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New Drafts From NIST on Coninuous Monitoring

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Mary Brown

NIST has published several new drafts meant to provide guidance to organizations in strategies for continuous monitoring of their environments.  Enjoy!      


Anonymous’ Sneaky Attack Trick Revealed

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Mary Brown

Interesting article explaining how Anonymous is using social networking to gain participants in their activities.


Student work opportunities with Maverick Software

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Mary Brown

Maverick Software, a partner of Advance IT Minnesota, has work opportunity for IT students. The work place is located in Minneapolis, MN, next to the College of Management and MCTC.  Training is offered. Read more.


Security Implications of SOPA/PIPA?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Mary Brown

I tried to email a US senator who was a supporter of PIPA today and found the website down.  Connection?  Got me thinking about anonymous and the culture of ‘payback’ that has populated the tech. world recently.  Might there be … Continue reading →


Featured Learner: Adam Ely

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Mary Brown

Adam Ely is director of security for TiVo. As an Information Week Analytics contributor, he has authored multiple research reports on data and code security. “Best Practices: Enterprise Digital Rights Management” is one of his recently published articles. He previously … Continue reading →