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Yearly Archives: 2012

New Video Outlines Need for Security Solutions to Keep Up with Internet Usage

The CEO of a leading non-profit cybersecurity organization speaks out about the challenges associated with determining malware criminality in the newest episode of “Inside Network Security.” This expert was eager to participate in Norman’s video series, but asked for anonymity, to ensure hacktivists would be unable to discover and threaten … Read More

Keep Your Children Entertained Online this Holiday Season

It’s great to have the family together for the holidays, but sometimes it can all get a bit too much. Cooking the turkey, wrapping a thousand presents and hiding the whiskey from your uncle can all be a bit stressful, and that’s without the difficulties that children on school holidays … Read More

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Security Training Should Start at the University Level

If universities fail to include cyber security in the control system curriculum, how can we ensure full protection of critical infrastructure? In the tenth episode of our cyber security awareness video series, “Inside Network Security: Cybercrime, Malware and Today’s Emerging Threats,” returning guest Joe Weiss expresses concern about the minimal … Read More

Attention, Senior Management: Five Steps to Securing Critical Infrastructure

In the ninth episode of our video series, “Inside Network Security,” Managing Partner of Applied Control Solutions, Joe Weiss, shares five tips for senior management to protect industrial control systems against today’s most advanced malware threats. In the full episode, Weiss offers details each recommended action, but here are some … Read More

Take a Page from Facebook’s Book: How to Teach Cyber Security to Employees

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How better to evaluate your staff’s cyber security prowess than to attack them yourself? That’s just what Facebook did during its second annual “Hacktober”—a month-long “malware” ambush on its own employees in honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month in October. And a full month’s results show the campaign worked! … Read More

Mind the Gap: Creating Common Incentives for Operations and Control System Teams

As the working world returns from the Thanksgiving holiday, Joe Weiss presents us with another control system issue to consider. In episode eight of our cyber security awareness video series, Weiss outlines the disconnect between how senior managers incentivize their operations and control system teams. The title of this installment, … Read More

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This Cyber Monday, Beware of Cyber Criminals

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Black hat search engine optimization (SEO) attacks will be rampant this week leading up to Cyber Monday, so beware! As business productivity slows for the Thanksgiving holiday, employees will begin scoping out the best Cyber Monday deals. And just after families polish off their turkey, ambitious shoppers will excuse themselves … Read More

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We’re Not Even at the Table – Joe Weiss Explores the Federal Government’s Role in Cyber Security Policy

In the seventh episode of Norman’s cyber security video series, Joe Weiss joins me again to discuss the absence of industrial control security experts from legislative and regulatory conversations. In “We’re Not Even at the Table,” Weiss opens the conversation by listing just a few of the many government agencies … Read More

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Cyberattack against Israeli and Palestinian targets for a year

Recently, media reported of a targeted attack against the Israeli government, in the form of emails purporting to come from IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, where the email contained a malicious attachment. We located this file. It was signed with a fake digital certificate. In the following investigation we … Read More

It All Changed in One Day: How 9/11 Transformed Cyber Security Responsibility

Cyber Security Awareness Month may be officially over, but not at Norman. We’ve extended our weekly thought leadership video series into November, since the experts we’ve interviewed have so much more to share. I hope you continue to find the commentary from these experts valuable. Joe Weiss, managing partner of Applied Control Solutions, joins … Read More

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