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Information security and business strategy Part 1

I've known David Greer for over 25 years and have always enjoyed his intelligence, good humor and creativity. And Stephen Northcutt is so widely published, cited and respected in our field that I had trouble deciding which of his many Web sites to cite. ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  23 Nov 2009

A different kind of antiviral donation for Africa

Africa is suffering from yet another plague: this one infects their computers instead of their communities. Chris Michael, writing in the English newspaper The Guardian in August 2009, summarized the situation as follows: "…Africa has become a hive of [ ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United States Agency for International Development

IA job prospects bright

No one reading this column needs general references to news about the economic difficulties we are living through in the United States and elsewhere. Just the other day, I spoke with a long-time friend and colleagues from the information security ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Monty Python

SP 800-53 is essential for security in federal government IT systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) SP 800-53 provides a unified information security framework to achieve information system security and effective risk management across the entire Federal Government. In ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  4 Nov 2009

Extensive Catalog Provides Security Controls for Contemporary Security Requirements

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) SP 800-53 provides a unified information security framework to achieve information system security and effective risk management across the entire federal government. In ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  2 Nov 2009

NIST SP800-53 Rev. 3: Risk Management Framework Underpins the Security Life Cycle

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) SP 800-53 provides a unified information security framework to achieve information system security and effective risk management across the entire federal government. In ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  28 Oct 2009

NIST SP800-53 Rev. 3: Key to Unified Security Across Federal Government and Private Sectors

Standards play a critical role in information assurance. Given the impossibility of defining a deterministic model that includes billions of users, millions of computers, and thousands of programs and protocols potentially interacting with each other ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  26 Oct 2009

Understanding and implementing information security metrics

How do we manage what we can't measure? One of the cornerstones of the scientific method is measurability: a focus on defining the ways of counting or measuring aspects of reality that we hope will be strongly associated with the phenomena we are ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Isaac Newton

Understanding, implementing IT security metrics

Network World - How do we manage what we can't measure? One of the cornerstones of the scientific method is measurability: a focus on defining the ways of counting or measuring aspects of reality that we hope will be strongly associated with the ...

From M. E. KABAY, ComputerWorld,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Isaac Newton

The Norm Coleman Web crash and full disclosure

How do we make ethical decisions? It is surely not by announcing preferences as if we were choosing a flavor of ice cream. There are guidelines we can follow in making ethical decisions, as Professor John Orlando, PhD described in an earlier series in ...

From M. E. KABAY, NetworkWorld,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Norm Coleman,  Twitter Inc,  U.S. Republican Party,  Al Franken,  Flickr

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