Notice Bored

JUNE 5, 2022

The organisation cannot adopt a generic suite of information security controls simply on the basis that they have been recommended or suggested by someone - not even if they are noted in Annex A. Justification for including a control is its effect on modifying information security risk. Subclause 6.1.3

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

More at: [link] #cybersecurity #InfoSec #VulnerabilityManagement pic.twitter.com/hNwDHFaPtt — CISA Cyber (@CISACyber) March 10, 2023 “This issue allowed an attacker with access to the server administrator’s Plex account to upload a malicious file via the Camera Upload feature and have the media server execute it.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

For the first time in its 60-year history, the OECD offered policy guidelines for risk reduction through vulnerability management. For the first time in its history this past February, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) offered policy guidelines for digital risk reduction through vulnerability management.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Someone asked whether to add the company's Facebook page to their information asset register (implying that it would need to be risk-assessed and secured using the Information Security Management System processes), or whether the asset should be the Facebook account (ID and password, I guess)**.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The vulnerabilities have been reported to HP by the infosec researchers Nick Bloor, an attacker could chain the three issues to achieve SYSTEM privileges on targeted devices and potentially take over them. The issue does not impact customers who use Active Directory authenticated accounts. ” reads the HP’s advisory.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m starting a new series with this 2022 edition where I think about what Information Security could or should look like in the distant future—say in 2050. The ideas will cover multiple aspects of InfoSec, from organizational structure to technology. Accounting is repeatable. Distant Future. A Future Example.

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Notice Bored

MARCH 14, 2022

ISO 22301 is an excellent reference here, enabling organisations to identify, rationally evaluate and sensibly treat both high probability x low impact and low probability x high impact information risks (the orange zone on probability impact graphics), not just the obvious double-highs (the reds and flashing crimsons!).

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 8, 2022

Providing a blueprint, mapping-out and clarifying the organisational structure, governance arrangements and accountabilities for information risk and security relative to other parts of the business such as IT, physical security, Risk, legal/compliance, HR, operations, business continuity, knowledge management.;

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 31, 2022

He is the Chief Information Security Officer at Veterans United Home Loans in Columbia, Missouri. He has more than 25 years of experience in both public entities and private industry, having built several Information Security programs from the ground up. In this installment, we introduce you to Randy Raw.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

If or when more attacks are uncovered, end-user organizations will need to apply the lessons learned from SolarWinds and prepare to take swift and decisive action, infosec experts agreed in a series of interviews with SC Media. Department of Education. Hard reality check.

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NopSec

JANUARY 8, 2018

We’re living through the gold rush of information security. The awareness and importance of information (or cyber) security has never been higher. Most attacks are known, or predictable based on data that the infosec industry collects and analyses. But we still see incidents and breaches occur at an alarming rate.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yet it’s my experience that most people don’t fully appreciate the profound risks they face online and all too many still do not practice simple behaviors that can dramatically reduce their chances of being victimized by malicious parties. And once they do, they swiftly try to gain access to accounts on other popular services.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

But those aren’t the only laws or regulations that affect IT security teams. There are plenty of others to worry anyone with job titles that include terms like “compliance,” “privacy,” and “security,” from CSOs on down. See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools. PIPL Raises the Bar – And the Stakes.

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 5, 2022

Security Posture suggests a confusing mix of application and account security metrics. I'm really not sure what ' security posture ' even means in this context, and curious as to why those two aspects in particular have been selected as example metrics. including security-relevant aspects ( e.g. being a trusted partner).

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 18, 2020

Some time back I bumped into a handy management guide on information risk - a double-sided leaflet from the I nformation A ssurance A dvisory C ouncil. Regulation and Legislation - outlines directors' compliance responsibilities relating to information risk and security, privacy etc.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 22, 2021

After all, an ISO27k ISMS is, essentially, simply a structured, systematic approach for information risk management, isn't it? Types and significances of risks – different threats, vulnerabilities and impacts, different potential incidents of concern; Understandings of ‘information’, ‘risk’ and ‘management’ etc.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

This is to ensure that personnel is aware of their roles and responsibilities pertaining to the security of all network components. This helps facilitates better accountability for the security of the CDE. All business connectivity with the internet poses the greatest risk to safeguard with a firewall.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

“The attacker only needs to know the server running Exchange and the account from which they want to extract e-mail.” The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued the Emergency Directive 21-02 in response to the disclosure of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. .

