Items Tagged with "Information Security"
Security Awareness Education Begins with the Youth
August 29, 2011 Added by:Steven Fox, CISSP, QSA
DefCon Kids follows the trend towards developing cybersecurity skills in youth, so that these young professionals will one day be prepared to tackle the increasingly advanced cyber attacks that constantly threaten today’s enterprises...
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Federal OMB Directs Agencies to Expand CIO Powers
August 29, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
This expansion of the role of the CIO at the federal level is seen as essential by outgoing Federal CIO Kundra in order to drive desired cost savings and ROI through specific programs like the data center consolidation program as well as the migration of applications to the cloud...
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Software Security Assurance - Getting the Formula Right
August 27, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
Security professionals need to ensure that we're doing what's right for the developers who will be building more secure software, rather than us security professionals who are adept at bolting on security bits. That's the big revelation here, but of course, only if you believe me...
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The Global CyberLympics Ethical Hacking Challenge
August 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The Global CyberLympics - the world’s first international team ethical hacking championships - will be held in September across six continents. It is endorsed by the U.N.’s cybersecurity executing arm – IMPACT - and the EC-Council is sponsoring over $400,000 worth of prizes...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Will Bechtel - Product Manager - Qualys
August 24, 2011
The demands on companies and government to protect networks from exploits that threaten the security of proprietary information have skyrocketed. The dependence on IT systems increased for nearly every business, and so have the financial motivations of criminals...
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Black Hat USA 2011 Presenters - A Live Webcast
August 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The organizers of the Black Hat USA 2011 conference which took place earlier this month are inviting those who attended and those who missed the event to join them for a live webcast featuring some of the conference's speakers. The free webcast airs on Thursday, Aug 25, 2011...
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Caveman to Spaceman - Evolutionary Stages of Infosec
August 24, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
We've given up on the notion of securing things and are starting to focus on the idea that security is a journey, and while we're keeping things safe to a pre-defined level of risk tolerance, we need to minimize the damage when the bad people find their ways in and start to kick down doors...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Rainer Enders - CTO - NCP Engineering
August 23, 2011
Rainer Enders is the CTO at NCP Engineering, and is interested in solving security related issues on all levels of data transfer and communication. NCP engineering delivers software that allows enterprises to rethink their secure remote access and overcome the network complexities...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Alex Quilter - Product Manager - Qualys
August 22, 2011
Qualys is the only security company that delivers these solutions through a single Software-as-a-Service platform: QualysGuard'. All of Qualys' on demand solutions can be deployed within hours anywhere around the globe, providing customers an immediate view of their security and compliance posture...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Tom Eston - Secure State Consultant
August 21, 2011
Tom Eston is a senior security consultant with Secure State, who's focus is in research on the security of social media and privacy. Tom wrote the popular "Facebook Privacy & Security Guide" which is used for awareness training at several universities and government organizations...
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Security in the Board Room: Is Anonymous Our Pink Elephant?
August 21, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
Many of you have been trying to make Information Security a board-level priority since you took your positions, but it's been an uphill battle the whole way - then came the hacking calamity seemingly breaking into everything, stealing and pillaging like an invading horde. You saw your chance...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Robb Reck - Infosec Expert
August 18, 2011
Robb is a frequent contributor to Infosec Island, and is an experienced Information Security manager in the finance sector. Robb has over 13 years in IT security with proven experience creating and implementing security policy in small and large organizations...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Alexander Polyakov - CTO - ERPScan
August 18, 2011
Alexander Polyakov is the CTO at ERPScan, the OWASP-EAS manager for the OWASP-EAS, and a well-known security expert on enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle, and who published a significant number of the vulnerabilities found in the applications of these vendors...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Nabil Ouchn - CTO at NETpeas
August 17, 2011
Nabil Ouchn is the co-founder and CTO at NETpeas and the creator of Security Tools Watch. Nabil has over 10 years of experience in IT security assessment, vulnerability management and IS risk analysis driving security pentests and ethical hacking audits...
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Black Hat’s Place in Enterprise Information Security
August 17, 2011 Added by:Robb Reck
Throughout the Black Hat briefings, I didn’t once hear the words “defense in depth” or “return on investment.” What I got instead is examples of how the bad guys are going to break into specific systems. Black Hat doesn’t have a management track, the focus is on hands-on attacks and of systems...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Mark Boltz - Solutions Architect - Stonesoft
August 17, 2011
Mark Boltz is the senior solutions architect at Stonesoft, a CISSP and an innovator in business continuity and network security solutions. Mark has more than twenty years experience in information systems and network administration, with more than twelve years specialization in information security...