Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Security+: Risks Related to Third Parties

Introduction The main purpose of this article is to help you to learn more information on security aspects of data and system integration of third parties, which is a small but significant part of...

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Everything You Need to Know About Grid Cyber Security Risks

As we wrap up National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), our final theme, “Protecting Critical Infrastructure From Cyber Threats,” considers the state of cyber security for essential systems and critical ...

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Security+: Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Scanning

Introduction COMPTIA’s Security+ is one of the best certifications for professionals who want to demonstrate their information security knowledge and skills and start building a solid career in this...

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Joy of Tech®, ‘The New Tabloid!’

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Domain Controller as a Service

The IT world is moving to cloud hosted (as a service) solutions. Even categories and solutions that IT organizations have used on-prem for decades are shifting to be delivered as...

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Security+: Discovering Security Threats and Vulnerabilities

Introduction One of the best strategies to avoiding security incidents is taking a systematic, disciplined, pragmatic approach to discovering and treating Threats and Vulnerabilities. With a mature...

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Security+: Application Attacks

Introduction Gone are the days when hackers would target operating systems in their bids to find their way into a system; now most of the attacks are made on applications running on a victim system....

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Security+: Wireless Attacks

Introduction Being able to communicate without wires was a real paradigm shift in the field of information technology. While wireless technology makes it easier to set up networks, it also creates...

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Phishing Attacks in the Agriculture Industry

Introduction Larger businesses may be able to shrug off cyber attacks such as Phishing, but small farms are usually unable to absorb the financial loss; as such, a cyber attack could very well mean...

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TPM 2.0: A Short History and How to Use

TCG members continue working to create devices and applications to use the TPM 2.0, which offers many benefits for security. The 2.0 approach gives developers and designers many options to use key attributes and to apply them for protecting keys and certificates, for authentication, for attestation and for ensuring device integrity and health. All of … Continue reading "TPM 2.0: A Short History and How to Use"

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Attack on Old ANSI Random Number Generator

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a paper that pointed to a potential flaw in the ANSI X9.17 RNG standard. Now, new research has found that the flaw exists in some implementations of the RNG standard.

Here's the research paper, the website -- complete with cute logo -- for the attack, and Matthew Green's excellent blog post on the research.



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London Heathrow Airport’s security laid bare by one lost USB stick

If you tried to invent a risky way to transport data it’s hard to imagine you'd better the USB stick for calamitous efficiency

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Best Practices for Implementing an IT/Cybersecurity Policy

An essential part of a company’s cybersecurity program is the creation and implementation of a workplace security policy, a document that outlines all plans in place to protect physical and...

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Google Fixes Issue Tracker Flaw that Exposed Open Vulnerability Reports

Google has patched a flaw affecting its Issue Tracker tool that enabled an attacker to expose reports for open vulnerabilities found in its products. Security researcher Alex Birsan came across the vulnerability while attempting to break the Issue Tracker. Internally known as the Buganizer System, Google uses this utility to track bugs and feature requests […]… Read More

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Troll gets 5 years for framing brother-in-law as terrorist and paedophile

The 26-year-old man set up fake Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts to publish praise for terror attacks and Islamic State

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Top 10 Nastiest Ransomware Attacks of 2017

We’re revealing the top 10 nastiest ransomware attacks from the past year. NotPetya came in on our list as the most destructive ransomware attack of 2017, followed closely by WannaCry and Locky in...read more

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Securing our Critical Infrastructure – What You Need to Know

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EAS-SEC. Oracle PeopleSoft Security Configuration. Part 8: Access control and SoD conflicts

PeopleSoft has multiple functional opportunities, which are implemented through programs, transactions, and reports. An access to these objects should be strictly regulated by defining user profiles, roles and permission lists as the access to critical actions (e.g. access to modify data or to read any tables) enables users to attack PeopleSoft systems in order to […]

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Dancho Danchev – I’m Back!

Dear blog readers, it's been a while since I last posted a quality update. I wanted to let everyone know that despite the law enforcement issues that I've encountered I'm still continuing my work in the area of cybercrime research security blogging and threat intelligence gathering currently seeking a permanent relocation position in the area of cybercrime research security blogging and threat

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Supreme Court to Decide Major Internet Privacy and Jurisdiction Case

We love the cloud. We store our documents there. Our e-mails travel through cloud or other third-party providers. Now the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether the physical location of both the communications or documents themselves, or the location or citizenship of the people who are communicating, is relevant in deciding whether the..

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Women in Information Security: Glenda Snodgrass

Last time, I had the opportunity to speak with Carrie Roberts. She’s a red team engineer at Walmart with lots of penetration testing experience. This time, I had the pleasure of speaking with Glenda Snodgrass. She’s a founder and the president of The Net Effect, a cybersecurity services company that’s based in Alabama. They must […]… Read More

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Monday, October 30, 2017

Security+: Social Engineering Attacks

Introduction Social engineering focuses on the weakness of the human factor. As long as an institution has personnel, there is a risk of being penetrated via social engineering. Researching...

