It has been my great pleasure working with Rochester Community and Technical College (RCTC) and the Mayo Clinic information security group since 2019 presenting a CISSP certification class. For the first time RCTC is offering this class to the general public. If part of your professional development plan is achieving the CISSP certification, you should take a look at ...
Perhaps your company has purchased secondhand phones or computers, only to discover that the previous owners had left personal information on them. Or perhaps you’ve heard of major corporations getting penalized millions of dollars for improperly disposing of their IT assets.
Or perhaps you’ve read frightening news reports of landfills stacked high with discarded devices in poor countries, ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.China enacted the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) on August 21, 2021 as part of that country’s growing scrutiny of its high tech sector. This law goes into effect on November 1, 2021 and will impose a new set of obligations for data security, especially when combined China’s Data Protection Law. ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Are your network cables acting as undercover wireless transmitters? What can you do if they are?
A few posts from Bruce Schneier
[2021.09.22] The Washington Post reports that the FBI had a decryption ...
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Cybersecurity is one of the hottest sectors today, with new threats and challenges emerging each day. And with that, there is a huge push being undertaken by both business and education sectors to attract individuals toward a degree and career in cyber. Interested in joining this exciting new workforce? Here are a few reasons why pursuing a degree ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A Sonatype survey also found a 650% year-over-year increase in supply chain attacks aimed at upstream public repositories.
“It is a matter of time before working exploits are available,” warns VMware.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.[2021.08.30] Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.
[2021.08.25] Vice has an article about how ...
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Today is the 20th anniversary of a day that I will never forget. I was driving home after dropping my son off at school, and listening to the KQRS Morning Show with Tom Barnard on the radio when ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Verizon aims to find out by testing the technology, which is geared at enhancing encryption methods using session key exchange security mechanisms, the carrier said.
One of the trends that I am seeing, at least as it applies to the curriculum used in most cybersecurity certifications, such as the CISSP, CASP+, and CySA+, is that technology is moving to a software-defined, virtualized everything. The latest issue of the Internet Protocol Journal, Volume 24, Issue 2, July 2021 has an interesting article titled Network Functions Virtualization. Reading the article made me think back to the topics I’d been teaching about Software-Defined Networking, which involves splitting traditional router functions into the ...
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