The security field needs more practitioners. The insanity that is our “always-connected” world necessitates more resources to manage, monitor, and maintain personal and enterprise data – from email accounts to mobile phones to chock-full-of-tech refrigerators.
A few decades ago, we advanced information security with a simple phrase: "the Internet is bad, a firewall is good." We linked the dangers of connecting to others online with a simple method of protecting our companies. Now our ever-changing networks face dynamic, evolving threats.
Almost every morning I wake up and read about another company that has been breached, and consumers' or patients' information has been stolen as a result. It's getting to be so common that social security numbers and credit card numbers posted on dark Web sites sell for less than a dollar each.
Security professionals spend a lot of time thinking about protecting their back end systems and the information contained therein. They think about the scariest and sneakiest vulnerabilities and what an exploit means in real terms: will this disrupt business operations? Will our company lose sensitive data? Will I be fired?
You can tune into our live stream today, Friday March 11, 2011 and Saturday March 12,2011 from 12PM through 9PM EST for information about the hacking competition, ZigBee badge hacking, and several talks: NOTE: You can also visit Security Weekly Live! and hang out in our IRC channel
I would like today in my birthday and the day before the start of a new year not to give my predictions but share my personal opinions about the security industry in general and share some of the ideas I have to improve some of the areas of it. Professionals All of us in the […]
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