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Policies Are (some) Man’s Best Friend
I recently got into a discussion (not an argument… a discussion) with a fellow electrical engineer. We were discussing the impact of Steve Jobs and his recent passing. To be completely honest, I am a...
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FedRAMP : Cloud Controls to Manage Risk
Just like I did for FISMA, I wanted to review the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Security Controls (FedRAMP) current release and provide you with my view of it. They indicate the...
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Antivirus … Why exactly do we use this software?
Don’t you love it when you hear a song and it just sets you into this mood… Makes you want to dance and sing down the aisle of the airplane? NO?… oh.. maybe it is just me. Any way, the song isn’t the...
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DoD New Security Safeguards
DoD recently sent out a tweet (@DeptofDefense) informing all that they have “bolstered safeguards for security information“. After reviewing how they bolstered it, I found it interesting that they...
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Facebook Security
This post was composed in March 2013. I wanted to make this clear because I am pretty sure that Facebook will change their security settings again and this will post will be completely out of date. You...
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Do as I Say, Not as I Do – Security
The great thing about my new job… I get to talk about security all day. Whether it is talking about VMware vCloud Networking and Security or the security of the hypervisor or even security requirements...
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Security vs. Compliance
As a security evangelist, I talk security… but let me be clearer, I don’t talk compliance. Ok, so maybe I talk about compliance as well but one thing that I always stress is that security and...
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Passwords… 123456… What’s The Big Deal?
I was recently flying to California and sat next to a woman on the flight who worked for a biometrics company. The discussion of biometrics for use in authentication has always been interesting topic...
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VMware Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide
VMware recently released the Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide. This whitepaper was written to assist with the additional components that an administrator may choose to implement on the...
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Breaches Preventing Shopping or Does It?
I recently saw this interesting “USA Snapshot” from USA Today. I love these snapshots… quick and easy and starts the discussion. It certainly started this discussion because I happened to be with my...
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banks rants – Facebook cloned accounts
I have to admit, I was not familiar with Facebook cloned accounts until last week when at least one of my friends ran into this issue. Even though USA Today wrote a report on it last year (2017), it...
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banks rants – never forget it is YOUR data
Recently there has been a lot of drama about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and what they did or did not do with our Facebook data but in my mind, I want to ask everyone… what were you thinking they...
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banks rants – amazon echo… this IS a privacy issue
Yeah… technology is listening in on our conversations and sending it to people on our contacts lists and no one seems to care. Yup. Amazon Echo is going just that and people seem to be ignoring it or...
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