Category Archives: Security
Keep Yourself Safe Online, Book from Microsoft
Microsoft has published a good book called Own Your Space, Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online The book is aimed for teens, but is good material for anyone. Especially if you are thinking of Security Awareness Training.
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Test: portable VirtualBox with xubuntu linux
VirtualBox is well known tool for running guest OS inside host OS. A portable version is called Portable-VirtualBox, and it can be runned without installation (but requires admin rights). From virtualbox site: VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization … Continue reading
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Katana, collection of portable security tools and bootable distributions
Katana is a collection of security tools on USB stick. Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together many of today’s best security distributions and portable applications to run off a single Flash Drive. There are 2 ways … Continue reading
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WinTaylor, forensics tools on USB stick
WinTaylor is a collection of tools for analyzing or troubleshoothing a PC. WinTaylor itself is a GUI launchboard for several other tools. Positive: No installation needed, just execute from USB In overall, good collection (nirsoft, sysinternals etc.) Source code available … Continue reading
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True Cost of Compliance, by Ponemon & Tripwire
Ponemon Institute has created a report, commissioned by Tripwire, about the cost of compliance. This is good material to look for any security manager. Ponemon Institute and Tripwire Inc. conducted The True Cost of Compliance research to determine the full … Continue reading
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McAfee’s Risk and Compliance Outlook Report
Report produced by McAfee is interesting reading for having a view on risk and compliance challenges within companies. McAfee retained Evalueserve to conduct an independent assessment of the factors organizations that use risk and compliance products face in 2012. This … Continue reading
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Verizon’s Payment Card Industry Compliance Report
Verizon’s Payment Card Industry Compliance Report 2011 is available. It is good material to look if one wishes to have a view on PCI status. This report analyzes findings from actual Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) assessments … Continue reading
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