Stopping Data Exfiltration Before It Happens
Typically, what is the most important element of your business? That would be your data, of course! Protecting your data is one of the most important things you can do for your business, and if you aren’t doing that, you should be. In the article Tech Insight: Throwing a Net Around Data Exfiltration, John Sawyer talks about how the majority of presentations at ShmooCon this year were linked to data exfiltration. To be honest, I do not see how this is different from any other year. The major hackers are always trying to get into your...
read moreHappy New Year: Time For a Password Reset
With the New Year underway and many New Years’ resolutions in full force (hopefully), lets take a moment and look at the goals we made for 2011. Some of us want to exercise more or save more money; some even want to buy a new car or home. Well, what about personal goals towards your Internet activities? I recently came across an email about SourceForge resetting their database servers because they experienced a direct attack to their network infrastructure (http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-net-attack/). Here is an excerpt from the...
read moreWorld IPv6 Day (Test Drive Day)
A 24-hour IPv6 “trial” is schedule for June 8, 2011. This trial, known as World IPv6 Day (also known as Test Drive Day), will result in some major organizations offering their content via IPv6 for the day. Some of the most popular organizations that are participating include Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and Verizon. The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness and motivate organizations across the Internet to adopt the new Internet Protocol version. More information on World IPv6 Day is available at the Internet Society’s...
read moreDocumenting Business Rules for Security Configurations
Consider the following scenario: A new firewall is installed at your organization with a particular configuration (also known as a rule set). This rule set probably contains best practices; in addition, the person or group managing the system will also insert some additional rules to deal with a specific need or threat. While the rule set itself is probably good, the implementation team didn’t create a repository or security policy that maps each security rule to a “business rule” (i.e. non-technical justification for the...
read moreHappy Holidays from Etnacom!
We’ll keep this post short and sweet – we at Etnacom wish you and yours a very happiest of holidays. We hope that you can be with the ones you love during the holiday season. To all of the servicemen and women overseas, we are grateful for your service and wish you a happy holiday and safe return. Best of Luck in the New Year, The Etnacom...
read moreHave Gmail or Google Apps? Try This Great Way to Track Spam
I can’t say that this was an original idea of mine; it’s scattered throughout the Internet and a co-worker first brought it to my attention (I know the person would probably prefer not to be named). On the other hand, this is a great way to track spam, especially what organizations are giving out your e-mail address, and so I thought I would mention it. Gmail has this little known capability to append strings to the end of your e-mail address. This is for tracking purposes. For example, if your e-mail address was...
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