Infosec Awareness Training – Phish or no-Phish
In every employee meeting where I have an opportunity to speak about information security, I bring up the topic of phishing. Phishing is one of the biggest threats in information security today. Social engineering seems to be more prevalent, and harder to detect, than ever and we all have to be...
Microsoft releases the Microsoft Volume Licensing Reference Guide
Software licensing is one of the most complex activities that an IT person has to deal with, especially Microsoft licensing. Microsoft has released a Volume...
Book Review: CISSP Video Mentor by Shon Harris
Shon Harris is a well known author of information security training materials. She is the owner and president of Logical Security. I recently had the opportunity to go through her CISSP Video Mentor course presented by Pearson...
National Research Council Announces Cyberdeterrence Scholarship
This is a very interesting call for papers (CFP). The questions of interest section raises some significant security concerns. Maybe you watched some of the US national cybersecurity drill in February. If not, check out my previous blog posting
Google Apps Status Dashboard available
Google has an Apps Status Dashboard website where users of Google Apps such as Google Mail, Google Talk and even Postini services can see current service status. This replaces the previous dashboards or stoplight service reporting...
Dept of Homeland Security announces National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge
Maybe you heard about the cybersecurity drill ran last month by the Department of Homeland Security. If not, check out this CNN news story. Then watch the very interesting videos of the drill itself.
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Verizon releases security incident metrics framework – VerIS
Last month Verizon released a publicly available version of the Verizon...