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Monthly Archive November, 2007

New trends, new threats

I’ve just read about Intel’s concept of “portable data centers”. Living in a country where people steal ATMs, I’m already seeing cases of “stolen data centers”…as always, new trends bring new threats for us to think about.

Honeytokens on databases

I recently heard about David Litchfield’s blog. It was a good surprise to see that he posted today a tip about how to deploy “tripwires”, or “honeytokens”, on databases. I understand that this kind of resource os very important to help on identifying insiders. If you manage a database for a big company, it’s worth [...]

Right on the bullseye about the insider threat

I was planning to talk about one of my favorite resources in my blogroll, Securosis. This post about the insider threat reminded me about it. Look at these remarks from Mr. Mogull and you’ll not only understand this “insider threat” better but also about a very good feed to have in your blogroll:

“Once an external [...]

Pete Lindstrom and Linda Stutsman about "best practices"

This post from Mr. Lindstrom is very interesting. Mainly because I totally agree with him on that “there is no such thing as best practices, but I also believe there really should be such a thing“. It’s very hard to work on a field where you can’t show that you performed well. Particularly for me, [...]