First I must say I did not go to Las Vegas, all I did is hunt the Internet for pieces of information and did not copy completely, but edited to make it easier to understand when reading only (versus giving presentation within the hall): “Controlled Chaos” the Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security (Kelly Shortridge … Read more
The Number 1 reason is: “We do not do an adequate job of patching and paying attention to security!” Again and again we can find reports and stories of entities not doing basic tasks: Above image is from Protiviti report Why are the basics not being done? Because a concerted effort to manage IT … Read more
Kalo Mina = Have a good month in Greek. So remember to do some major backups on Holidays (always good to at least do 2 major backups per year. I like to do them on holidays like the 4th of July and Christmas for example. So before watching the fireworks and more – do a … Read more
There are quite a few Google projects of which some are focused on security(there are many more projects, but these are the ones that could be cybersecurity. The explanation which is in italics- i.e. copied from theGoogle project webpages): https://opensource.google.com/projects/ Abseil Abseil an open-source collection of library code. also at https://abseil.io/ Abseil C++ code … Read more
Thotcon (Chicago’s Hacking Conference) thoughts… Saw several good Cybersecurity presentations while one of the keynotes “Josh Corman” discussed the burnout of the infosec opsec community. This is a problem for our industry as I have discussed before in past posts. It has to do with the 3 following topics: 1. Workload to most infosec people … Read more
