ENISA issues position paper on certification
ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency just issued a paper on security certification: Information Security Certifications - A Primer: Products, people, processes. This whitepaper...
View ArticleTheory of social closure predicts: Profession will close ranks
Max Weber, the renowned sociologists, described social closure as the tendency of groups to restrict entry to outsiders in order to maximize their own benefit. I was reminded of this when I read an...
View ArticleIt will remain hard to find good IT Security skills
It was in the news (and on Network World): CompTIA recently published a survey on the security skills of IT workers. In an impressive list of numbers we learn that the gap between demand and supply is...
View ArticleWhy passwords are easy to guess
Kristian Köhntopp writes in his blog (original text in German, quoted and translated with permission): (Translation begins) Fun Passwords Some entertaining fun password statistics from a client. Using...
View ArticleSome security tools carry their own risks
It sounds like a tempting idea: Put security tools online so everybody can use them without installing software. Such as Virus Checking for documents (1, 2) or checking the quality of passwords (1, 2)....
View ArticleIT Security people are networking-crazy
I recently got bitten by the networking virus. By now, the infection is in full swing. I am a member of four real-world associations, including, amongst others, (ISC)² and ISACA. Of course these offer...
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