Younes Khantouri

Ahmed,
It is important to prepare for such events by creating a good plan to replace those important elements or create a system that makes the organization not dependent to few employees to process tasks.

Fred,
I think one way to prevent pandemic events is by not choosing locations that have a high risk to have pandemic events when you create the organization. Documents should be distributed to employees that explain step by step what should be done in case of such event. This can be a type of education for employees to know how to deal with these events.

Fred,
Thank you for the explanation, Quantum computing is a new computer technology area of study based on the principles of Quantum Theory. This theory explains the nature and behavior of energy and matter on the quantum (atomic and subatomic) level. These new generation of computers would increase the capability to a modern supercomputers, they…[Read more]

Fraser,
I do agree with you, these types of computers are already in the market which means that the changes in the IT security will be noticed soon. For example, in the field of encryption, as professor Green said in class are based on mathematical calculations to create a random algorithm which is required so many calculations that takes a long…[Read more]

Donald,
I believe that we should demand some space on certain IT protocols to add our touches to secure our IT architectures. For example, Apple should give us the ability to customize our security dependent to our needs, that won’t only provide a better security, but it will help Apple to increase its sales numbers because more organizations w…[Read more]

Jason,
Your answer explain it all. Proprietary protocols helps to protect more systems and makes it hard to attack them, however it makes it hard for developers to add their touches to increase the security. In the other hand, open protocols help to develop and increase the security level because they give chance to develop better secured code,…[Read more]

Neil,
Thank you for the answer that explain most of it, applications should be whitelisted if it’s absolutely required for the organization and if it can be set. The IT department should decide what type of applications should be whitelisted or blacklisted. These decisions should be dependent to how much are those applications important to the o…[Read more]

Kevin,
I do agree with you in most parts of your post. However, using Blacklisting and White listing can be useful to block and give permission to certain applications to be part of the IT structure if the IT department keep watching the traffic to determine which application can be allowed or restricted from the IT structure.

Neil,
I do agree with you. So many people prefer using Windows, simply because they grow up using it and does’t require any coding skills at all. This is the reason why Microsoft has been and going to be doing well. However, I do believe that Linux has people who prefer, security is a big reason for that as well as it gives users the opportunity…[Read more]

Richard,
Thank you for the interesting post. I do believe the something, Linux is the operating system that will have big future for people who are in the security field. It’s an open source OS which can give these professionals the chance to be productive and develop techniques to secure companies architectures.

Security Tools:

I do believe that in so many cases companies define the tools that suppose to be used to monitoring and maintaining the security level of the IT resources. It has a lot to do with the job roles demands to use these tools. In my opinion, organizations should use anything to protect IT resources including using such resting tools.…[Read more]

Donald,
I do agree that Single Sign On provides an convenient solutions for so many companies to help employees and third parties to access to resources remotely, but this technology have a great security concerns such as giving a limited access to third parties to have access to the resources since it doesn’t have Access Controls management that…[Read more]

Neil,
Single Sign On (SSO) is a good way for so many companies to let an employee or a third party authorized user to access to one or more of its applications. It’s a very good way to access to multiple applications. However, it is very risky since it can put the organization resources (Data and Hardware).

Richard,

I think this will be an issue for those who use a second hand Echo device. I think that some of those Echo devices can be having a modified software which can harm our private lives. Again, The people have to start to new devices especially those are containing software.

Very interesting topic Richard, thank you.

Very interesting post Fred,
This kind of news became very normal lately, but this time is surprising because a this is a very important because it’s one of the largest companies that run our sensitive data. It’s very scary to see a company like Equifax doesn’t invert on securing our data and protect us. They were trusted to have all these…[Read more]

Donald.
I do believe that these companies that manufacture Medical Devices should work on the security part in parallel with developing new once to help people lives. I am saying this for the following reasons:

– Security has to be guaranteed when you integrate software to these devices, especially that most of them are connected tirelessly…[Read more]

Donald,

Interesting post that talks about something completely new which is making Ethical Hackers in Singapore licensed if they have the right requirements such as academic education. I think, it is a good step to regulate this field and have an idea about what these ethical Hackers do. As a response to Neil’s comment, I believe that…[Read more]