There are several different antivirus programs on the market. One of the free alternatives is Avira . One can configure real-time scan mode (reading/writing), update frequency etc.
Plus:
The scan mode settings might slow down some computers; one need to find a “balance between security and cost”.
ISC2 is publishing yearly “Global Information Security Workforce Study” in co-operation with Frost & Sullivan. The 2013 revision is available here. It provides several graphics, and therefore it is easy to browse through the material.
There is also a short video about the 2013.
Software Engineering Institute has published the latest revision of the “Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats“. It is good reading for any security manager, and provides 19 practises that each organization should implement.
Malicious insider is defined as a current or former employee, contractor, or business partner who meets the following criteria:
• has or had authorized access to an organization’s network, system, or data
• has intentionally exceeded or intentionally used that access in a manner that negatively affected the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the organization’s information or information systems
It focuses on IP (intellectual property) theft, IT sabotage, and fraud.
It is based on the database of more than 700 insider threat cases.
Plus
Surveillance, cybersecurity… These are Hot topics today.
As a information security professional, it is good to know that there are several reports available. Please use your own judgement and conclusions when reading these reports. What this is about? What it means? What are the threats, risks? Do I need to do something?
Report
Mandiant has published this year an intelligent report called “APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units” and an appendix. Another page with links to youtube videos.
From the excutive summary “Since 2004, Mandiant has investigated computer security breaches at hundreds of organizations around the world. The majority of these security breaches are attributed to advanced threat actors referred to as the “Advanced Persistent Threat” (APT).”
Time Management matrix is a good tool to focus on effectiveness. Sometimes the reference is made to Eisenhower, and sometimes to Stephen Covey.
| Time Management |
Urgent |
Not Urgent |
|
Important |
Do first |
Schedule |
|
Not Important |
Delegate |
Don’t do |
Good videos explaining the matrix
Pages explaining how to use it
Alternative view, quadrant 4 as inbox
| Classifying Tasks |
Urgent |
Not Urgent |
|
Important |
Crisis |
Planning |
|
Not Important |
Reactive |
Inbox |
Other links
What is Personal Mission Statement?
I like the following definition:
| Mission Statement is a sentence or short paragraph which is written by a person and reflects their objectives, identity, values and principle aims. | Vision Statements is a sentence or short paragraph providing a broad, aspirational image of the future. |
| A Mission is defined as ‘Purpose, reason for being’. Defined simply “Who we are and what we do”. | A vision is defined as ‘An Image of the future we seek to create’. |
There are several other definitions:
Guides
The approaches to Personal Mission Statement varies a little. Here below is a list of guide alternatives. There is no shortcut. The guides provides the tools, not the answers since there are no right or wrong answers…
Value lists
Examples
PDFill PDF Tools is a good alternative for various operations on pdf files. It contains more features than PDFsam which I have listed earlier.
Especially it can encrypt/decrypt, add text or image watermarks etc. (However, licensing is different than in PDFsam).
The screenshot below is from Text watermark. For the image watermark, and can also define location.
Note: The installation includes also the PDF Editor, which is not free.
Note: The screenshots above are from Beta version (May 17 , 2013).
