Archives: 'Business Risk Planning'

Ericka Chickowski on the DarkReading blog provides a preview of “8 hot hacking tools” that are expected to be “revealed and released” next month at the Black Hat USA meeting in Las Vegas. These are tools for “white hats,” the good guys, to have and understand in the continually plaguing effort to keep the Internet […]

Cyber security – we’ve been on this subject before, but it’s one that bears repeating and refining. Computer breaches are becoming all too common so Diane Griffin on the Security Directions E-Magazine offers “5 Ways to Strengthen Your Cyber Security”. It’s a post from last year, but one that remains applicable today. Ms. Griffin advises: […]

The public schools in Littleton, Colorado, are demonstrating how security principles can be applied to an entire school system, with the state of the electronic art monitored from a single control center. “Staff,” advises the Security Industry Association, “can watch video feeds displayed on a wall of 16 screens and view access control information for […]

SecurityInfoWatch takes us into the digital chaos produced by the “Wanna Cry” ransomeware attacks. The infection was spread via a massive email spam, exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows OS, which Microsoft released a security patch for in March. Computers and networks that did not install the patch to help protect their systems are at […]

On DarkReading, Joshua Goldfarb provides a meditation on rushing to judgement and/or mocking the makers of mistakes. “Do you think that if someone were to mock me,” Joshua asks, “it would make me feel better about the mistake I’ve made, or somehow encourage me to learn from it?” Just the opposite. “Mocking people causes them […]

Big businesses or small – both sizes are subject to cyber security attacks. There’s no safety in smugness for either size. Security Infowatch warns that “Many small businesses fall under the false impression that criminals will only target large or even medium-sized businesses given the higher potential pay out; however, nearly half of all cyber-attacks […]

If you have any doubts about the effectiveness of the security measures you’ve taken at your workplace – and you should have, actually – consider hiring or retaining penetration testers – or “pentesters” for short. That’s the advice of SecurityInfoWatch in a post, “Inside the Mind of Hackers”. This holds for both perimeter and digital […]

DarkReading provides a scary look at the security scene before the 9-11 attacks and today. “Former CIA Director George Tenet’s statement less than two months before 9-11 that ‘the system was blinking red’”, writes Paul Kurtz, “is eerily familiar to our current threat environment in cyberspace. We have a preponderance of reporting on adversaries but […]

New pieces of security gear continue to arrive on the scene – security robots. Briefs noted the arrival of security robots (along with drones and virtual reality) in a post last February, and they keep coming on. The Security Magazine blog has the International Federation of Robots (IFR) projecting that “the number/use of industrial robots […]

While this post is afield from perimeter security, it’s a great example of being prepared for adversity, a basic security tenet. Government Security News reports on an “emergency preparedness resilience workshop” by the City of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Intermedix on the subject of . . . smog. […]