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Book Title: Securing the Clicks Subtitle: Network Security in an Age of Social Media Author(s): Gary Bahadure, Jason Inasi and Alex de Carvalho Publisher: McGraw Hill Date of Publishing: 1st Dec 2011 ISBN(13): 9780071769051 Price (UK&US price – full price, not discounted price): £29.99,  $40.00 URL of Amazon UK web page: Securing the Clicks Network …

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We’ll be appearing at Infosecurity Europe 2012 next week and we hope you’ll take a few minutes to come and say hello. Terry Neal, our CEO, will be there for the three days of the exhibition and will be manning the stand for half of that time, while meeting and greeting our clients, authors and …

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Book Title: Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition Author(s): Seymour Bosworth, M.E. Kabay, Eric Whyne Publisher: Wiley Date of Publishing: 10th March 2009 ISBN(13): 9780471716525 Price (UK&US price – full price, not discounted price): £150, $220.95 URL of Amazon UK web page:  Computer Security Handbook URL of Amazon UK (Kindle) web page: Not available. URL of …

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A local reporter spent eight hours interviewing students and faculty in the computer science and information assurance (IA) programs at Norwich University a couple of days before I began writing this article. At one point, he asked half a dozen of our students what they felt was special about their education in the School of …

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Former student, good friend and brilliant colleague Jan Buitron, MSIA, CISSP, MCSE tells us a whimsical tale with lessons for us in the security field. Everything that follows is Jan’s work with minor edits by Mich. It was a big project for a homeowner. My friend set out to design, dig and decorate a fish …

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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 …

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Vulnerability management is the embodiment of continuous process improvement in system security. In a recent discussion in the Norwich University IS342 (Management of Information Assurance) course in the Bachelor of Science in Computer Security and Information Assurance, the class reviewed Rebecca Gurley Bace’s chapter 46, “Vulnerability Assessment” from the Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition. Bace …

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A local reporter spent eight hours interviewing students and faculty in the computer science and information assurance (IA) programs at Norwich University a couple of days before I began writing this article. At one point, he asked half a dozen of our students what they felt was special about their education in the School of …

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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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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 …

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