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Brent Easley wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years, 11 months ago
This article is about two executive orders President Obama signed to strengthen The United States government defensed against cyber-attacks and to protect the personal information the government keeps about the […]
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Brent Easley commented on the post, To Antivirus or not to Antivirus, on the site 7 years, 11 months ago
Antivirus is definitely needed on your computer it will catch most viruses and it needs to be updated frequently. In my experience at the end of the day it will always come down to the users and what websites they go to and what they download and/or open (email from a user they don’t know)
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Brent Easley commented on the post, Article: “Car hacking is the future – and sooner or later you'll be hit”, on the site 7 years, 11 months ago
Pretty interesting article. It amazing that we are talking about self driving cars and that sensors can be jammed causing the car to malfunction. Personally I want to be in control of any vehicle that I am driving and not relying on a computer in a car to take me to my location.
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Brent Easley wrote a new post on the site ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 7 years, 11 months ago
I have strong interest in this story because, one you probably never heard of this happening with an employee from a sport franchise, and two, I am a baseball fan. This article is about an employee of the St. […]
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Very interesting article. I know a lot of sports team these days are investing heavily into data and analytics. The Phillies for example hired an ex-Google employee to run their baseball statistics program and invested over a million dollars in a data analytics system. Now that more teams are moving towards evaluating potential players using information systems, instead of the classical way of scouting them, I wonder if they will start taking cyber security seriously.
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Brent,
This is an interesting article. Contrary to what many believe, hacking does not require a ton of technical knowledge, or sophisticated hacking techniques to gain control of a system. Employees should seek permission to wipe their personal laptops prior to leaving a company. Also, it is never a good idea to reuse passwords. I agree, if they would have had a password policy and a dual-factor authentication control in place, it may have reduced the likelihood that Correa would have been able to breach the Astros’ Ground Control system. Also, many professional sports teams are not resorting to Big Data Analytics to assist with scouting, and identifying trends in what makes players successful. SAP has done several implementations of its HANA software in professional organizations to assist teams with analyzing data.-
Also, many professional sports teams are NOW resorting to Big Data Analytics to assist with scouting* I noticed a typo after I posted.
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From what I’ve heard, the Astro’s security processes were ineffective. They reset the password, but did not count on the fact that the attacker had access to victims email, so he got the new password. We don’t cover much about incident response in this course, but one take away is to keep digging once you see a compromise. It is pretty rare that only one thing is compromised.
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Brent,
Great article. I also read that Obama appointed the first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the federal government. This is definitely a time in which cyber crime starts to play a vital role in our national security. Cyber war crimes are prevalent by Middle East countries trying to hijack systems here in the US to gain intelligence.
I thought that was a great move by the President. I am glad they are taking this serious protecting the information of our citizens
This new was all over the internet. It seems like Obama starts to pay attention on cyber crime after what happened to Hilary Clinton. For short term, they should worry about if hackers attack on election day. For long term, they need to prepared for cyber way because nowadays information is more valuable than anything else. It is great to see that president begins to consider cyber security as an important factor.
I agree I think it was an awesome move by the president, creating the two groups to bringing the top minds and leaders to discuss strategy on keeping our information safe
Maybe it’s just me, but asking the government to provide guidance to private industry on cyber security is suspect at best. Government systems are some of the least well maintained systems in the country. They are far behind industry on patching and hardening, and there testers often have there hands tied as they are required to use government built tools rather that tapping in the open source community. Guess we’ll see.
Wade
I think its important to look at the motivations of each organization. The new government entities will have a mission to protect data first, while in business the first mission for security will still be protecting shareholder value. Considering that we have read news of companies hiding massive data leaks often for years, it may be time to have an organization that can help. It seems like they are setting up a knowledge repository more than a regulatory body which should help some companies that can’t afford the resources of larger ones. The government is also throwing a giant pile of money at the problem which can lead to good ideas sometimes.
Although an executive order to modernize our systems to increase their security is a step in the right direction, this is way overdue. In 2015 the Office of Personnel Management leaked 21.5 million government employee records containing personal information. In the private sector, this would be unacceptable and organizations would be faced with hefty regulatory fines and penalties. In this case, the Director of OPM was forced to resign, but I don’t think our government officials are held accountable for security. Again, this is a necessary executive order, but this way overdue and will take years to implement.