The Need for Social Engineerig in InfoSec
Image via Wikipedia When I took my undergraduate Engineering degree the attitude of my professors was that if we had chose engineering as our career then a few things were going on. First, technology...
View ArticleWhy don’t companies apply more risk analysis – Part 2
And while on that subject ... "Consult Human Resources when making disaster recovery plans" Every DR plan I've seen has failed to take into account human factors. The most basic of which is that if...
View ArticleWhen organizations put a lot of eggs in one basket – desktop side
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/when-organizations-put-a-lot-of-eggs-in-one-basket-desktop-side-of-the-story/2103?tag=nl.e539 This is a chicken-little story. We've been putting many computer...
View ArticleTV kills!
I keep telling everybody that TV is injurious to your (mental) health, but does anyone listen? Why should they? They didn't when Gerry Mander presented his Four Arguments for the Elimination of...
View ArticleWhy Info Sec Positions Go Unfilled
http://www.infosecleaders.com/2012/05/career-advice-tuesday-why-info-sec-position-go-unfilled/ There are many holes in this, but I think they miss some important points. First is setting IT HR to look...
View Article“Paid to be paranoid”
Read the first four paragraphs of this: http://hollylisle.com/shoes-and-handbags/ Forget the rest, forget that its about 'creative writing', just answer that question. Bruce Schneier among other,...
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