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Risk Management
View Available Dates and Locations Why be reactive, when you can be proactive? If you are tired of having to pull your team off critical path activities to deal with the crisis of the day, effective risk management is the solution. Risk management, as an integrated ...
Tags: Risk Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management
Training 2008-02-01
IT risk management: How to get what you want
What does it take to get attention for IT initiatives in today's enterprise? In most cases, it means making a compelling business case - and getting the right information to the right people in the right language. IT risk management initiatives are definitely worthy of executive attention....
Tags: Information Technology, Risk Management, Strategy, Management, Jennie Grimes
Blog posts 2008-01-15
Risk management proposal
hi, can any one help me writing risk mangement proposal in any field of IT&T. I need to submit 5 pages of report and give a seminar before executives.can any one write 5 pages and post it.It has include project details, how good it is, previous work, and cost estimation,etc.and...
Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Sales strategy, Strategy, Financial Planning, SECURITY, rvrao_28@..., risk management
Discussion threads 2007-10-13
Manage patch deployment with these five steps
While recently working on a network with roughly 10,000 hosts, I discovered two machines that had gone unpatched for 11 months. This might not seem like a big deal -- .02 percent of machines that remained unpatched doesn't sound too bad.But it only takes one unprotected machine to infect or...
Tags: vulnerability, Threats, Security Solutions, Security, Risk Management, patching, Hacking
Blog posts 2007-07-12
Data owners are not always the final word in data protection
Data owners are responsible for determining who accesses sensitive information as well as the level of access (i.e. read, write, etc.), but at what point should data owner approval be checked by the security team?  In other words, when is it appropriate for Security to deny a data owner approved...
Tags: Risk Management, Leadership, Security Solutions, Security, Compliance
Blog posts 2007-06-14
The Pragmatic Professional
I’m concerned that even among IT professionals (that is, people paid to manage other people’s computers) there is often a very narrow view of what is “correct.”Some people not only insist that their particular choice of IT tools is the best, they demand that others acknowledge this. That attitude seems...
Tags: Technology, Security, Risk Management, Leadership, IT Management, Education
Blog posts 2007-06-04
Security solutions often have secondary benefits
Like all security managers, I work to implement the right tools to defend against specific threats.  Sometimes, however, a tool implemented for one purpose might be valuable in other ways. About two years ago, we installed a web filtering application that blocks user access to selected web site categories.  The business...
Tags: Threats, Threat Modeling, Spyware, Risk Management, patching, Malware, IT Management, Intrusion Detection, Internet, HIPAA, Hacking, data theft, Cybercrime, Computer Crime, Antivirus
Blog posts 2007-06-03
Look again, the barbarians might be inside the gates
During the Gartner 2007 Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, attendees were asked to vote on three important issues facing IT professionals today.  The results of those votes might have far reaching implications for security professionals (Tom Austin, et al, Gartner Clients Substantially Reject Tight Control Over Users, Gartner ID Number G00148513,...
Tags: Security, Risk Management, IT Management, HIPAA, End User, Cybercrime, Compliance
Blog posts 2007-05-28
Managing risk starts with asking the right questions
Whether you’re a proponent of formal risk assessments or of less stringent methods for identifying security control requirements, it’s important to know what questions to ask.  Missing a question can result in overlooking one or more critical vulnerabilities.The first step is to form a general hypothesis about the target system. ...
Tags: Threat Modeling, Security, Risk Management, It Management, HIPAA, Database Assurance, Cybercrime, Compliance
Blog posts 2007-05-17
Photoshop File Threat - Did You Ever?
Just when you thought it was safe to do something online, we have an example which shows that there can be dangerous vulnerabilities in virtually any application.Im including this Photoshop file threat not because I think it will become some massive security threat to a lot of users but simply...
Tags: vulnerability, Threats, Threat Modeling, Security, Risk Management, It Management, Hacks, Hacking, Cybercrime, adobe, acrobat
Blog posts 2007-05-07
Do external penetration tests have any value?
When you talk about external penetration pen testing with a group of security managers, the discussion can get a little heated. There seems to be a lot of passion about whether pen tests are a waste of time or a necessary tool for security controls management. I believe...
Tags: vulnerability, security, security manager
Blog posts 2007-03-23
The Pros and Cons of Security Risk Management
Risk management is the method most often used as the path to reach reasonable and appropriate spending and management of security controls. However, there seems to be contention between security professionals who believe this is the proper approach and those who believe that risk management is fundamentally flawed.The following...
Tags: Compliance, HIPAA, It Management, Risk Management, Security, Threat Modeling
Blog posts 2007-03-15
The 7 habits of highly effective information security leaders
The balance between operational efficiency and information assurance presents some special challenges. On one side of the scale, business operations need to be as efficient as possible to meet company objectives. On the other side, information security professionals seek to secure sensitive and critical information assets to protect...
Tags: It Management, Leadership, Risk Management, Security, Tom Olzak
Blog posts 2007-03-12
Locksmith - multiple warnings but no Microsoft Bulletins this month.
This would normally be the time when a copy of my Locksmith column and newsletter goes out to cover Microsoft Security Bulletins but there wont be any this month at least not on the regular patch Tuesday so I will cover other security threats here in the security blog.Actually it...
Tags: Apple, Internet, Internet Service, Locksmith, Microsoft, pathcing, Risk Management, Security
Blog posts 2007-03-12
Use risk management for reasonable information asset protection
Managing Risk...How do you manage risk in your organization?
Tags: asset, it management, risk management, security, Tom Olzak
Discussion threads 2007-02-19
Use risk management for reasonable information asset protection
Selecting the right security controls can be a daunting task. By applying the principles of risk management, however, security managers can meet the challenge with confidence.What is risk?The easiest way to define risk is by examining the following formula:Risk = Threats x Vulnerabilities x Impact Reducing any one of...
Tags: Security, It Management, Compliance, Tom Olzak, Risk Management, risk, vulnerability, asset
Blog posts 2007-02-19
Risk assessment: Identifying the negative unintended consequences
I woke up this week to a news report about the debut of GE Securitys “revolutionary” new shoe scanner, which apparently turned out to be anything but revolutionary. The USA Today cover story declared: “New scanner gets off on wrong foot." The article then went into detail about how 52...
Tags: General Electric Co., risk assessment, Risk Management, scanner
Blog posts 2007-01-21
Consolidate all project management deliverables in the project plan
A project plan is not the project schedule or workplan. It's the name given to all of the project management documents used during the project. Many people use the term "project plan" to mean the project schedule or workplan. However, the project plan is actually the name...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project plan, project management, project management deliverable, Project Management Newsletter, Risk Management, Plan, It Operations, It service Management, Management
Technical articles 2007-01-16
Is fingerprinting IT employees an extreme or just another security practice?
I completed a questionnaire the other day regarding whether the IT employees in my organization are fingerprinted at the time of employment and furthermore, did I think it was a good idea to do so? The answer to the first question is no; we perform a thorough background check, but...
Tags: information technology, IT employee, IT Security, Risk Management, security
Blog posts 2007-01-07
IT Management Interview
I'm taking an online class. One of the assignments for the next week is to interview a manager and present the responses to the following questions:What is your view of IT Information Technology?What percentage of the company's (or division's) budget is spent on IT issues?How has the role of IT...
Tags: DelMonte, information technology, IT administration, it management, risk management
Discussion threads 2006-10-11


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