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May 31, 2015

Misnomer

I’ve written before how government agencies misuse terminology associated with information security but it seems to persist and continues to mislead. The latest is…

August 18, 2011

TV kills!

I keep telling everybody that TV is injurious to your (mental) health, but does anyone listen? Why should they? They didn’t when Gerry Mander…

June 21, 2011

In praise of OSSTMM

In case you’re not aware, ISECOM (Institute for Security and Open Methodologies) has OSSTMM3 – The Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual – http://www.isecom.org/osstmm/…

February 28, 2010

The FBI risk equation

It seems that to make better cybersecurity-related decisions a senior FBI official recommends considering a simple algebraic equation: risk = threat x vulnerability x…

November 13, 2009

The Cost of patching

I saw this assertion go by and it stood out: The bigger cost would be the cost of not patching. Such items as downtime…

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