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CERT's Podcast Series - 0 views

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Cert podcast

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  • sandy ingram on 12 Feb 09
     
    CERT'S PODCASTS: SECURITY FOR BUSINESS LEADERS: SHOW NOTES Tackling Tough Challenges: Insights from CERT's Director Rich Pethia Key Message: Rich Pethia reflects on CERT's 20-year history and discusses how he is positioning the program to tackle future IT and security challenges. Executive Summary CERT's vision is a securely connected world. CERT's mission is to enable informed trust and confidence in the use of information technology. To achieve this vision and mission, CERT has broadened its perspective to include the full system/software engineering and operations life cycle and is reaching out to thought leaders in the global IT and security community. In this podcast, Rich Pethia, director of the CERT Program at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, discusses the past, current, and future state of Internet security and CERT's role in tackling future challenges as CERT celebrates its 20th anniversary. PART 1: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY CERT's Vantage Point CERT's vision is a securely connected world, supported by CERT's mission of enabling informed trust and confidence in the use of information technology. As the director of CERT, Pethia has unique access to government, commercial, and industry leaders. The Good News Internet use continues to grow, not just in size (number of people, volume of traffic) but also in utility, for example: * the increasing amount of real government and business operations * the introduction of new applications * the growing use of new mobile appliances User awareness of the need to address security is increasing along with increasing attention from service providers (firewalls, virus protection, anti-spyware, data backup). Developers are paying more attention to building security into their products. Vendors have more mature processes for providing cost-effective, timely updates for software vulnerabilities. Users are more willing
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REPORT: show lack of executive oversight in data protection. - 0 views

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informaiton executive board cybersecurity Report Carnegie Mellon Red Flag

shared by sandy ingram on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • survey also said that cybersecurity issues need to be seen as an enterprise risk management problem rather than an IT issue.
  • "Managing cyber risk is not just a technical challenge, but it is a managerial and strategic business challenge,"
  • senior management has not budgeted for key positions requiring expertise in cybersecurity or privacy areas. "No wonder the number of security breaches has doubled in the past year
  • sandy ingram on 03 Dec 08
     
    survey also said that cybersecurity issues need to be seen as an enterprise risk management problem rather than an IT issue.
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Carnegie Mellon - MySecureCyberspace: Setting Up a Secure Network in the Office #smb #grc - 0 views

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Privacy security Best Practice

shared by sandy ingram on 28 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Staying Wired When possible and convenient, use a wired network. Wired networks, whose signals are contained within wires, are much safer than wireless networks, whose signals are broadcast into the air. One can be safe from a number of malicious attacks by connecting a computer to the router (a device that connects networks, in this case, your local network to the Internet) via an ethernet cable, instead of connecting via wireless. Appropriate network settings, of course, must be entered into the computers.
  • Taking the Office Wireless
  • Securing Each Network Node
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  • If a wireless network is desired, use the following recommendations.
  • Next, security must be implemented on the computers that will connect to the network, known as the "network nodes."
  • sandy ingram on 28 Dec 10
     
    "A secure office network is the first step towards secure computing. Following are a few suggestions to secure networking at work."
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