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Problem: You’re on the board of a business and want to verify the business is implementing appropriate measures to adhere to security and privacy best practices. What instruments should the business be able to provide you as assurance?
Problem: You’re on the board of a business and want to verify the business is implementing appropriate measures to adhere to security and privacy best practices. What instruments should the business be able to provide you as assurance?
Encryption is one of the foundations of keeping data secure, if a hacker can't read the information they've stolen, it's useless. Storing unencrypted cardholder data in any part of your website is asking for trouble. Hackers know what to look for and where to find it, so you need to ensure you're encrypting data.
Based on real and potential weaknesses identified in existing security protocols as well as industry guidance on algorithms, the following are some things to bear in mind when considering your business’ plans for encryption in 2018.
Given there’s a lot of talk about containerisation in the applications marketplace at the moment, this post is intended to provide a light introduction to the subject with a few pointers on security.
We’ll start at the beginning and ramp up really quickly. DevOps is a portmanteau of development and operations. We can consider it to mean automation of platform operations, or scripted operations.
Wikipedia has the following definition:
"DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software delivery process that emphasizes communication and collaboration from concept to market, including product management, software development, and operations professionals.
A few months ago, I was working on a risk assessment with a business and one of the most extreme threats, beyond targeted malware, was an attack by a nation state. Given the nature of the business being assessed wasn't involved in, or related to critical infrastructure, and the IP wasn't such that it was of national or military importance to gain leverage, we gave the risk a low rating. In recent months, due to the leaking of custom malware developed by the NSA, the tools considered available only to nation states are now available to everyone. Where the internet democratised the attack vectors employable against entities with an online presence, the leak of custom, targeted malware, has lowered the barrier to entry such that even non-sophisticated malicious actors can leverage the experience, expertise and destructive force of a nation state.
Problem: You’re on the board of a business and want to verify the business is implementing appropriate measures to adhere to security and privacy best practices. What instruments should the business be able to provide you as assurance?
Encryption is one of the foundations of keeping data secure, if a hacker can't read the information they've stolen, it's useless. Storing unencrypted cardholder data in any part of your website is asking for trouble. Hackers know what to look for and where to find it, so you need to ensure you're encrypting data.
Based on real and potential weaknesses identified in existing security protocols as well as industry guidance on algorithms, the following are some things to bear in mind when considering your business’ plans for encryption in 2018.
Given there’s a lot of talk about containerisation in the applications marketplace at the moment, this post is intended to provide a light introduction to the subject with a few pointers on security.
We’ll start at the beginning and ramp up really quickly. DevOps is a portmanteau of development and operations. We can consider it to mean automation of platform operations, or scripted operations.
Wikipedia has the following definition:
"DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a software delivery process that emphasizes communication and collaboration from concept to market, including product management, software development, and operations professionals.
A few months ago, I was working on a risk assessment with a business and one of the most extreme threats, beyond targeted malware, was an attack by a nation state. Given the nature of the business being assessed wasn't involved in, or related to critical infrastructure, and the IP wasn't such that it was of national or military importance to gain leverage, we gave the risk a low rating. In recent months, due to the leaking of custom malware developed by the NSA, the tools considered available only to nation states are now available to everyone. Where the internet democratised the attack vectors employable against entities with an online presence, the leak of custom, targeted malware, has lowered the barrier to entry such that even non-sophisticated malicious actors can leverage the experience, expertise and destructive force of a nation state.
