Weekly Rewind – Top Industry News, Infosec Schools, 20 CSCs, Cybersec Awareness, & More

October 8, 2011
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Weekly Rewind – Top Industry News, Infosec Schools, 20 CSCs, Cybersec Awareness, & More

Here’s another edition of the Weekly Rewind, where we post out a quick summary of industry articles you seemed to like as well as our stories from the past week. If you missed anything or happened to be offline, we hope you find this post useful as a reference. Industry Articles Steve Jobs: How...
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Top Infosec Schools in the Metro DC Area

October 7, 2011
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Top Infosec Schools in the Metro DC Area

How do you get started in an information security career? This is a question we get asked a lot. There are several ways … but if you’re looking to take a more formal approach, attending a school accredited as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) is a great place to start. Run by...
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Top 3 NoVA Infosec Blog Posts of the Week

October 7, 2011
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Top 3 NoVA Infosec Blog Posts of the Week

This week we lost one of the greatest visionaries that our generation will ever see, Rest in Peace Steve Job….Technological innovation will never be the same!! It’s that time of the week again: the time where we take a look at what local security bloggers have been up to. You can take a look at...
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Happy National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

October 5, 2011
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Happy National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Wow, can’t believe it’s been a year already… It just seemed like yesterday we were basking in the improved cybersecurity awareness of those around us. Unfortunately, people seemed to fall back into their old routines rather quickly and we had one of the worst years on record. There was the almost daily barrage of...
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Balancing the 20 Critical Security Controls

October 4, 2011
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Balancing the 20 Critical Security Controls

Ben “@falconsview” Tomhave put out a nice post yesterday regarding the SANS 20 Critical Security Controls (CSC). In it he stressed how the they are 1) not actually controls, 2) not scalable, and 3) only designed to sell a product. I don’t know enough to comment on point 1. Point 2 seems right on...
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Where You Want to Be This Week for 2011-10-03

October 3, 2011
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Where You Want to Be This Week for 2011-10-03

Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in our Calendar and in this post, contact us...
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Choose Your Weapon: MAC vs DAC

September 29, 2011
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Choose Your Weapon: MAC vs DAC

I don’t see many articles discuss the topics of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and Discretionary Access Control (DAC) that often but InfosecIsland.com published two nice example-based posts earlier this week. Similar to a post last year from ElectricFork on the origins of the CIA triad, these concepts are fairly fundamental and so I thought...
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