Top 10 Common Misconceptions About Application Whitelisting
Application Whitelisting is a technology that has been in use in the security world for quite a long time. For those who may not already be familiar with AWL,...
Management, compliance & auditing
Regulators Protect Their Data: Who’s Protecting Yours?
By Chris Clymer, SecureState Advisory Manager and Kerstyn Clover, SecureState Consultant
If there’s one constant for security practitioners across virtually...
OSSEC
Introduction
In this article we'll present the open source host-based intrusion detection system, which is needed if we would like to detect host-based attacks...
Enterprise Security Management
An enterprise invests considerable amount of time in its day to day scanning and managing patched for the infrastructure. But, an enterprise psychological analysis...
Conditional Complexity of Risk Models
Introduction
"Conditional complexity" (also called cyclomatic complexity) is a term used to measure the complexity of software. The term refers to the number...
U.S. Cyber Policy – Course and Legal Aspects
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Introduction
Cyber policy is an important issue that many would qualify as pending. Even leading...
Software Patent Law: EU, New Zealand, and the US compared
1. Introduction
A patent is defined as an exclusive right or rights provided by a government to an inventor for a certain period of time in exchange for the...
Your Guide to the HP Cyber Risk Report
By: Geoffrey Vaughana a Security Consultant at Security Compass
This year at the RSA Conference HP officially released its annual Cyber Risk Report. This...
Risk Tolerance: Good to have – Hard to do
I've shared some of my experiences in working as a data security officer for the British government. In this piece, I want to highlight my experiences in getting...
BYOD – A Prequel
History, wrote Norman Cousins, is a vast early warning system. When faced with a security difficulty, it can help us to reach back and to remember how impossible...