Monitoring Your Network: Is Firewall Best?

I’m always monitoring multiple newsfeeds for the latest Security news (this is why I set up my top30 Security News Analyzed page).   In my review I found the following 2 links which are tied into a recurring theme us security people attempt to work through.   CIO’s real security headache http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-cios-real-security-headache/ Six technical measures … Read more

Manual vs. Automated Scan Tests

What does it mean to say check my firewall with an automated pentest scan? That means to test the firewall using various programs to review the vulnerabilities using an application like Nessus or Nikto to test the IP address for vulnerabilities known to Nessus or Nikto. Nessus:             The above … Read more

90% CC Machines Have Default Password

As I was going through the Top 100Cyber  Security blogs  one post stood out to me: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/technology/credit-card-machine-hack/ Apparently 90% of all credit card machines have  the default password , which happens to be: 166816 and Z66816 since 1990.   So there are several problems here: 1.  The same default password for many years by the manufacturers … Read more

WiFi – PCI compliance: Why is it Important?

    New devices and old alike:   The issue with WiFi is that it is a network piece that can bite you if you are not aware of it.   In PCI compliance the relevant section (besides the sections for configuring your device correctly at 4.1) The testing of Wireless networks is in 11.1: … Read more

Is The Firewall Useless? or Less Useful?

Even a Next Generation Firewall(NGFW) will not save your network if the fundamental architecture is designed to prevent the firewall from working properly. Asaf Cidon Posted the following at informationweekDARKReading: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/why-the-firewall-is-increasingly-irrelevant/a/d-id/1320800     Obviously a firewall protects machines and users that are behind the firewall. So as Asaf rightly points out when the user data is … Read more