Roger Halbheer on Security
This 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…
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…
In IT security we talk about the limited impact perimeter security has since a long time. The firewalls do not play the roles anymore they used to as the business got too complex and the term “perimeter” has a completely different notion today. So we try to find new ways to defend: We focus more…
A few years ago, I wanted to run an exercise with our incident response team in Switzerland. A customer, the government and me came together to develop the goals and the scenario. One of the key question we tried to answer together with the university, which we wanted to use as observers was, whether we…
I questioned the value of No-Fly lists since quite a while as I read all these story about how people get on the list but this is kind of the strangest story I ever heard. A UK Immigration officer put his own wife on the No-Fly list as he wanted her to stay in the US – their marriage was kind of challenged.
