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Survey of ISO certifications, results for 2015

ISO is having surveys about number of ISO certifications, it is worth to have a look 🙂 The table below is taken from the executive summary. There are also excel files available for each ISO standard that shows certifications per … Continue reading

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Study report “Women in Cybersecurity”, by several co-authors

It is worth to have a look at the recent study report called The 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study: Women in Cybersecurity. It can be found at the research page od the the Center for Cyber Safety and Education, … Continue reading

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Converting ISO 27002 into an excel and a graph

ISO 27002 “Code of practice for information security controls” list 144 controls with the same structure for all the controls. If one would like to work on these controls, like reusing them in another documentation or doing a presentation etc, … Continue reading

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OpenWrt, an alternative for improving network security at home with firewall and web proxy

Introduction OpenWrt is a Linux distribution that can be loaded into many wireless routers by replacing the original firmware with OpenWrt firmware. The picture below shows 2 such routers, together with Raspberry Pi on the right for comparison. My interest … Continue reading

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Recommended Book: The Complete Book of Data Anonymization

I was getting started to search for information about data anonymization and preparing to took a time to do “yet another internet search” for information sources; until I happened to find this book. I was positively surprised that it did … Continue reading

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Cloud Security Spotlight Report (survey)

Yet another survey results are available in the “2016 Cloud Security Spotlight Report” and is interesting reading. slides webinar Example Applications Q: Which of the following cloud applications are deployed or will be deployed in your organization? Example Authentication Q: … Continue reading

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Reference sources for privacy laws

There are at least 3 freely available books that provide information about privacy laws in different countries. These are good references in pdf format. Baker & McKenzie’s Global Privacy Handbook (800p) (online version) see also related online tool Global Privacy … Continue reading

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