Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

Raise Awareness by Sharing Your Knowledge And Experience

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

You help to improve information assurance efforts and assist other information assurance practitioners by sharing your expertise, experiences, and suggestions. Consider writing an article for publication not only to help others, but also to help you hone your writing skills, validate your expertise to your business leaders by showing them your published work, and provide an avenue for meeting other professionals who reach out to ask you questions about your article.

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What A Nice Surprise: I’m On the IT Security List of Top 59 IT Security Influencers!

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

It was quite a wonderful surprise to read an email message this morning from IT Security telling me I was put on their list of top 59 IT security influencers for 2007.

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Audit Reveals Poor Computer & Data Disposal Practices At Idaho National Laboratory

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Yesterday Government Computer News reported bad computer disposal methods at the Idaho National Laboratory that leaves confidential and restricted data, including nuclear details, vulnerable.

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RFID Silliness: Is The Eagle on Your Coin Watching You?

Friday, January 12th, 2007

I saw an article on Yahoo news yesterday, “U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins,” that pointed out a warning issued by the U.S. Defense Security Service about Canadian coins being used to track U.S. government contractors.
The CIA has information about similar types of coins: “This hollow container, fashioned to look like an Eisenhower silver dollar, is still used today to hide and send messages or film without being detected. Because it resembles ordinary pocket change, it is virtually undetectable as a concealment device.”

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100 Million Internet Web Sites

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Today CNN announced the Internet now has 100 million (100,000,000) web sites “with domain names and content on them.” They provided several interesting accompanying statistics.

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100 Million Internet Web Sites

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Today CNN announced the Internet now has 100 million (100,000,000) web sites “with domain names and content on them.” They provided several interesting accompanying statistics.

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