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Carahsoft’s 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey , phishing attacks were the most common threat to healthcare systems, accounting for 45% of security incidents. Why is the Healthcare Industry at Risk? This is one of the reasons why the healthcare industry is at such a high risk for social engineering attacks.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

But I would add that it’s not just cybersecurity, but up-to-date cybersecurity – a security strategy that can truly prepare and defend your enterprise against the modern threat landscape. The bygone ways of approaching information security simply won’t cut it today. Fortify areas that are most at risk.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2023

Cybersecurity professionals have various views on last week's news from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when it surprised the InfoSec community and the C-suites of corporate America. For sanity, manage to a written information security policy.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Ultimately, he believes “this is good for businesses as, through the insurance process, they will gain better visibility into their cyber risks and measures they can deploy to keep digital operations secure and compliant to data privacy regulations.”. billion in premium.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 25, 2019

million employees today, according to the latest estimates from (ISC)², the world’s leading cybersecurity and IT security professional organisation. This gap is putting all organisations at greater risk of attack. Organisations across the globe are suffering a cybersecurity workforce “gap” of around 2.9

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Notice Bored

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

A member asked: ‘Should a control be discontinued because a reassessment showed a lower acceptable risk score?’ Risk score’ hints at yet another potential minefield - one I've discussed repeatedly here on NBlog. How are risks being ‘scored’, exactly? We are naturally biased towards risk reduction through controls.

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Notice Bored

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

indicates that management has much more latitude in this area provided they follow the mandatory information risk management processes from the main body, and again they may need to convince the certification auditors that they diligently followed the specified processes. Clause 6.1.3 Clause 6.1.3

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Notice Bored

MAY 13, 2022

Risk and opportunity management: whether it's avoiding bad stuff or chasing good outcomes, uncertaintly is the crux of this, either way. Identifying, evaluating and addressing the risks is the nub of the professional services security guideline. O rganisations usually have several professional services suppliers and/or clients.

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Notice Bored

JULY 25, 2022

Naturally, they take the opportunity to mention that information security is an integral part of their products. Combining points 1-3 can help clarify the objectives of the ISMS - not just the detailed information risk and security objectives but more generally the business objectives, the rationale for doing all this stuff.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 1, 2017

“Zero-day” is the all-powerful boogieman of the information security industry. We need to define and disambiguate this term before attempting to determine whether we’ve accounted for the associated threats when designing security programs. Avoid Zero-Day Confusion. Avoid the Ambiguity, Save the World.

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Notice Bored

JUNE 23, 2022

ISO/IEC 27003 offers a page of 'guidance on formulating an information security risk treatment plan (6.1.3 e))', which I won't quote in full but summarise and critique here: The RTP documents the outputs from '27001 clause 6.1.3 a) through c). Necessary control(s); Where both 'controls' and 'necessary' are decidedly ambiguous.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This forced security leaders and enterprise executives to assess their information security operations and overall cybersecurity posture to ensure their organizations were ready to face the challenges ahead. Mitigate Vulnerability Risk. Data breaches and cybersecurity threats were at an all-time high this past year.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

And what parallels might infosec learn from COVID-19? In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. Using older software within your own software always carries risk. Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

And what parallels might infosec learn from COVID-19? In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. Using older software within your own software always carries risk. Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014.

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Healthcare Hacking InfoSec Software 52

Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2021

The cardholder is a client of the issuing financial institution and may have an account directly linked to the payment card. They are a third-party system and not the bank where the merchant has an account. VISTA InfoSec has been instrumental in helping top multinational companies achieve compliance and secure their IT infrastructure.

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Banking InfoSec Accountability Information Security 64

Lenny Zeltser

APRIL 9, 2018

Is it better to perform product management of information security solutions at a large company or at a startup? The perspective below is based on my product management experiences in the field information security, though I suspect it’s applicable to product managers in other hi-tech environments.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks Nation-state actors (..)

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Particularly when we're talking about public figures in positions of influence, we need to see leadership around infosec, not acknowledgement that elected representatives are consciously exercising poor password hygiene. dept for not managing this risk adequately. needs to meet this need and be secure also.

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