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Getting Certified (Part II): Security Certs
Well what about security certifications? There are useful guides to certifications at about.com and dmiessler.com. Arguably, the better internationally known certifications listed are CISSP and SCNP. One recent addition into this arena is the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). Their course outline provides a very good background on what you should know as a security tester. [...]
Getting Certified (Part I): General Thoughts
Like with other fields in the computer industry, the big question is do you want/need to get certified?
Experience counts for a lot and one argument is, the material covered by the certification quickly becomes irrelevant and you have to keep shelling out money to keep up with the accreditation. For example, I have a Sun [...]
Dos and Don’ts of Firewalling
Firewalls are usually your first line of defence and often in an n-tier environment, your second and third line too. As someone told me, you are only as secure as your weakest link. And as Anne Robinson would tell you, humans are the weakest link. Firewalls need policies in place created by you’ve guessed it [...]
Top 10 Security stories
Something that should have posted at the end of last year, it’s the top 10 security stories from 2007, well according to silicon anyways…
1. Missing: 25 million child benefit records
2. Q&A: Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane
3. Top 10 weird data disasters
4. Police: There’s no piggybacking crackdown
5. ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
6. [...]
Top 10 Weird Disasters
The weirdest data disasters… It’s a bit like when I was in school and my cat ate my homework… really it did happen! This is courtesy of silicon
10. All in a spin: A customer who told engineers she had ‘washed away all her data’ after putting a USB stick through a cycle in her washing [...]
