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Ethical Hacker Roundup – ISO 27001 Events Vs. Incidents

These ISO 27001 links are part of a weekly series, Ethical Hacker Roundup, featuring the information security and cyber security related articles that we’ve read over and thought worth sharing from the past week.

These articles have were emailed to us, shared on Twitter @pivotpointsec, Google Plus and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

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Being Your Own Cyber Security Police

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Pivot Point Security Joins Shared Assessments Program

Pivot Point Security Joins Shared Assessments Program

Hamilton, NJ (PRWEB) April 03, 2012

shared-assessmentsPivot Point Security, a leading Information Security Assurance firm, announces that it has recently joined the Shared Assessments Program as an assessment firm member.

The Shared Assessments Program was created by leading financial institutions, accounting firms, and key service providers to inject standardization, consistency, speed, efficiency and cost savings into the vendor risk assessment process.

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Anomaly Detection & Proactively Blocking Malware Sources

Anomaly Detection & Proactively Blocking Malware Sources

Not surprisingly shortly after Microsoft’s announcement of a significant RDP flaw our OSCAR clients started noting significant probing activity on port 3389 (example below).  The positive for this particular customer was the issue is well contained as the Hourly and Daily (below) Anomaly Detection Reports noted the increased traffic was all rejected.

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Interestingly, virtually all of the traffic was originating from the ...

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Updated Best Practices Guide for Firing a Network Security Administrator

Updated Best Practices Guide for Firing a Network Security Administrator

(PRWEB) March 29, 2012

firing-network-adminInformation Security Assurance firm, Pivot Point Security, has updated its document, Best Practices for Firing A Network Security Administrator. The guide outlines good practices for dealing with the dismissal or resignation of a key IT / IS employee, to reduce these risks. (e.g., theft of confidential data)

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Ethical Hacker Roundup – Operation, Financial Edition

Ethical Hacker Roundup – Operation, Financial Edition

These Financial IT Security links are part of a weekly series, Ethical Hacker Roundup, featuring the information security and cyber security related articles that we’ve read over and thought worth sharing from the past week.

These articles have were emailed to us, shared on Twitter @pivotpointsec, Google Plus and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

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ZeuS Malware – Off With ...

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