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Security+: Common Types of Cyberattacks

As we know from studying history, no two battles are exactly the same. Not only do they pursue different goals, but they are also typically defined by a whole set of unique characteristics and...

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Security+: Types of Malware

Introduction In the cyber world today, malware/spyware/adware, worms, trojan horses, etc. have become commonplace in the forms of attack vectors. These kinds of threats have been around for a long...

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Common Mobile Forensics Tools and Techniques

Data acquisition is the process of gathering information from mobile devices and their associated media. This process reduces the chances of data loss due to damage or battery depletion during...

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XKCD, Immune System

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Google IDaaS vs. Okta

Google’s been making some moves in the identity and access management space. Recently with their acquisition of Bitium, IT admins are wondering what their intentions are in the IAM space....

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Computer Forensics: Mobile Device Hardware and Operating System Forensics

Mobile device and cell phone forensics is a field of Digital Forensics that is growing by leaps and bounds. Mobile phone data can be used as evidence in court, as occurred during the recent murder...

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Google Vulnerability Gives Outsiders Access to Internal Bug Tracker

Security researcher finds bug that allowed external users to see internal vulnerabilities.

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Security Awareness – The Payment Process and Securing the Weakest Link

Retail organizations have been a target of cyber criminals for a long time, as they can seize valuable personal information of employees and customers, including their credit card and banking...

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Know your threats: the nine scariest malware monsters

It’s been a particularly ghoulish year in cybersecurity, from Russian hacks to ransomware outbreaks. The bad boogey man in the black hoodie has been pulling one over the collective public. It’s dark and creepy, but users refuse to stop peeking behind the door. It’s enough to make even the most grizzled IT admin run for...

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Google Login Security for High-Risk Users

Google has a new login service for high-risk users. it's good, but unforgiving.

Logging in from a desktop will require a special USB key, while accessing your data from a mobile device will similarly require a Bluetooth dongle. All non-Google services and apps will be exiled from reaching into your Gmail or Google Drive. Google's malware scanners will use a more intensive process to quarantine and analyze incoming documents. And if you forget your password, or lose your hardware login keys, you'll have to jump through more hoops than ever to regain access, the better to foil any intruders who would abuse that process to circumvent all of Google's other safeguards.

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Britain’s Largest Airport Launches Investigation after USB Found on Street

Britain’s largest and busiest airport has launched an investigation to determine how someone found a USB containing 2.5GB of its data on the street. News of the incident involving Heathrow London Airport first came to light when an unemployed man contacted The Sunday Mirror. He told the tabloid he was on his way to a […]… Read More

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Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats

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In observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Bitdefender delivers a series of articles on hot topics such as best practices in online safety and protecting your company’s assets and integrity. We also provide prerequisites to consider before seeking a career in cybersecurity. We encourage you to bookmark this blog or connect with Bitdefender on LinkedIn or Twitter to receive follow-on articles (filled with security tips) as they are published.

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Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week

From DDE email attacks and Bad Rabbits to the iPhone privacy loophole that's been staring us in the face, and more!

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Join us for a week in Vegas @ AWS re:Invent 2017

Join us for a week in Vegas @ AWS re:Invent 2017

The largest gathering of the global cloud community returns to Las Vegas for the 6th Annual AWS re:Invent Nov 27 – Dec 1. Join Bitdefender alongside the global cloud computing community for an action-packed event featuring keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, over 750 technical sessions, our energy hub -the partner expo, after hours events and more.

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Partner Spotlight: Q&A with Entrust Datacard

Inspired by National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), I kicked off our partner spotlight series earlier this month with one of...

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Security Sense: How Do You Do Knowledge Based Authentication When All Knowledge is Public?

How do you authenticate people based on data attributes they know when that very information is continually popping up in data breaches? It's a hard problem with no easy answers.

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Kaspersky Says Its Hand Was in the Cookie Jar, But …

Kaspersky Lab has been bombarded with an unending stream of claims that its Russian roots equate to being part of the Russian national team when it comes to national security interests. We previously discussed the rationale behind the ban of Kaspersky Lab security products in any U.S. government device, and how the company is believed..

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70 Percent of Contact Centers Require Customers to Read Sensitive Data Aloud, Increasing Security Risks

Global survey of contact center agents shows use of outdated practices for customer interaction, data collection...

