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Privacy Impact Assessment
For Good Information Sources for Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), please have a look at ico.org.uk’s PIA page and Guide Conducting privacy impact assessments code of practice. Steps Identify the need for a PIA Describe the information flows Identify the privacy … Continue reading
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Cloud Service Level Agreement Standardisation Guidelines, by C-SIG (europe)
Interesting document “Cloud SLA standardization guidelines” is available at the Digital Agenda for Europe site. The work has been done by the C-SIG (Cloud Select Industry Group) subgroup, and they are contributing this as input for the new standard ISO/IEC … Continue reading
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Standardisation Guidelines, by C-SIG (europe)
Cyber Security radar (dashboard) and other online threat level indicators
There are some online resources indicating the current threat level related to cyber security. Radar is explained here. Cyber Security Index by SecureWorks Threat Meter by VeriSign AlertLevel by CERT-EU “number of cases” Infocon as part of Dashboard by SANS … Continue reading
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State of the Internet Report by Akamai
Akamai is publishing State of Internet Report (quaterly) which is worth to have a look. The latest is report from Q1 2014.
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Tip, creating PDF file from pictures
Problem: How to create PDF file from a list of pictures in a folder Solution: Use IrfanView function “Create multipage PDF file” Solution Alternative: Use PDFill (was much slower) Step 1: Resize and Crop images as needed by using menu: … Continue reading
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Publicly available ISO standards: security & privacy related
It is good to know that some freely available ISO standards are related to security and privacy (Reference: Publicly Available Standards). For example ISO 27000 and ISO 29100 are freely available. Security Management ISO 27000 Information security management systems – … Continue reading
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Report on Cybersecurity Black Market, by RAND and Juniper
RAND has published an interesting report on the cybersecurity black market. This report “Markets for Cybercrime Tools and Stolen Data” was sponsored by Juniper . (direct link to pdf). This report is good reading for any security professional, worth to … Continue reading
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