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Introduction to the NSA Infosec Assessment Methodology (IAM)
On May 22, 1998 President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PPD 63). This directive outlined the civilian and governmental responsibility of protecting the US Critical Infrastructure and established the ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on April 2, 2011Will Your Network Pass a Security Audit?
It is a well-known fact that in the Internet-connected world network perimeter vulnerabilities do exist that allow unauthorized individuals access to networks and provide the ability to disrupt business continuance. ...
Written by: Michael Bruck and added on June 22, 2011Convergence of Logical and Physical Security
This paper will demonstrate that the convergence of logical and physical security brings significant benefits, specifically identifying areas where the two can interconnect to the greatest positive effect, and also ...
Written by: Yahya Mehdizadeh and added on May 1, 2011Business Continuity Planning In Difficult Economic Times
Business continuity planning on an enterprise-wide level is an involved and costly process. Certainly, each company would do well to have some kind of comprehensive plan to handle crises. However, ...
Written by: Suzanne Widup and added on April 22, 2011Disaster Recovery Survivability Security
Since September 11, 2001, Disaster Recovery has become one of the hottest topics in businesses and governments. Disasters as defined in, "So-Called "Small Disasters" Can Equal Big Trouble (Disaster Recovery ...
Written by: Linda E. Ridgway and added on Feb. 24, 2011Is the CISSP Becoming Watered Down?
The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) has quickly become one of the most talked about certifications in the IT industry. Some may say it's approaching the popularity of Cisco's ...
Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Feb. 12, 2011Options for Secure Personal Password Management
Most consumers will, against the advice of security experts, use weak passwords, reuse one or two passwords for everything, write their passwords down, or all of the above, simply in ...
Written by: Hugh T. Ranalli and added on June 12, 2011The Need for Information Security in Today's Economy
The advancement of technology, the Internet, and information sharing has had both positive and negative impacts. One of the negative impacts was the large increase in new "information" threats. The ...
Written by: Jeff Tarte and added on April 26, 2011The Internet in the Palm of Your Hand
3G is positioned to radically transform the Internet paradigm from a static, PC-centric model into a mobile Internet. Imagine commuting home from work on a train while conducting a broadband ...
Document added on Jan. 9, 2011Component Security Design Considerations for J2EE and .Net An Architectural View Part 3
we explored security design considerations for Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft's .Net platform for enterprise components. In this part we will examine which differentiators are available for ...
Document added on June 20, 2011