Jay Heiser

The Commonwealth of Virginia has recently announced that they have settled up with their service provider, Northrup Grumman, over an incident last year that apparently brought down 3/4 of state applications, resulted in the loss of a several days worth of drivers license photos, and forced state offices to open on weekends.  Compensation to the state, [...]

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Category: Cloud risk management     Tags: backups, BCP/DR, continuity, critical infrastructure, disaster recovery, risk management, Security-Summit-NA, storage

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Is it really possible that a single attack can simultaneously impact 100,000,000 people? Multi-tenancy truly gives new significance to concerns about monoculture risk.

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Category: Cloud IT Governance risk management security     Tags: backups, BCP/DR, Cloud, cloud security, continuity, critical infrastructure, disaster recovery, risk assessment, risk management, security, Security-Summit-NA

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“What would be the social/economic/national/global impact of an incident that affected all the customers of a major provider?”

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Category: Cloud risk management security Strategic Planning     Tags: Cloud, cloud disaster, cloud regulation, cloud security, critical infrastructure, disaster recovery, national security, public policy, security

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Whatever the source of Stuxnet, it would be naïve not to expect that the knowledge that such a thing is possible and existent has not already begun stimulating the minds of the politically-motived malware makers.

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Category: security     Tags: critical infrastructure, history, malware, security, Stuxnet

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