Good afternoon everybody! I hope your day is going well.
Here are today's Interesting Information Security Bits from around the web.
- I find this a little alarming. Particularly with the number of recent Facebook worms that have cropped up.
Army Orders Bases to Stop Blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr | Danger Room | Wired.com
Tags: ( social-media army ) - More on database encryption. Good stuff.
Securosis Blog | Database Encryption, Part 2: Selection Process Overview
Tags: ( database encryption ) - Good stuff, but remember making the boss look stupid is a career limiting move
A chat with the boss | The Infosec Cynic
Tags: ( general ) - Here is an output of Project Quant. The first phase of the patch management cycle. Rich is looking for feedback.
Details: Monitor for Advisories
Tags: ( patch-management ) - Like a pet rock, a pet risk doesn't really help you much. Check out Ron's suggestions below.
Pet Risks - A New View of Risk Management : The Security Catalyst
Tags: ( risk-management ) - Chris was looking for some incident response templates and hit the motherlode of suggestions. He put them all together in a blog post. A very good reference page.
Dr. InfoSec: Incident Response Templates, Cheat Sheets, and more
Tags: ( incident-response ) - A couple days ago I pointed to the crossword puzzle challenge/contest being put on by Sophos. Well, it's all done and there is a winner. The link below contains the answer sheet if you are interested.
Solution to computer security cryptic crossword | Graham Cluley's blog
Tags: ( challenge )
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Kevin
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Finding a robust patch management solution is becoming more and more difficult as machines are less and less accessible to the management console. I have found success using patch management from Kaseya. Because of the agent based framework, I have connectivity to every machine that is connected to the Internet, independent of location.