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Episode 232: Log4j Won’t Go Away (And What To Do About It.)

The Security Ledger

If you’ve been paying attention to your infosec news feed this week, you’ve been inundated with stories and headlines about something called “log4j, a (previously) obscure library that is a common component of a number of Apache software frameworks. That’s out of a total population of 7.1 Supply Chain Risks: The New Normal.

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2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Pt. 1: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

McAfee

He recognized my passion for infosec (it wasn’t called cyber back then) and provided me with the support needed to make my ideas and projects a reality. Thanks to him I was able to co-found one of the first infosec consulting businesses in Spain in 2000, and I’m still very grateful for that opportunity. it’s on LinkedIn too).

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Weaving strategies with policies

Notice Bored

What about the technology risks, not least our ever-increasing dependence on the Internet? As well as infosec policies, what are your business policies for managing the information risk security function?

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‘I vowed I was going to teach people’: NPower’s trauma-informed training nurtures digital talent

SC Magazine

As an infosec leader, Vaughn witnessed first-hand the dearth of available IT talent that’s available to hire. Founded in 2000, the nonprofit aims to “launch pathways for prosperity and economic mobility, particularly by helping to launch digital careers,” said Vaughn. The average salary among graduates is $80,000.).

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Y2k + 20: risk, COVID and "the Internet issue"

Notice Bored

For a long time prior to the year 2000, a significant number of software programmers had taken the same shortcut we all did back in "the 90s". which leaves our organisations, management and society at large asking themselves "What have the infosec pros ever done for us? The sheer scale of the Internet problem is the real issue.

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Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

A staple in the cybersecurity industry since 2000, Fortinet is known for its line of firewalls, including the FortiWeb web application firewall. A web application firewall is a specialized firewall designed to filter and control HTTP traffic in internet traffic between web clients and application servers. Fortinet FortiWeb.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. Daniel, he keeps a low profile.

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