Top Five Financial Sector Security Threats
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
With the threat of aftershocks in the US Stock market, continued bank closings and takeovers by the FDIC, serious consideration needs to be given to changing the current reporting, auditing and oversight regulations, and the public needs to pressure elected officials into action before our entire country is taken off financial life support.
He’s Not After Your Heart, Just Your Data
By Linda McGlasson, Managing Editor at BankInfoSecurity
Lexis-Nexis Breach Linked to Crime Family: One of the “old school” tactics that the organized crime figures use is going to the local watering holes and seducing young girls and finding out where they work. The mob’s tactic of dating new employees who work at companies that have access to customer data leads to Litan’s warning, “He’s not after your heart; he’s after your data.”
WHO Declares H1N1 Pandemic - Now What?
By Bill Brenner, Senior Editor, CSO
On the physical side, private entities should be hammering out a game plan for who would do what and where if the government decided to restrict our movements to contain an outbreak, says Kevin Nixon, an emergency planning expert who has testified before Congress and served on infrastructure security boards and committees including the Disaster Recovery Workgroup for the Office of Homeland Security, and the Federal Trade Commission.
Guide to Global Leadership “Must Reads”
By Kevin M. Nixon - ISR Security Editor, MSA, CISSP®, CISM®, CGEIT®
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
The Cyberspace Power Struggle Has Begun
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
I served on the Executive Board of Directors for the Internet Security Alliance (2001 - 2004) and supported the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. I continue to make the rounds on Capitol Hill meeting with US Senators and Representatives and their Congressional Staffs as a subject matter expert on all types of IT Security, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and GRC issues to provide our elected officials with a real worldview into the impact their legislative actions can have, both positive and negative.
Speculation and Rumors on the Cyber Czar
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
Just as I had noticed the mysterious change in Melissa Hathaway’s title on the White House Blog, at the moment that the President was speaking, I also noticed something very interesting: Why would Raytheon remove Rear Admiral Williamson’s distinguished service Bio from the corporate website?
Is She America’s New Cybersecurity Tsarina?
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
Information Security Resources staff had received an advance copy of the official White House Press Release (05/29/2009) and was all ears today during President Obama’s East Room remarks on the highly anticipated and long awaited release of the “Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure”.
US Cyber Security Report Due May 29th
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
The President will release the 60-Day Cyber Space policy review report at the Whitehouse on Friday, May 29, 2009. The administration recognizes the very serious threats Public & Private sector Networks face from cyber-crime and cyber-attack. Recognizing these threats the President has elevated cybersecurity to a major administration priority by undertaking an early comprehensive interagency review. The administration is also committed to establishing the proper structure within the government to insure that cybersecurity issues continue to receive top-level attention and enhanced coordination. The report is an important first step toward securing the nation’s cyber-infrastructure.
Wozniak, et al Discuss Ripcord VoIP Security
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
I recently had the opportunity to talk to some of best known innovators of our time, including Steve Wozniak, John McAfee, Alex Fielding, Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas and Marc Hodosh. They discuss the fatal flaw in VoIP which create the ability to perform warrantless wiretaps and what they have done to lead the industry toward more trusted and secure Cyberspace.
Interviews with Wozniak, McAfee, more…
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
I recently had the opportunity to talk to some of best known innovators of our time, including Steve Wozniak, John McAfee, Alex Fielding, Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas and Marc Hodosh. They discuss the fatal flaw in VoIP which create the ability to perform warrantless wiretaps and what they have done to lead the industry toward more trusted and secure Cyberspace.
