Francis Cianfrocca, a leading expert on Advanced Persistent Threats, continues his overview of the issues following his first article on the topic in the InfoSec Perception blog. What follows is Mr Cianfrocca’s work with minor edits from M. E. Kabay. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) attack with privilege escalation and operate through application accesses that, to …
In business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), its commonplace to urge planners to create initial plans and then test them for ways to improve. This approach is parallel to the current standards of software development and risk management. In the 1960s and 1970s, the standard software development methodology was the system development …
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Because people execute security policies (or violate them), hiring, managing and (alas) firing are important aspects of information assurance (IA) management. In a recent class discussion of personnel policies and security, the IS342 Management of Information Assurance class reviewed some of the fundamental principles of personnel and security. To start with, we face two fundamental …
In both the classic triad of information assurance (IA) and in the Parkerian Hexad, integrity is a fundamental attribute of information that must be protected. Data integrity refers to the correctness of information; for example, integrity can refer to consistency with data’s original and intended state. Recently, a colleague and several of his research students …
Francis Cianfrocca, a leading expert on Advanced Persistent Threats, continues his overview of the issues following his first article on the topic in the InfoSec Perception blog. What follows is Mr Cianfrocca’s work with minor edits from M. E. Kabay. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) attack with privilege escalation and operate through application accesses that, to …
Francis Cianfrocca, a leading expert on Advanced Persistent Threats, continues his overview of the issues following his first article on the topic in the InfoSec Perception blog. What follows is Mr Cianfrocca’s work with minor edits from M. E. Kabay. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) attack with privilege escalation and operate through application accesses that, to …
Today I increased my virtue coefficient by getting to the swimming pool up the road from where I live (well, 7 km from where I live in farming country) early in the morning. On my way out after a vigorous set of laps (I normally swim a “mile,” which is an ancient measure of distance …
Book Title: Virtual Shadows Subtitle: Your Privacy in the Information Society Author: Karen Lawrence Öqvist Publisher: The British Computer Society (BCS) Date of Publishing: 20 December 2008 ISBN(13): 9781906124090 Price (UK&US price – full price, not discounted price): £14.99, $24.99 URL of Amazon UK web page: Virtual Shadows: Your Privacy in the Information Society URL …
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Book Title: Chained ExploitsSubtitle: Advanced Hacking Attacks from Start to FinishAuthor(s): Andrew Whitaker, Keatron Evans, Jack B. Voth Publisher: Pearsons Education Inc Date of Publishing: February 2009ISBN(13): 9780321498816 Price (UK&US price – full price, not discounted price): £36.99, $49.99 URL of Amazon UK web page: Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks from Start to Finish URL of …
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Book Title: Official (ISC)2® Guide to the ISSMP® CBK® Editor: Harold F. Tipton Contributor(s): James Litchko, Craig Steven Wright, Cheryl Hennell, Maura van der Linden and Keith D. Willett Publisher: Auerbach Publications Date of Publishing: 28 April 2011 ISBN(13): 9781420094435 Price (UK&US price – full price, not discounted price): £49.99, $69.95 URL of Amazon UK …