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         <title><![CDATA[Security Breach: the human factor]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, it was reported that one of our local school districts was the victim of a security breach. This breach resulted in wire transfers totaling almost $3 million from their bank accounts to various foreign banks; reportedly 20% of the school's annual budget. While the school district has recovered most of the funds, and is working with the FBI and the State Police to recover the rest, this incident brings home the pressing need for Information Security in today's environment....<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Defensive Depths]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[With the new year, it's time to get back to basics and review some key concepts in the security field. One term we often bandy about is "defense in depth" as a means to secure your information and it has nothing to do with deep sea warfare.
The term is taken from military parlance and can be traced back to&#160;ancient times as a way to increase the survival of whatever it is you're protecting. By placing your king, or gold, or big rock, or sensitive information within multiple layers of...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Budgeting for Disaster]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As the year winds to a close, thoughts are turning to the coming holidays: turkey, pies, snow shoveling, and perhaps a new budget. So how exactly does one plan for the unexpected, or budget for disasters?
By definition disasters are very bad: bad enough that we should be insured against them. Assuming that we are insured against most disasters, we're going to downgrade this discussion to mere emergencies. Specifically, we'll be focusing on those nasty little incidents that fall into that gray...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Virtual security in a real world]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Virtualization has become a force to be reckoned with for organizations of all sizes and shapes. The flexibility and consolidation options available in virtualized environments give this technology an unusual distinction: it appeals to both the engineers and the accountants. But as with any new technology, virtualization does bring new security considerations.
Virtualization allows a "host computer" to run multiple "virtual computers" as applications, with all of them sharing the same physical...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Avoiding the Storm Clouds]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As cloud computing becomes more commonplace and vital to our operations, it's imperative to keep in mind the security implications of running your business from “the cloud". Moving expensive and hard to maintain programs to the cloud&#160;can be an attractive&#160; alternative to large one time investments in hardware and software. However, we need to be very aware of how this move affects our information's security. Specifically, we will be focusing on our information's availability in the...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lock up your servers!]]></title>
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One aspect often overlooked when securing our information is physical security. The goal of physical security is to control who can walk up to the information and touch it. The idea is to prevent unwanted information disclosure, loss, or corruption, the same as when securing the information across the network or from the internet. The difference is that physical security deals with the “real world".
For most of us, this doesn't mean training your Chihuahua as an attack dog or outfitting your...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Untethered fun in the sun...]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As summer approaches, the dream of working while sitting on the beach comes to the fore. While I doubt many of us will be that lucky, the technology to enable this has been with us for some time and most of us use it every day: WiFi.
WiFi (or Wireless Fidelity) is any of the widely deployed wireless networking protocols that operate in the frequencies unregulated by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), specifically 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz. These protocols are technically referred to as the...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Social Insecurity]]></title>
         <link>http://www.cert-tech.com/news/social-insecurity/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Every day, our communications are becoming more interconnected. Whether it's receiving work and home email on your phone, updating your Linkedin status at work, or accessing work files from home, the line between home life and work life is more blurred than ever. While all of this interconnection can make our lives easier, we must be aware of where sensitive data is being accessed and stored, and the information security implications. 
As an employer, the first step in preventing any issues...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Boom! April fools!? ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As the warm weather begins to set in, something besides April showers may be approaching. A malicious program called Conficker (a.k.a. Worm_DownAD.AD, Trojan.Win32.Pakes.lxf, W32.Downadup) has been propagating throughout the internet and making headlines. This malware (malicious software) has garnered so much attention because of it's level sophistication, it's install base, and it's unknown nature.
Conficker was first discovered in the wild (on the internet) back in October of 2008, and...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Internet pain reliever…]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[One of the primary goals of Information Security is to maintain the availability of information, and this month we will be discussing the availability of your internet connection. With lower costs and increased throughput, the internet is more of a vital business tool than ever. So just how painful is it when your internet connection is down? 
If


    Your phones connect through your internet connection or an online PBX
    Your clients and customers order or contact you through a server on...<br />
The Certifiable Technologist...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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