Companies in the news for security breaches are now benefiting from their newly found hindsight via way of a lack of security point of view. These views come at a highly expensive cost and it should come as no surprise that many companies will continuously and gratuitously benefit from those views. The reason I believe this is because companies just don 't get it. At the cost of millions of dollars spent post compromise, companies rush off to apply band-aids where sutures are needed. Anyone with a connection to the Internet who has viewed any form of news site in recent weeks have come to know their names: RSA, Sony, Nintendo, L3, Northrop and the list goes on and on.
Where do these companies go wrong? With so much already being spent on security
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It seems to be "wasted dollars" for security managers and C-Level types since they cannot measure ROIs on voodoo metrics. You know those voodoo metrics well, they are usually cleverly scrawled across every security management level certification you could find: ALE = SLE x ARO or ROSI = R - ALE, where ALE = (R-E) + T. Too many security charlatans have flooded the security arena with this nonsense for too long.
Can we state that Citi, BofA, L3 and others never used these metrics? If they state that they did not, they would be hurting their reputation. We can infer that the outcome of these metrics are useless and this is as obvious a statement as "tomorrow is another day." So how do does the security industry change this backwards approach to security while keeping costs low, and security measures high? Simple, take a different approach to security as a whole.
In a recent case, [6] a judge ruled that a bank was not responsible for fradulent transfers made from an account. In this case, both the bank and the customer lose; the bank loses a customer, the customer loses their money. Case closed. However, imagine if the bank had a validate policy in place where any
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In other instances such as say the Sony compromise, the cost of securing that network would have been far less than the estimated 170 million [7] they dished out. The existing approach to security however would have still likely led to a compromise. This is because companies are looking at security as: "build a bigger wall, add a moat, throw sharks in the lake." What they fail to see is that most of the existing attacks are not "coming through the front door." Many are client side attacks [8] where an attacker is leveraging a machine already inside of a network in order to burrow out a trusted network where the attacker can then control that machine. How do you defend against this? It is just as simple as defending from the other side of the "wall." You build mechanisms to inspect what is leaving your network. Disgustingly simple isn 't it?
Ask any security manager or C-Level why they won 't apply this and you are likely to be bombarded with a hodge-podge of voodoo metrics: SLE = EF x AV x CTM or ROI = ALE - (( ALE - (ALE - ALE2)) + T ) in other words, covering one 's ass is far more important than actually getting the job done right. This is
For example credit card transactions and security breaches have occurred which have cost the company million of dollars. Target Corporation must do a better job of securing its data to prevent future loss in profit, sales, and stock values.
A sinkhole attacker places itself at very strong status in the network and informs a high quality route to destination or spoofs neighboring nodes that are neighboring the destination. The compromised node at the sinkhole’s heart could then perform selective forwarding, packet dropping or data manipulation [19].
allow almost anyone access to the internet virtually anonymously and untraceably. The cyber investigator can attempt to obtain the IP address, which would lead investigators to the actual computer used to commit a crime. (Walker, Brock, & Stuart, 2006) However, when that computer is in a net café, with literally hundreds of potential users, finding the one person who committed the crime just becomes infinitely more difficult to achieve because the criminal knows that there are open ports to gain free unlimited access to the internet.
However, I feel users had a different vision/perspective on security mechanisms and they trusted each other during those times and did not have to worry about protecting their information (this is how exactly, one person’s ignorance becomes another’s person’s - hacker, here bliss). This book helps us to understand the vulnerabilities; its impacts and why it is important to address/ fix those holes.
...ve alone, with proper regulations, they could be very successful. Such regulations include limiting privileged employees who can remove the security tags, and permitting only select employees the authority to open security cases. These approaches accomplish similar results—they stop employee theft—and at the same time, mitigate the violation of privacy rights and legal proceedings.
This latest string of hacks have revolved around the ease at which hackers can find other computers connected to the internet, hack into those, and use their computing power for help in the attack. A company called Norse Corp. has developed ways to monitor this traffic.
What may have started as a seemingly boring and meaningless computer check up and accounting problem, turned into an investigation and search for a military spy for the KGB. It seems that the more that the technical revolution grows and gets relied on more, the level of security becomes necessary to grow past it. It seems to be an ongoing battle to protect and monitor information from possible threats and hackers.
With security being a major part of our country 's problems, the government is cracking down on
As electronic commerce, online business-to-business operations, and global connectivity have become vital components of a successful business strategy, enterprises have adopted security processes and practices to protect information assets. But if you look at today's computing environments, system security is a horrible game of numbers: there are currently over 9,223 publicly released vulnerabilities covering known security holes in a massive range of applications from popular Operating Systems through to obscure and relatively unknown web applications. [01] Over 300 new vulnerabilities are being discovered and released each month. Most companies work diligently to maintain an efficient, effective security policy, implementing the latest products and services to prevent fraud, vandalism, sabotage, and denial of service attacks. But the fact is you have to patch every hole of your system, but an attacker need find only one to get into your environment. Whilst many organisations subscribe to major vendor's security alerts, these are just the tip of the security iceberg and even these are often ignored. For example, the patch for the Code Red worm was available some weeks before the worm was released. [02]
...n. While many people don’t realize it, there is always risk when you use the internet. You must be able to know how to defend yourself against these attacks or you risk losing it all.
Criminals take advantage of weak cybersecurity measures in order to perform criminal acts and warfare over the Internet.
Extrusion is a compressive and deformation process. The process entails squeezing a block of material such as Aluminium, forcing it through a die. The die has a job of reducing it’s diameter and increasing it’s length. This method results in a constant cross-sectional cut and a desired shape. The process of extrusion is mainly used in situations where the material can’t be hammered or bended due to their specific properties such as being too soft or too brittle. The common materials that can be extruded include metals such as Aluminium, Copper, Lead and steel, plastics, ceramics and concrete. The method of extrusion can be either semi-continuous or continuous.
the risk of security incidents and breaches is reduced by encouraging employees to think and act in more security conscious ways;
But if we were to make our systems more secure which means we would have to limit access to the network we are connected on and isolate all resources, which means contradicting the whole point of distributed
Hackers have existed since the launch of the internet itself. Hackers, who pride themselves on demolishing data and changing a computer’s structure, use digital armaments to take advantage of the naiveté of the internet. Although hackers use a variety of me...