Pen Testing Versus Vulnerability Assessments
At the end of the first day of plenary sessions at OWASP App Sec DC 2010, there was a session...
Read MoreOWASP App Sec DC 2010 General Recap
The OWASP App Sec 2010 conference ended today. The format and content of some of the talks made for a...
Read MoreOWASP AppSec DC 2010 is Upon Us!!
This is a short reminder to everyone out there that OWASP’s annual conference in Washington, DC is next week. There...
Read MoreCurrent State of FISMA Part 3: What Is the Target?
A Follow-up on Quantitative Risk Analysis
The other day Terry wrote a piece on risk assessment, and focused primarily on quantitative assessment. It brought to mind...
Read MoreA Requirement By Any Other Name….
Since we’ve covered FISMA and NIST recently, I thought it would be a good time to discuss policies, standards, guidelines,...
Read MoreThe Value of Quantitative Risk Analysis
Greetings blog followers and welcome to my inaugural blog post. I have recently joined the MindPoint Group family and look...
Read MoreThe Current State of FISMA Part 2: The Chasm Between Compliance and . . Everyone Else
Current State of FISMA Part 1: FISMA-bashing
When it comes to FISMA we have seen two things: Over the last 8 years the federal government has...
Read MoreGmail Account Hacks
It seems that sometime within the last 12 hours there has been a widespread attack against Gmail. I first noticed...
Read MoreCurrent State of FISMA Series
Not that FISMA was ever not a hot topic for security professionals in and around the Federal government, but lately...
Read MoreOff Topic Rant About Office Suites
Reputation Filtering and Old Nightmares
So, I saw this update over at the SANS Internet Storm Center, and it pushed a button. Well, I should...
Read MoreSearch Poisoning and Security Awareness Training
I was talking to my brother just now about recent search poisoning that was occurring related to the story about...
Read MoreTPM Chip Hacked
Darkreading and a few other sites have posted this story about a security researcher named Chris Tarnovsky who has been...
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