JR

14.1 I had this conversation with a CISO last month regarding our email policy. He had to deal with similar issues. As per his organization’s policy users are to use the encrypted secure message center on their EHR for such communication. I asked him what happens if physicians or users decide to send emails anyway since using the message center…[Read more]

Open standards can be challenged, broken down, patched and fixed by numerous people who rigorously test these standards. This allows the creation and development of products that are known to outlast issues that the standards are supposed to protect against or resolve.
We should open up other processes and systems in IT to open review/testing…[Read more]

Open standards can be challenged, broken down, patched and fixed by numerous people who rigorously test these standards. This allows the creation and development of products that are known to outlast issues that the standards are supposed to protect against or resolve.
We should open up other processes and systems in IT to open review/testing…[Read more]

I agree with your statement that Kerckhoff’s 2nd principle is a strong indictment of “security through obscurity” however, I think there could be exceptions to this for proprietary software that use the latest, patched, well-tested, open source software under the hood. Such software will have well tested processes whose implementation isn’t widely…[Read more]

The ideal technique that should be used would be white-listing. However, since most organizations do not have a lot of personnel that can support white listing and troubleshooting every since application that every user in an organization would use, it might be easier to blacklist applications.

Different methodologies would support different…[Read more]

I’ve been on the linux bandwagon for the majority of my life. My first computer was an old Dell desktop donated from a library with 128 MB of RAM and barely 10 GB of storage. At the time, an average computer had about 2048 MB of RAM and a 100 – 500 GB of storage. Using Linux helped me make the most of limited resources I had to do just about…[Read more]

Hi all,

If anyone needs access to the Fedora 23 live image, you can get it here:
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/23/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

Note: The files are hosted at multiple locations, it’s probably best to go to the link a few times and get the checksums from a few locations and make sure that the file you…[Read more]

Hi all,

My name is Jerrin. I’m also a Temple MIS grad. I work as a programmer at the Einstein Medical Center. This is my 2nd semester as a part time student in the Temple ITACS program. I’m excited to be in this class and learn more about what can be done to secure the cyber surface of a business entity.