Category Archives: ICT
Recommended Book: Cybersecurity for executives
A new book from 2014 “Cybersecurity for Executives: A Practical Guide” is a great book, and definitely worth for reading for persons working on the security management, or as the title says, for executives. Title: Cybersecurity for executives Author : … Continue reading
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Guidelines for “Assessing Cyber Security Export Risks”, by TechUK
TechUK has published document “Assessing Cyber Security Export Risks“, which is great effort addressing the business ethics aspects. Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) has been involved as well. The coverage is good, content is straight to the point, … Continue reading
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STIX, Structured Threat Information eXpression, by Mitre
Structured Threat Information eXpression STIX is a collaborative community-driven effort to define and develop a standardized language to represent structured cyber threat information. STIX Use Cases STIX sample This is from the training material. From samples page: STIX Tree Viewer … Continue reading
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Indicators of Compromise, OpenIOC and CyBOX
Indicator of compromise IOC IOC in computer forensics is an artifact observed on a network or in operating system that with high confidence indicates a computer intrusion. Typical IOCs are virus signatures and IP addresses, MD5 hashes of malware files … Continue reading
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Data Breach reports, by ITRC
Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has been tracking security breaches since 2005, looking for patterns, new trends and any information that may better help us to educate consumers and businesses on the need for understanding the value of protecting personal … Continue reading
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Cyber essentials
Cyber Essentials scheme is one of the actions under the UK Government policy “Keeping the UK safe in cyber space“. The Cyber Essentials scheme has been developed by Government and industry to fulfil two functions. It provides a clear statement … Continue reading
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Data Protection Laws of the World, by DLA Piper
DLA Piper has published a valuable information source on data protection laws. The handbook is available online (see figure below), or directly as downloadable pdf (almost 400 pages). Other links blog article “Privacy and Data Protection by Country”
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