Collaborate Disseminate
In the traditional parlance of infosec, we’ve been taught repeatedly that the C-I-A triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability) must be balanced in accordance with the needs of the business. This concept is foundational to all of infosec, ensconce… Continue reading Forget C-I-A, Availability Is King
There is a certain text that, if appears on a text message and that message is touched by the user, causes the phone to freeze. The text is formed by many alternating right to left and left to right unicode marks and some spa… Continue reading Why touching a message with this text freezes the phone?
I’m studying for the CCSP exam and am reviewing the Uptime Institute tiers. The tiers make sense but I’m curious: can a datacenter that offers IaaS hosting still advertise and adhere to a high uptime institute tier, even if … Continue reading Are data centers still compliant with Uptime Institute standards even if customer-owned infrastructure isn’t?
When reading about security measures for operating systems I found the recommendation that disk quotas should be used. I thought that is just a general IT requirement to ensure everybody got the same space, hence this require… Continue reading Security requirement disk quotas
As we all know, information security principles are stated as CIA triad, i.e., confidentiality, integrity, and availability. I wonder why authentication is not a part of CIA triad as being an important factor in information s… Continue reading Authentication as CIA triad
Office 365 continues to grow strongly but all the added users (and tenants) do not seem to have impacted the reliability of the service, at least not measured by performance against the guaranteed 99.9% SLA for availability. Incidents do steal minutes away from users, but not enough to make a difference.
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What is the difference between a security goal and a security aspect ? I know about the three network security goals Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. But I do not know much about security aspects.
Availability, or the big “A” is often the overlooked corner of the CIA triad. Perhaps a contributing factor is the common belief among security professionals that if data is not available, it is secure. Corporate executives have a different opinion, as downtime carries with it a hefty price tag. While today’s corporate risk assessment certainly […]
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A domain can have plenty of name servers registered at there domain registrar. The name servers are picked randomly and not like expected primary first, secondary second and so on.
Knowing that, does this mean that when one… Continue reading Availability at risk due to one offine Domain Name Server? [migrated]
It’s hardly a secret that TalkTalk has had problems with tech support scams. Or at any rate its customers have, leading to suspicions that some of the scammers “… know more about their intended victims (and their issues with TalkTalk) than they should.” I don’t suppose for a moment that TalkTalk is actively cooperating with known […] Continue reading Should TalkTalk block TeamViewer?