Category: best practices

Security near misses are opportunities for learning and improvement, but when they are ignored, they can play a role in setting the stage for serious incidents. Use them wisely!

We need to work with system designers and developers to make them understand that using a secure credential vault with programmatic access is not an optional luxury – it is a basic security requirement. Credentials do not belong in code, even if that code is stored in a safe inside a vault inside a volcano.

Yet another example of how LinkedIn can be abused by the bad guys… a phishing campaign which used job titles scraped from user profiles to…

An interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review highlights the one of the challenges information security professionals face when dealing with security awareness; we actively…

The headline is eye catching: a data breach at a highly respected security training organization when an employee falls for a phishing email. It is…

Stories of hackers attacking companies by dropping malware infected USB flash drives in the firm’s parking lot are a standard infosec cautionary tale – don’t…

I was thinking about the way that the concept of a “perimeter” has changed in the time I have been in information security. (Obviously, I…

I came across an interesting white paper from the deep mists of the past (2011) which is as relevant today as it was back when…

We security management types would like to think that every task we give our minions is exciting and engaging. However, there are lots of security…

Lately, I have been seeing a number of posts and articles warning us all not to use publicly available USB charging points due to the…