How many times have you wanted to see how something worked, or it looked really cool, so you stood up an instance on your network? You are trying out Jenkins, or you stood up a new Tomcat server for some internal testing. Do you practice good security procedures on these systems? Do you set strong passwords? Do you apply updates? These devices or applications are often overlooked by the person that stood them up, and probably unknown to the security team. It may seem as though these systems … [Read more...] about Tips for Securing Test Servers/Devices on a Network
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The FTC’s “Start with Security: A Guide for Business” Document
The FTC recently released a document to help companies learn from others' security mistakes. The document titled Start with Security: A Guide for Business. It provides ten (10) different security lessons learned by other companies, included below: Start with security. Control access to data sensibly. Require secure passwords and authentication. Store sensitive personal information securely and protect it during transmission. Segment your network and monitor who's trying to get in and … [Read more...] about The FTC’s “Start with Security: A Guide for Business” Document
The Importance of Baselines
To understand what is abnormal, we must first understand what is normal. All too often we have overlooked the basic first step of understanding and recording our baselines. Whether it is for network traffic, data input, or binary sizes it is imperative we understand what is normal. Once we have an understanding of what normal is it becomes easier to start identifying abnormalities that can be of concern. Related podcast: Ep. 24: The Importance of Baselines Take a moment to think about … [Read more...] about The Importance of Baselines