Category Archives: Security Management
POS malware, some links to material
Increasing number of attacks has been taken against Point of Sales devices and systems. There are several good overviews and materials on this topic, and those are revealing details of the technics used in these targeted attacks. Main sources PoS … Continue reading
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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
Posted in ICT Regulation, Privacy, Security Management, Security Training, Awareness and Reports
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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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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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Global State of Information Security Survey, by PwC
Global State of Information Security Survey by PwC is interesting reading. It contains several questions and answers from various fields of industry. Definitely worth to have a look.
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Survey, by PwC
Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International has published the 2013 results for “Corruption Perceptions Index“. Based on expert opinion, the index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide, scoring them from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
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