The Weekly Hotwash: July 3, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: A new study on password entropy highlights worrying statistics on how common passwords are across the userbase.
The Weekly Hotwash: June 26, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: The charade of DDOS booter service takedowns and the death toll for Adobe Flash has begun; will it be as beneficial as we hope?
The Weekly Hotwash: June 19, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: The explosion of phishing and SPAM during 2020 is a direct attack on our users. It is time to rethink email security.
The Weekly Hotwash: June 5, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: 5 of the top 8 threats can be mitigated with programmatic identity management. Are you considering the value such programs bring?
The Weekly Hotwash: May 29, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: The demise of SHA-1 is a road sign on the deterioration of security controls and how embedded open-source unknowingly introduces risk.
The Weekly Hotwash: May 22, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: How a study of pandemic statistical reporting can help you develop better security metrics.
The Weekly Hotwash: May 15, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: The CISSP vs Masters firestorm and revisiting the secure application development process.
The Weekly Hotwash: May 8, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash: Why the hiring process is more to blame than the lack of InfoSec resources and the new NIST Secure Software Development Standards
The Weekly Hotwash: May 1, 2020
A Major Step in Federated Identity Management If you have followed my blog for any amount of time, you know that I am a firm believer that user account federation and identity management is the last bastion of hope that we have in securing our environments. For reasons I don’t quite understand, there was very…
The Weekly Hotwash: April 24, 2020
The Weekly Hotwash – A New CoaC Feature Welcome to the first CoaC Weekly Hotwash; a recap of the past week’s news and the implications the stories may have on us. For those unfamiliar with what a ‘hotwash’ is, its a term used to describe the immediate review and identification of actions following an event,…