Roger Halbheer on Security
Dear CEOs, I know that you feel that security is important – something which was not always the case in all the years I am working in the industry. But you changed your mind and this is great. But I know as well that you rarely feel comfortable, when it comes to working with your…
DetailsWhen we talk about the Cloud, encryption is typically not far. There are different challenges with encryption, one of them – besides usability, key management etc – is the loss of functionality. In other words: If we would assume that we can manage the keys with reasonable efforts and the user is able to use…
DetailsThis morning – going through my RSS feeds – I read the following article looking into the latest Juniper backdoors: 4 Juniper Questions Congress Should Be Asking – Did NSA Create a Backdoor in U.S. Networking Giant’s Gear? The article covers the background of the event a bit and then raises four questions: How did…
DetailsI guess we all agree on certain challenges in the future: Our businesses as well as our IT will become more and more digital and therefore security will need to change. The pace of a compliance-based approach will simply be too slow to come up with reasonable solutions in a light of new, dynamic and…
DetailsSometimes I read papers and think that they seem to be fairly good. But this one kind of blew me away – let me give you the reason before I give you the link… There are some constants in my security life: I am deeply convinced that the CSO needs to have a thorough security…
DetailsSeriously? Hard coded password? Someone Just Leaked Hard-Coded Password Backdoor for Fortinet Firewalls
We talked a lot about critical infrastructure protection – especially in the light of failures thereof. Therefore I really like some of the work ENISA does on recommendations for them.
Here is a new one for intelligent public transportation: Cyber Security and Resilience of Intelligent Public Transport. Good practices and recommendations
Remember the prediction we have seen in a lot of “what security brings us in 2016” that we will see failure of critical infrastructure due to security incidents. Well, it seems that news just waited for the year to turn 2016 to appear (not exactly, the US news appeared late December): The US Power grid…
DetailsThe initial security discussion was all about browsers: Which one shows less vulnerabilities, which one is more secure? There were even government agencies in Europe recommending the use of a different browser every other week based on the “vulnerability de jour”. This changed a bit and modern browsers are more or less out of focus…
DetailsA challenge, which we have to address: How will we secure the Internet of Things in the future? Swisscom (“my” former security architecture team) just published an interesting paper called Integrity and trust in the Internet of Things. We need new approaches on how we will deal with security – interestingly, the ones Swisscom is…
DetailsIs this my new life as a consultant now 😉 http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-12-20
I read this article (Surviving an Insecure Cyber Workforce) this morning about “the user” (and was once more disappointed – initially. They talk about the importance of awareness, the technology to make sure that the user does not access anything outside their business needs and only well audited etc. and at the very, very end…
DetailsNo, they are still not coming from me but this article is actually really interesting: Top 15 security predictions for 2016. A few of them are remarkable: At your criminal service (Kaspersky/Seculert) The profitability of cyber-attacks means sophisticated criminal gangs with modern organizational models and tools will replace common cyber criminals as the primary threat.…
DetailsA lot of articles are looking into the Morgan Stanley breach case, which is definitely an interesting story all by itself. An employee illegally accesses information and stores it on his home server. Obviously not a very smart thing to do but initially it rested there. It would be interesting to understand what he planned to…
DetailsThis time of the year typically two things happen: I am asked several times to either have a presentation or write an article about “Security in 2016”. The second thing is that everybody who writes a blog or otherwise thinks that they have to say something look into the crystal ball and writes an article…
DetailsI am really worried. Always after major incidents like serious crimes or terror attacks like in Paris, politicians start to push for the spotlight. They want to show that they are here for the citizens and here to protect them. This is definitely not bad at all but when it comes to high-tech discussions –…
DetailsThis is actually an interesting discussion: Critical Infrastructure: Better Cybersecurity Metrics Needed. From a high level view there is nothing you can object here. Definitely we need better metrics and definitely it would help us to understand the maturity of security in any given company – not just the critical infrastructure. But wait, I think…
DetailsI just got informed today, that I have been elected as a full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. The vision of the SATW is: SATW is recognized as the principal organisation for the communication of independent, objective and comprehensive information about technology – as a basis for the forming of well-founded opinions…
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