October 29, 2012 - No Comments
This week, Norman’s cyber security awareness video series features a second interview with Jessie Knight, Chairman and CEO of San Diego Gas & Electric. I was lucky enough to sit down with Knight again to discuss the inevitability of cybercrime attempts and the importance of guarding against them. The full … Read More
October 19, 2012 - No Comments
As Cyber Security Awareness Month continues, Norman presents the third episode of the video series, “Insight Network Security: Cybercrime, Malware and Today’s Emerging Threats.” Featuring Chairman and CEO of San Diego Gas & Electric Jessie Knight, this week’s episode explores new challenges of securing the utility industry. The segment, “It’s … Read More
October 3, 2012 - 1 Comment
To recognize October as Cyber Security Month as well as increase awareness and offer concrete solutions to today’s cyber security issues, Norman is launching a video series starting today. The series will include interviews with several senior corporate and utility executives and many of the nation’s leading cyber security experts. … Read More
August 30, 2012 - No Comments
The noise about the Saudi Aramco hacking incident continues. Some interesting pastebin postings and other sources claim that the hackers in this case may have used an insider or that rogue contractor to launch or support their attack. What’s also seems unclear is whether such a person worked for a … Read More
May 7, 2012 - No Comments
I’m always amazed at how easy it can be to obtain company information. SearchSecurity has an excellent series to help us better understand hacker attack techniques and tactics. Serious hackers typically perform extensive reconnaissance prior to hacking into a network. Often, employees will make this work much easier than it … Read More
May 2, 2012 - 1 Comment
As hard as it is to believe, the three-year old Conficker worm, long patched, is still causing significant security problems in many businesses, according to Microsoft’s recently released bi-annual Security Intelligence Report. Conficker infections have increased 225 percent each quarter since its discovery in late 2008. Researchers report that the … Read More
March 23, 2012 - No Comments
Technology advances in storage and computing models (e.g. cloud) have made it possible for modern companies to save massive amounts of data about their customers and partners. These increasingly large stores of information can provide insights that improve marketing efforts, help refine product offerings or even enable completely new service/product … Read More
February 22, 2012 - 1 Comment
The technicians at a local chemical manufacturing plant have discovered that a virus has disabled their temperature monitoring controls. Although they are unsure of when the virus compromised the systems, they do know several vats are overheating. Alarms are signaling that an immediate evacuation is required. The warning isn’t limited … Read More
February 20, 2012 - No Comments
Personal cloud services are popping up like spring weeds. Services like DropBox, Box.net, iCloud, Amazon Cloud Drive and soon Windows 8 (via SkyDrive) entice users with promises of free storage and accessibility from everywhere on every device, and utilization of these services is continuing to expand. According to Forrester, personal … Read More
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