporate security postures? The bottom line: people have always been and will always be the Achilles heel...
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On Hacking Humans at the RSA Conference
March 06, 2012 Added by:
RSA was a veritable cornucopia of data collection. There were no firewalls, human IDS/IPS or content filtering at this show. People openly discussed strategic plans, engineering specs and tactical activities whether over morning coffee or late night shots of Patron...
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Why Data Leaks
February 13, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The main reason is people. People handle electronic data and make mistakes or do not follow policies. People are increasing conscious that information has value – all information has some value to someone and that someone may be willing to pay...
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Security Beyond the Desktop
January 19, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
The human link: There is an ever-widening disparity between the sophistication of networks and the people who use them. When direct attacks on an organization’s defenses fail, cybercriminals often use social engineering toolkits to exploit unsuspecting employees...
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On Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests
January 10, 2012 Added by:Drayton Graham
Simply put, a Vulnerability Assessment is a piece of code that will identify and report on known vulnerabilities, but a scanner will likely run into false positives. A Penetration Test goes a step further in that a human exploits vulnerabilities, but false positives do not exist...
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The Human Factor
December 24, 2011 Added by:Jim Palazzolo
When we truly understand that every server we secure, policy enforced, card swipe device locked down, banking website code scrubbed, and public facing connection port blockaded has a human being at the end we will then fully grasp the concept of "defense-in-depth"...
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