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The Highest Risk Ever….. Not!
I just received one of my daily news reports about Cyber Security and it said something to the effect of such and such a Research group has found out that Application Security holes are at highest numbers ever and … Continue reading
A Note I Wrote to Someone Who Once Worked for Me
I recently had the honor to help provide a strong reference for a person who worked for me as a Cyber Analyst. She got the Senior position she was going for but was just a little worried about what they should do … Continue reading
CIsO or ciSo?
In some big companies it does make sense to have a polished CISO who is responsible for working both the Boardroom and the IT Executive management group. In those cases a strong security focused Deputy CISO should be considered for … Continue reading
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Your Horse Was Analog
Your Horse Was Analog Kevin L. McLaughlin A speech I made to 350+ people at the Michigan joint Military Ball. Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. Like my tie? My wife didn’t – gave me a lot of grief before we left … Continue reading
Home Depot Breach 43M loss posting on LinkedIn
I just read an article on LinkedIn about the negative impact caused by the recent Home Depot breach. Here are my thoughts about how all the 2014 breaches should change some C level and Information Security paradigms. These could cause a major … Continue reading
The Insider Threat is Alive and Well – a summary taken directly from Raytheon’s How to Build an Insider Threat Program (2014) …
Aspects of human nature further complicate matters: Well-intended managers resist any notions of “their people” doing “bad things.” They screened them. They hired them. They work with them side-by-side and – if they’re good bosses – have developed a genuine interest … Continue reading
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Just a Random Thought After an Information Technology (IT) Meeting
It is not the job of IT operational support staff to eliminate 100% of failures across the corporate infrastructure. (cost would be too high) It is ITs job to manage failures so that they stay within the levels of operation … Continue reading
A day in the life of a senior Cyber Security Incident Responder
The day was proving to be an exciting one for team Havoc, the Company’s cyber Red Team, as the L2 report he had just read showed that 4 of the core company servers were vulnerable to a very common … Continue reading
What’s It Going to Take to Have Cyber Security?
Written by- Kevin L. and Kody T. McLaughlin If you are a Cyber Security professional do you get as mad as I do when you read and hear over and over again that Cyber Security professionals don’t have enough talent, … Continue reading
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The Cyber Security CIA explained via Calvin and Hobbes
Leave it to my son Kody, who is starting his Cyber Security career to come up with this novel way to explain the CIA triad for Cyber Security. In InfoSec terms, CIA refers to Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. To illustrate … Continue reading