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9 Security Horror Stories that Will Forever Haunt Our Nightmares

As most of you know, Halloween is upon us! It isn’t just a time for Steven King movies and trick-or-treating, but it’s also a time to reflect back on some of our own horror stories in IT. To help celebrate Halloween, we have asked some folks from the security industry to share their scary security […]… Read More

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ExpertOps: More Security with Less Time

When you work for the office of your organization’s chief information security officer (CISO), time is not your friend. In 2015, the average time from compromise to discovery of a security incident was 146 days. That figure dropped to 99 days in 2016. Even so, the pressure is still on for organizations to do more […]… Read More

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Sunday, October 29, 2017

Asleep Though We Stand In The Midst Of A War

What do we do when we discover a storm brewing in the Atlantic that becomes a tropical depression that is heading toward the East Coast? We prepare. Cybersecurity experts have been tracking just such a storm that has been brewing in cyberspace for the past several weeks and they expect it to hit a million […]

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Government Is Not Helping

First, this has nothing to do with whether you like Trump or Obama and whether one of them is a better or worse President. This isn’t about partisan politics; it’s about Cybersecurity preparedness and the lack of any serious programs addressing global threat in our nation’s capital. Back in August, eight members of the twenty-eight […]

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Predictions!

As we have now entered the final quarter here in 2017, I thought that I would begin to look at predictions for the upcoming year and beyond. CyberSecurity Ventures boldly tells us that we have another banner year in store: First news flash: Cybercrime will cost the world $6-trillion annually by 2021, up from about […]

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DerbyCon 2017, Michael Robinson & Joseph Oney’s ‘Become The Puppet Master – The Battle Of Cognition Between Man And Machine’

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Incremental "Gains" Are Just Slower Losses

Anton Chuvakin and I were having a fun debate a couple weeks ago about whether incremental improvements are worthwhile in infosec, or if it's really necessary to "jump to the next curve" (phrase origin: Guy Kawasaki's "Art of Innovation," watch...

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Future of Web App SSO

Web application single sign-on (SSO) has been an extremely popular category in the identity and access management space. But, as the identity management space changes and evolves, the question is...

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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Risky online dating apps putting your privacy in danger

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If you weren't nervous enough about the prospect of meeting a complete stranger after connecting on an online dating app, there's something else to worry about.

Just how carefully is your app keeping your personal information and location out of other people's sight?

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Does Benchmarking Really Show How Well Your Security Program Measures Up to Best Practices?

Q: Our new senior management team is requesting a report on how we measure up against security best practices, but we’re struggling to find formal or accurate benchmarks, and the data we do find isn’t often comparable with our organization....

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DerbyCon 2017, Michael Gough’s ‘EDR ETDR Next Gen AV As All The Rage So Why Am I Enraged’

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Secure WiFi Response to KRACK

The Key Reinstallation Attack (KRACK) on WiFi has been in the headlines recently. For those that haven’t heard, KRACK targets the WPA2 protocol – the protocol internet connected devices leverage...

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Friday, October 27, 2017

Daniel Stori’s ‘Windows Update’

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Security+: Network Security Devices and Technologies

Are you preparing to take the CompTIA Security+ exam and earn your certification? This entry-level credential is an excellent way to start working up to a rewarding career in the information security...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Steel Mesh Giant Squid Used as Artificial Reef

Researchers in the British Virgin Islands have sunk a giant squid made out of steel mesh to serve as an artificial reef. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....

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Q&A: Essential Tips for Solving the Worker Shortage and Starting a Career in Cyber Security

The week four theme of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is “The Internet Wants You: Consider a Career in Cybersecurity.” We asked our Vice President of Human Resources, Leah ...

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10 Tips for CCNA Certification Exam Success

Getting ready to take the CCNA/CCENT/CCDA/CCNA Security certification exam? We asked InfoSec Institute professors and industry experts to send us their certification exam insights. Here are their top...

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Virtual Identity Management

The modern identity management category kicked off with the advent of the LDAP protocol. Over the last 20+ years, the identity and access management space has certainly seen dynamic innovation...

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What Are the Biggest Security Threats to State and Local Governments?

Cybercrime is on the increase more than ever before and cybercriminals are becoming more notorious each day. It seems that the local and state governments have indeed become the main targets for...

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IoT Reaper Botnet Is Much Smaller Than Initially Believed

Security researchers warned last week that attackers are building a massive botnet of more than a million routers and wireless cameras. However, additional research has revealed that the number of devices actually enslaved by the botnet is only around 20,000, for now. “Over a million organizations have already been affected worldwide, including [in] the U.S.,..

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Notable Computer Forensics Cases

Cases involving Computer Forensics that made the News Michelle Theer (2000): On December 17th, 2000, John Diamond shot and killed Air Force Captain Marty Theer. The case took a turn as there were no...

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Guest Wi-Fi 101

Guest Wi-Fi 101

No matter who they are, people today expect Wi-Fi access when they’re guests of your office. Setting up your Wi-Fi the wrong way can create a tedious experience for them and even expose your confidential information. So what’s the right way to do it?

