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How To Find Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Across Your Environment

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How To Find Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Across Your Environment

 

This article is written by a former CTO who talks about how he managed security at his data center. He talked about the “shotgun test” which is a test to see what you could destroy to do the most damage if you only had one bullet. He wanted to find something equivalent to test cybersecurity. He later suggests that’s Nessus vulnerability scanner might be the closest thing you can do to the shotgun test. He also emphasized the importance of having a balanced security portfolio and spend money wisely on diverse and appropriate security strategies.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2017/04/14/how-to-find-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-across-your-environment/#14e753c4878a

Private Cyber Security Insurance

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Insurance giant AIG has recently started selling “personal cyber security insurance”. Corporate cyber security insurance has been around for a while with interesting consequences. Making claims has often been difficult for customers because of the way that the policies are written. This is a very interesting concept for a private individual because it will be hard to determine damages from certain attacks. Not all attacks result in the loss of money or can be directly associated with a cash theft. How do you value someone’s privacy in the example of an email breach or a social media breach?

It sounds like AIG is currently just targeting the wealthy with this product but it will be interesting to see how this will progress in the near future as we become far more dependent on the internet and the product will have to trickle down to the mainstream.

 

http://fortune.com/2017/04/08/cyber-security-insurance-cybersecurity-aig-2017-tools-news/

Approach to Security

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I thought this article was interesting because it focused on the social aspect of security. It talks about how most people are not aware of suber security risks and they are not properly trained. The Article suggests that we have a dangerous mindset about cyber security and it can pose a huge threat. Despite all the recent major breaches in both the private and political sectors people have very little knowledge or self-awareness of the security implications. I think these are very good points and people are relying on technology to protect themselves from threats which leaves us very vulnerable to social threats.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/03/why_america_s_current_approach_to_cybersecurity_is_so_dangerous.html