Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor in #Cyberspace

As we prepare for the next attack (also waiting for BlackHat2015) I remember the Pearl harbor movie: TORA!TORA!TORA!  1970 Classic Tora Tora Tora トラ・トラ・トラ means “We have achieved complete surprise” in Japanese codeword. A translation is Tiger.  Tora (Tορα) is translated to  “now” from Greek. Torah is the law in hebrew or better known as the … Read more

One Cyber Mistake Causes Problem$

All it takes is one patch is missed, One computer not taken care of. Computers must be patched so that Zero-day exploits have minimal affects.  We discussed this on July 20th http://oversitesentry.com/why-security-news-scrutinized-to-nth-degree/ Let’s review:   After a vulnerability is introduced, an exploit hits the “wild” and then the clock starts ticking, the attackers(criminal hackers) and defenders(software … Read more

Security Saves From Breach Affects

  I am always working on trying to explain how better security can save your company from headaches and certain disaster in the future. While also figuring out why people are just not paying attention to security in general. And as they say a picture says a thousand words. So lets discuss my little pie … Read more

Cyber jokes Friday Edition v1.0

#10 You can take the nerd out of the cyber war room, but you can’t remove the computers. Actually I found it at  http://archives.thedailydose.com/2011/the-daily-dose-Sunday,_2011-05-29,_07:44.html Also a good Abbott and Costello Cyber routine: http://jokes.cc.com/funny-technology/y5spt3/abbott—costello-s-cyber-routine This is a good “Cyber Joke” movie:  “The Interview” It is pretty funny – to think that somebody hacked Sony due to … Read more

Evaluate 5 NGFW Firewalls Five Points

My own criteria list, although using ideas from a 2012 discussion of NGFW InformationWeek-NetworkComputing: #1 Profitability and longevity.  You don’t want to buy a firewall and then have the company have financial problems even 5 years down the road.  (so startups need not apply – sorry) #2 Speed throughput – we have to be capable … Read more