// 17 October 2011 (#NCSAM – National Cyber Security Awareness Month) Encryption: To encrypt or not encrypt, that is the question (a hat tip to the Bard of Avon). In this day and age of digital data thefts, careless loss of hardware and infusion of crimeware / malware, in my opinion it pays to encrypt. ...
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Many medical devices have telemetry requirements, which require patient data to be both present within the device’s resident memory and to be transmitted from the device to a monitoring or record-preservation device (hard drive or tape). During transmission, are the content or command/control sequences protected? Do they need to be? Unfortunately, yes. The data must be protected not only from a PHI-data disclosure perspective, but also from data corruption perspective.
The following appeared in the Canadian online magazine Security Matters: Location Based Services: Do you know where your data is? Do you know where your data is? By Christopher Burgess Everywhere you look, retailers and other entities are offering to collect your data using one of the many location-based services available to collate your whereabouts ...
In October, I had the pleasure of being the guest on Talk2Cisco and to discuss social media and cyber security. Here is the write-up and recap of the event: Talk2Cisco . I took a moment and watched the video, and thought, this is something beneficial to small, medium and large businesses. I also think the ...
Information Security, Safety & SecurityBy Christopher Burgess Do you work for an enterprise or a small-to-medium-size business? If so, odds are you have an information technology department supporting you. If you work for yourself, you may leverage the knowledge of others in cobbling together an information technology infrastructure to support your daily work. I work for a conglomerate and ...
Information Security, Safety & SecurityBy Christopher Burgess When you access your email each day, do you do so at a distance of 15 paces because you’re just not sure what might jump out of that inbox? You can just about anticipate an email detailing how another user has caused a “blip” that will stretch your capabilities to protect both ...
Information Security, News, Safety & SecurityThe guide is a professional guide, with exemplars which can be used in a sandbox, or to assist you in noodling through specific infrastructure monitoring issues – such as “tuning” so the incident logs tell you the story, and don’t drown you in event data. This book should be in every incident responset team’s professional library.
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