Bum-A-Post Wednesday: What is internet security?
Internet security has always been at top concern for IT industry. Because, nowadays a large number of monetary transactions are taking place using the online mechanism. Computer users prefer using online banking service instead of waiting in long queues for their turn. Some enjoy shopping from their home, and others like to invest in share’s using the online trading option.
Each of this service requires important credentials of users, which are known only to the user. The online transaction is carried forward after the server authenticates the entered credentials with the stored credentials in the server. When the authentication process is successful, the user then can start the transaction process. Read more
Should have been posted yesterday | Let’s Read the Geek Mail
I’ve been playing some catch-up all morning. Yesterday had a hectic day working on a couple of client requirements. Spent most of the morning today trying to figure out how to install a CAPTCHA feature in one of my sites. If I don’t get sidetracked or I don’t forget, I’ll talk about this very important feature especially if you have a site that allows for registration and other stuff.
Yesterday, I wanted to introduce another section of the site that I plan to do every Thursday, I call it “Geek Mail”. I subscribe to a whole bunch of mailing lists that has something to do with Technology, Security and a whole bunch of other stuff that is essentially the overall theme of this blog. Sometimes I get to read some of them, but most of the time they languish in my mailbox as “clutter”.
So I figured, I post some of them here (at least the intro and the link to the actual article, don’t wanna get dinged on some weird copyright infringement thingamajig)… I see this as having three benefits: (1) it’ll force me to read more, since I’ll try not to post anything that don’t make any sense to me; (2) hopefully some of you will get some valuable nuggets out of these articles; (3) If the links don’t get outdated, it’ll help create my own personal knowledgebase just in case I am researching something, which you can use as well.
A quick disclaimer: Some of the links will require you to subscribe to their newsletter or whatever else they are offering. Please read and use your common sense. I have nothing to do with these people, I am much of a browser of their sites as you are and I am not getting paid on any of this stuff (If ever I am paid for anything I write – you will know). It is for your information and if you find value on the info, it is your job and your responsibility to take the necessary steps to get and properly use the info.
So without further ado, Let’s Read Geek Mail: Read more
Social Media: Separating the Personal from the Professional (Part 1)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or not have had access to the Internet or living a life of a hermit or well you get the point, you would somehow or another would have had received an invite from a friend, family member, a classmate, a co-worker, an associate, an acquaintance or a complete stranger (hopefully, I covered everything) to join, follow, make friends with, connect with or link with him/her or check out his profile, photo, video or note in some greatest thing ever that happened in this thingamajig that they call the Internet.
Social Media has become a major phenomenon. It has spawned a whole new vocabulary of terms that will perhaps add several more pages into the Oxford (or Merriam-Webster’s) Dictionary. People are tweeting, Facebooking, tagging, liking, sharing, embedding and wall writing. Some are LIONs, some LIONs are also tweeting… And guess what, these Tweeting LIONs can even have their own channel… Imagine that…
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CISSP Note (Domain 1: Access Control) – Three Things to Consider
Three things to consider
- Threats – potential to cause harm
- Vulnerabilities – weakness that can be exploited
- Risk – potential for harm
Risk is the likelihood that something bad will happen that causes harm to an informational asset (or the loss of the asset). A vulnerability is a weakness that could be used to endanger or cause harm to an informational asset. A threat is anything (man made or act of nature) that has the potential to cause harm.
The likelihood that a threat will use a vulnerability to cause harm creates a risk. When a threat does use a vulnerability to inflict harm, it has an impact. In the context of information security, the impact is a loss of availability, integrity, and confidentiality, and possibly other losses (lost income, loss of life, loss of real property). It should be pointed out that it is not possible to identify all risks, nor is it possible to eliminate all risk. The remaining risk is called residual risk.
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