» LayerOne '09 Presentation: Diplomatic Security Consulting - May 23, 2009

Kevin Nassery presented “Diplomatic Security Consulting” at LayerOne 2009. Kevin provides real-world accounts of difficult customer engagements and builds on some of the successes and failures charted during his own career to discuss how to navigate and adapt to non-technical challenges in a given environment. See the video or get the slides in PDF.

» Overloaded Security Metrics - May 20, 2009

I find it interesting when two seemingly disparate disciplines arrive at similar conclusions independently. I got this feeling while reading the following two unrelated articles that appeared on the same page in The Wall Street Journal: Derivatives and the Wisdom of Crowds, and The State of Surveillance. Especially since they both touched on a topic [...]

» IANS New York Metro '09 - May 12, 2009

Joel Scambray co-moderated the Application and Software Security track at the IANS New York Metro Information Security Forum at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on May 12-13, 2009.

» The HIPAA Countdown Has Begun: How the Stimulus Bill Affects Healthcare IT - May 1, 2009

Healthcare security experts Jon Espenschied of Consciere and Paul Nguyen of Neohapsis talk about the proactive measures that healthcare organizations need to take to prevent data exposure, misuse, or theft. Compliance with HIPAA and the 2009 stimulus bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA) requires organizations to properly balance the security of Protected Health Information (PHI) with [...]