It Security need to be address by today organizations. This should start from the top down but in most cases IT Security start from the bottom and in most cases never reach the top. The blog on IT Security are to help everyone better...
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It Security need to be address by today organizations. This should start from the top down but in most cases IT Security start from the bottom and in most cases never reach the top. The blog on IT Security are to help everyone better understand how knowledge of the subject. The bad guys are working hard to gain access to your network and/or computer, we need to work at keeping them out.
I love CCleaner . Not only does it clean privacy and junk files, but it also allows you to manage your start menu in a user-friendly environment. This software will free up disk space and speed up Windows. A must have! Read Full Story
I have been meaning to blog about Tor for a while now, but I keep pushing it off. I really wanted to write about it when I was getting into it with Ironkey a few months back. One of the things Ironkey offers, besides an encrypted USB stick, is a secure web browser for anonymous web browsing. Well, The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( www.EFF.org ) has developed a free tool to protect your anonymity on the internet called Tor, which stands for T he O nion R outer. Tor currently works on all... Read Full Story
This one kind of gave me a laugh. I may have taken it more seriously if I felt it would cost me some traffic, but I am not too worried about it. Mainly because I just about get zero traffic from this particular search engine anyway.. I am talking about Yahoo! I had an old Navy buddy shoot me an email. He told me that he did a search for Bauer-Power on Yahoo. Of course, Bauer-Power showed up as one of the top on the list. That was expected. What wasn't expected was the fact that Yahoo thinks... Read Full Story
With more people using the internet everyday, there has been a significant increase in the threats of online criminals attempting to steal personal information . When you use email, surf the net, and provide financial information to retailers, you have to make sure no one can steal your information. Fortunately, technological improvements in computer security and implementing safety precautions can drastically reduce the chances of having your information stolen.
The following tips are... Read Full Story
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is a group supervision method that uses optical character detection on images to examine the license plates on a vehicle. License plate recognition can be used to store the images that have been captured by the camera and the text of the number plate. Some of the systems can even store the photographic image of the driver of the vehicle. This technology is used in safety and traffic application worldwide. License plate recognition technology or... Read Full Story
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is supervision technology that was developed in 1976 in the UK and police usage started in 1979. ANPR is also called by various other names such as Automatic vehicle identification, Car Plate recognition, Number plate recognition and License plate recognition system. The technology uses optical character recognition software to scan images to read the number plates of the vehicles. The ANPR technology is constantly developing and evolving. Its main... Read Full Story
Recently, Brian Wolfe who heads the Security and Compliance practice at Laurus Technologies, commented in this article about the need for the health care sector to ready themselves for electronic health records (EHRs). In fact, some of the changes and dictates to move to EHRs are found in the recently approved HITECH Act . I agree with Mr. Wolfe that ISO 27001:2005 provides a great foundation for organizations to ready themselves for the neccessary changes and controls to process EHRs. I... Read Full Story
I've had many discussions with senior management regarding the need to protect the "Crown Jewels" of a company. This article, Ex-Goldman Programmer Out on Bail , illustrates a great example of one company's "Crown Jewels" being exposed. In this case, it would seem on the surface to be a fairly straight forward call, that this particular programming code would be highly sensitive and need the greatest protections available. However, in most cases, it's not so easy. Often, one difficulty... Read Full Story
This article from the Wall Street Journal highlights the dangers companies face regarding intellectual property theft. Editor's Note: A California company alleged that an Internet-filtering program being pushed by the Chinese government contains stolen portions of the company's software... Mr. Milburn said Solid Oak received an anonymous email Friday stating that Green Dam may contain parts of his company's code. He said engineers at the 15-person software maker, which is based in Santa... Read Full Story
Back when I used to work for Websense, there was a lady in the Marketing department (who shall remain nameless) that would go through laptops like you might go through underwear. She would go to traveling shows, and conferences with her crew and she would often times come back saying that her laptop was stolen, or lost and she needed a new one. We often joked that we needed to start monitoring her eBay account. In all seriousness though, what we really needed was something like Lo-Jack to... Read Full Story
