Category Archives: Security
ISO 27000 serie of standards for Information Security
ISO 27000 serie is THE set of standard for Information Security, a must to have and look for people working in the area. Good overviews and lists are available wikipedia ISO 27000 Series * ISO/IEC 27000 — Information security management … Continue reading
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Cloud Security Alliance
If one wish to understand better security related issues in Cloud Computing, it is worth to have a look on the work done by Cloud Security Alliance. Their guidance document is available from their Guidance page. They also have a … Continue reading
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ITU-T Study Group 17
ITU-T Study Group 17 works on security related issues. In the technical Flyer, the building block are listed as Security Architecture and Frameworks Telecommunication Security Protocols Security in Frame Relay Security Techniques Directory Services and Authentication Network Management Security Systems … Continue reading
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Wireshark, Tool for analyzing network traffic
Wireshark is great tool, a must have, for analyzing the network traffic. An example capture is shown below from an http connection. It has features like “Flow graph” (below), and many many other features, like reading other capture formats as … Continue reading
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Truecrypt, Tool for accessing and keeping your files in secured storage
Truecrypt is a tool which can create a virtual encrypted disk of any size. In Windows, a truecrypt file (*.tc) looks like a normal data file. But in fact, it is encrypted container file and can be mounted as a … Continue reading
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KeePass, Tool for securing and storing your passwords
KeePass is great tool to store your password in encrypted format in a single file. Encrypted file provides protection against accidental loss of your USB drive when travelling. KeePass has a portable version available. Screenshots are available. Classic Edition is … Continue reading
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A simple way to protect email attachments
7-zip can be used to create encrypted archives (see blog). If exe files are allowed in the email, then 7-zip can create self-extracting achive.