by John Pescatore | March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
The latest version of the draft Cybersecurity Act of 2010, S.773 (commonly called the Rockefeller/Snowe bill) includes a section on Certification and Training of Cybersecurity Professionals: The President shall enter into an agreement with the National Academies to conduct a comprehensive study of government, academic, and private-sector accreditation, training, and certification programs for personnel working [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
Once upon a time there were three little pigs and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes. Before they left, their mother told them ” Whatever you do , do it the best that you can because that’s the way to get along in the world. The first little pig built [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 23, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Advertising supported content is expensive, not free, when the ads deliver malware. See CNET article here.
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by John Pescatore | March 22, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched ’round and ’round ’til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on Bruce Springsteen, 1992: “57 [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 19, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I spent two days this week in New York City meeting with Gartner clients who are market analysts at investment companies that follow security companies. Thousands of years ago (well, in the 1970′s), Gartner’s founder (Gideon Gartner) was one of the top technology analysts on Wall Street, and thought the techniques he used to analyse [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 18, 2010 | Submit a Comment
A lot of press coverage this week on the 2009 Internet Fraud Report, produced by the FBI and the Internet Crime Center. That study says reported Internet fraud in 2009 totaled $560M. This number is based on reported incidents, so let’s assume it is low, say a factor of three low. So, let’s say the Internet fraud [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 17, 2010 | Submit a Comment
When people use portable devices, some will get lost/stolen, no exceptions.
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by John Pescatore | March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
cognitive dissonance: anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves strongly of one of his or her habits. Last week, the Israeli military called off a raid after a soldier leaked information about the raid on his Facebook page. About [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
As Barbie said, “Alliteration is hard!” Apparently, after Bob Maley, the CISO of the State of Pennsylvania, spoke at the recent RSA conference and mentioned an attack against State systems, he was fired for not obtaining permission to speak on official state matters. Now, violating rules does justify punishment. If this had occurred before and [...]
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by John Pescatore | March 10, 2010 | Submit a Comment
There are a number of life sayings that are generally good advice, such as “Don’t defecate where you eat” or “Don’t fornicate where you work.” Basically, creating zones with separation between fundamentally different activities that don’t go well together. So, it was good to see Ford Motor Company taking a shot at building some security zones into [...]
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