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As we barrel further into the digital age, IT security carries increasing importance to the operation of your business. IT services now represent both the hub of business operations and the primary line of defense for most companies. Accordingly, it is… Continue reading How to Invest in Your Employees to Strengthen IT Security for Your Business
You’ve put in the time, proved you have the knowledge and skills, and earned the certification. Maybe you’ve rinsed and repeated that cycle multiple times and now you have multiple certifications to your name. Your certifications validate y… Continue reading CompTIA Stackable Certifications
Today, I will be going over Control 17 from version 7 of the CIS top 20 Critical Security Controls – Implement a Security Awareness and Training Program. I will go through the nine requirements and offer my thoughts on what I’ve found. Key … Continue reading 20 Critical Security Controls: Control 17 – Implement a Security Awareness and Training Program
After another highly successfully year of our Malware and Memory Forensics training, which included sold-out public trainings in Herndon, VA and London as well as several private trainings, we are excited to announce our lineup of public trainings for … Continue reading Malware and Memory Forensics Training Headed to Herndon and Amsterdam!
Are you a developer who wants to better understand web application security? Are you a security practitioner who needs to delve into web app penetration testing? Well now you have your chance! Come and learn how to hack web application… Continue reading Professionally Evil Web Application Security Class Live in Charlotte NC
Samurai Web Testing Framework, if you’re not familiar with it, it’s a linux environment that is primarily now used for teaching web application penetration testing. It has a number of target web applications to train against, and a curated … Continue reading The Future of SamuraiWTF
Building a successful audit analytics program is like climbing a staircase. The staircase is a set of steps that consist of several items having increasing levels of maturity. The staircase steps not only help you build your program, but enable …… Continue reading The Analytic Staircase for Auditors
Proofpoint has announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase Pittsburgh-based Wombat Security Technologies for $225 million in cash. By acquiring Wombat, the Sunnyvale, California-based company adds phishing simulation and security training to its suite of products. Proofpoint’s established products and solutions include email security, advanced threat protection and data archiving. Proofpoint also will incorporate Wombat’s PhishAlarm into its threat intelligence products, with the goal of providing broader visibility and intelligence when it comes to phishing attacks. More than of half of all respondents (53 percent) to a Wombat-authored study dealt with spearphishing attacks in 2017. Because threat actors target employees as the weakest link, companies need to continuously train employees and arm them with real-time threat data,” said Gary Steele, Proofpoint CEO, in announcing the deal Tuesday. “The acquisition of Wombat gives us greater ability to help protect our customers from today’s people-centric cyberattacks, as cybercriminals look for new […]
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Since our founding in 2010 Secure Ideas has always tried to focus on education and increasing the amount of available knowledge in our field. As such we have contributed to courses, presented at conferences around the world and contributed … Continue reading Professionally Evil Web App Pen Testing 101 Course
Today I received what was clearly a malicious document in my email, so to celebrate the publishing of my second PluralSight course – Performing Malware Analysis on Malicious Documents – I thought I’d go through the analysis of the document.
The documen… Continue reading Document Analysis – 2018-newsletters.xls