Recently a writer for an online publication emailed me asking for a quote regarding the overall state of security. She wanted to hear about trends and know if there was a “go to” vendor. After a particularly rough week at…
Tag: information security
You Probably Already Have Most of the Security Tools You Need
Tools – information security is fecund* with them, but it never seems like we have what we need. So what’s a poor security analyst supposed to do? In a recent two-part article, I discussed the built-in security functionalities of many…
Cyber Security versus Information Security
You may have seen our post on the difference between information security and information assurance. But how does cyber security fit into all this? Well, according to this recent article on JDSupra some see cyber as being broader than plain…
ISC2’s GISWS Right in Time for RSA Conference
For the sixth straight year (ISC)2 has released its Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) based on surveys completed by over 12,000 security professionals. As expected the big take-away is that there is a huge shortage of information security professionals,…
Someone in China Hacked the New York Times … Surprise Surprise
China made the headlines last night in an article published by the New York Times stating that for the last four months Chinese hackers have been ‘infiltrating its computer systems’ and obtaining passwords of reporters. The New York Times also…
Top 3 NoVA Infosec Blog Posts of the Week
It’s that time of the week again: the time where we take a look at what local security bloggers have been up to. As ShmooCon 2011 was this past weekend, it only proper for us to name our number three…
GovSec 2010 Day 1 Wrap-Up
The first day of the GovSec Expo & Conference event was held at the Washington DC Convention Center yesterday. It featured a rich variety of topics and focused on various IT solutions and critical technology. The conference delivered topics from…
ShmooCon 2010 NoVA Speakers
It took a month but we’ve done it; after ShmooCon 2010, we decided to pay homage to our local speakers at the conference. We had Doug Wilson speaking on Friday and Trevor Hawthorn, Richard Goldberg and Pete Markowsky on Saturday. All…
CharmSec Infosec Meetup Event – Thursday, 09-24: Normal Meeting
If you haven’t had a chance to already, be sure to check out the CharmSec meetup this upcoming Thursday, September 24th. Taking place over dinner and drinks, the CharmSec meetups are a relaxed way to meet local security professionals. If…
HacDC Infosec Meetup Monday, 09-14: Microcontroller Mondays
Open to the public, HacDC will be hosting their usual “Microcontroller Mondays” meetup this upcoming Monday, September 14th. HacDC ecourages people to stop by with their microcontroller project to either “learn, teach or just hang out with other microcontroller enthusiasts.”…