Never give guests access to your primary Wi-Fi

While giving guests password to your company’s main Wi-Fi might be the easiest way to get them connected, you should avoid this at all costs.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Steel Mesh Giant Squid Used as Artificial Reef

Researchers in the British Virgin Islands have sunk a giant squid made out of steel mesh to serve as an artificial reef.

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FBI Increases Its Anti-Encryption Rhetoric

Earlier this month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech warning that a world with encryption is a world without law -- or something like that. The EFF's Kurt Opsahl takes it apart pretty thoroughly.

Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said much the same thing.

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SaaS Identity Management

IT solutions have been moving to the cloud and as-a-Service models rapidly as of late. There are Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. There are Platform-as-a-Service...

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Honolulu gets tough on people texting while crossing

Looking at your mobile device while crossing is going to cost you

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Bad Rabbit, a new ransomware campaign rapidly spreads worldwide

October 24, Bad Rabbit is spreading in the wild On October 2017, a new massive ransomware campaign rapidly spread across Europe, the malware dubbed Bad Rabbit rapidly infected systems of more than...

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WannaCry Affected 34% of NHS Trusts in England, Investigation Finds

An investigation into the 2017 WannaCry outbreak found that the ransomware affected 34% of National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England. Following the May 2017 attack that struck more than 200,000 organizations in at least 100 countries, the UK government’s National Audit Office (NAO) launched an inquiry into the matter. Its purpose was to determine […]… Read More

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Bsides Lisbon and the car door

I’m truly honoured to have been invited to keynote at Bsides Lisbon this year on November 10th. It’ll be the first time I’ve visited Portugal, and the first time I’ve keynoted at a Bsides. Ordinarily I’d probably be feeling a bit apprehensive of speaking at a conference that I haven’t even attended, let alone keynote […]

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Cyber News Rundown: Edition 10/27/17

The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cyber news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst, and a guy with a passion for all things...read more

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The Time is Right for Multi-Cloud Key Management

Multi-cloud use – It’s here in spades One of the things we see every day at Thales is how the...

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Android takes aim at ISP surveillance with DNS privacy

Google turns its attention to your unencrypted DNS

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Traditional AV solutions shown ineffective in real-time global heat map

It's no secret that antivirus technology (AV) has faced increased scrutiny in the tech industry for quite some time. One way to truly gauge the effectiveness of today’s traditional AV solutions is by analyzing real-world data. So, we did just that.

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Remember the Security Basics: They Will Always be Tested

In the Army, we see the basic fundamental skills being tested on missions and operations. From jumping out of C-130 to performing sub submersion, operators’ basic skills are always being tested. This goes for IT professionals in any security setting, as well. Your basic skills sets will be tested everyday. I have seen junior support […]… Read More

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Common CISM Job Titles

Introduction Successful candidates that manage to gain certification in CISM will find that many new doors of opportunity have been opened to them. CISM holders are far more likely to land senior...

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How To Earn CISM CPE Credits

Introduction The CISM certification is bolstered by the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) policy, whose main purpose is to ensure that certified CISM holders are up to date with the most...

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Phoenix TS 2017 Annual Social Recap

On October 5, 2017 Phoenix TS hosted our annual social. The annual social is our way to say THANK YOU to our customers, students, and community members who make Phoenix TS so great! We missed seeing a lot of faces, so in case you couldn’t make it to the event, here’s the quick Phoenix TS […]

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Maintaining Your CISM Certification: Renewal Requirements

Understanding CISM Getting a leg up in the information security (infosec) space is no easy feat these days. It demands commitment, knowledge, and a fair amount of training. While some of this...

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CISM Exam Details and Process

Introduction Corporations have vast amounts of sensitive information and confidential data such as customer data, banking information and financial records, which need to be monitored closely to...

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Joy of Tech®, ‘A Self Driving Car Goes To The Shrink…’

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Active Directory as a Service Replacement

A new model of identity management is emerging. This new model is being driven from the cloud and is delivered in the “as a service” form. It’s arriving at the...

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The Most Coveted Must-Have Security Apps for Your Smartphone

Awareness and concern for privacy and security on the web are at an all-time high, mainly because of the ubiquitous nature of threats. From anti-viruses to ad blockers, from anonymous browsing apps to anti-tracking apps – there’s a lot for the mobile phone user to check out and possibly use. Particularly those who need to [...]

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How to Become CISM Certified – Certification Requirements

Introduction Achieving CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) certification is an accomplishment that only a select few IT professionals will attain in their careers. Worldwide, there are an...

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Please don’t buy this: smart locks

The announcement of Amazon Key, a smart lock paired with a security camera that lets couriers into your home, spawned our new series called "Please don't buy this."

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