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- Leveraging e-Learning to Deliver Security Knowledge
- Robust Information Technology IT security - knowledge, processes, development, and testing - is essential to the operation of any modern organization, from a small business entrusted with client data to a Fortune 500 firm or government agency responsible for thousands of potentially exploitable applications, databases, laptops, and servers. While security...
- Tags: Information Technology, E-learning, Security Innovation, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2009-01-22
- Software Security Total Risk Management: Security Innovation's Blueprint for Effective Program Development
- Current challenges of the financial services sector aside, risk management has a long and venerable tradition of practical success in the world of insurance premiums and credit card interest rates. In the world of IT, however, the successful application of risk management techniques has been more elusive. This paper examines...
- Tags: Software, Risk Management, Software Security, Security Innovation, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management
- White papers 2008-08-25
- Holodeck Enterprise Edition 2.8 (Windows)
- Holodeck is a software fragility and security testing tool that allows you to analyze the interaction of the application with its environment, and force it to manage error conditions that may lead to failure or breach. It is a filemon, regmon, netmon, processmon, libmon, and apimon all in one user...
- Tags: Security Innovation, Holodeck, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-22
- Tough Questions to Ask Your Vendor About Software Security
- At first blush, the security of software appears to be something intrinsic, like thread to fabric or yeast to bread. First, methods to exploit how the software works are evolving and what may have been an acceptable behavior may now represent a serious weakness that needs to be addressed. The...
- Tags: Software, Security, Security Innovation, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2008-03-24
- Alone in the Dark: The Perils of Securing Web Services
- Service Oriented Architecture SOA has progressed from an industry buzz word to a preferred design principle for business systems - igniting a system design shift that gave birth to the powerful tool known as Web services. Web services are modular chunks of functionality that organizations publish and allow trading partners...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Security Innovation, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2008-02-05
- Security Awareness & Training Programs: Critical Success Factors and Techniques
- For many organizations developing a comprehensive security awareness and training program is a regulatory requirement. For all organizations, it is an effective risk management practice that will mitigate business and technical business risks over both the short- and long-term. This paper mentions Critical Success Factors (CSF's) for creating, managing, and...
- Tags: Technique, Training, Security Innovation, Security
- White papers 2008-01-15
- Biggest Information Security Mistakes That Organizations Make and How to Avoid Making Them
- Information security mistakes are costly, damaging and all too prevalent. Given the obvious repercussions of poor security strategies (see recent incidents from TJX, AOL, and the VA), one is inclined to believe change agents are in place; however, organizations continue to make seemingly avoidable mistakes when it comes to information...
- Tags: Information Security, Security Innovation, Information Security Mistake, Security
- White papers 2007-12-10
- 19 Attacks for Breaking (All) Applications
- Security Innovation is the leading independent provider of risk analysis, risk mitigation and education services to mid-size and Fortune 500 companies. Global technology vendors and enterprise IT organizations such as IBM, Sony, Microsoft, ING, Symantec, Visa, SAP and GE rely on the expertise to understand the security risks in their...
- Tags: Software, Attack, Security Innovation, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management
- White papers 2007-10-10
- Finding Your Inner Evildoer: Leverage Your Alto-Ego to More Thoroughly Security Test Your Web Applications
- In the author's experience as both a software security engineer and trainer, it has become clear that some students catch on to the concepts more quickly than others. Often times, those who tend to excel don't immediately show signs of brilliance. Frequently, a seasoned tester that can hunt down functional...
- Tags: Web Application, Security Innovation, Security
- White papers 2007-08-14
- Regulatory Compliance Demystified: An Introduction to Compliance for Developers
- As a developer, understanding the issues around regulatory compliance can be a difficult and frustrating endeavor. Most developers do not have a legal background and regulators generally do not have a background in software development. The result is a failure to communicate - the language and requirements described in legislation...
- Tags: Developer, Compliance, Security Innovation, Regulatory Compliance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2007-07-23
- Building a Sustainable Information Security Program and Obtaining PCI Compliance Along the Way
- The objective of this whitepaper is to provide organizations with practical advice and tips from a Qualified Security Assessor Company QSAC, an independent information security assessment firm that can conduct and has conducted PCI Audits and issue a PCI Certificate of Validation COV. This paper will provide a roadmap for...
- Tags: Information Security, Security Innovation, PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-05
- Six Best Practices of IT Security
- As valuable and occasionally humorous as the mistakes can be the real pay off comes when people understand what proactive steps to take to prevent their organization from making these same mistakes. This paper provides five practical tips to get people on their way. Of course, every organization's mitigating controls...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Mistake, Best Practice, Security Innovation, Security
- White papers 2007-06-04
- Duct Tape, Band-Aids and Bubble Gum Shouldn't
- Throughout the author's time spent delivering talks at security conferences and in classrooms of prominent software companies, the author consistently hear the same question: "What can they do to secure their software completely?" This question typically comes in response to feeling completely overwhelmed by all the best practices, methodologies, and...
- Tags: Security Innovation, Security
- White papers 2007-05-21
- Duct Tape, Band-Aids and Bubble Gum Shouldn
- Throughout the author's time spent delivering talks at security conferences and in classrooms of prominent software companies, the author consistently hear the same question: "What can they do to secure their software completely?" This question typically comes in response to feeling completely overwhelmed by all the best practices, methodologies, and...
- Tags: Security Innovation, Security
- White papers 2007-05-21
- Threat Modeling for the Management of Risk
- Although vulnerabilities, hackers and exploits are compelling reasons for a focus on application security, they have been overshadowed by compliance issues in the minds of corporate decision makers. The myriad regulations and standards are imposing stricter IT security requirements. Application security has reached a pinnacle of importance in the context...
- Tags: Modeling, Application Security, Security Innovation, Security, Regulations, Government
- White papers 2007-02-26
- Destabilized Server Load Testing
- There are four degrees of freedom in the software development process-time, resources, features and quality. Product management gets to define any three, and engineering always gets to define the fourth. In a typical time boxed development schedule the challenge is to squeeze as much into the available time as possible...
- Tags: Product Management, Defect, Server, Security Innovation, Software Development, Development Tools, Security, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-02-26
- Does Windows rule?
- Here's the reader request: Dear Bloggie:I rec'd this email newsletter today, and I found it very interesting, and admittedly down right controversial. As a Windows guy, even I was having some trouble believing that Windows is such the slam-dunk winner that it's purported to be over Linux. What are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Blog posts 2005-11-28
Additional Resources
- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...
- Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Conference energy levels
- Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years
- Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
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