Posted in Application, CISSP, COBIT, Defense in Depth, ISACA, Information Security Governance, Opinion, Policies, Relation Competence, Risk on Mar 21st, 2009
I come bearing no answers, only questions. This being the SecurityMonks website, I could not allow the article, “The High Priests of IT — And the Heretics” to pass without comment. No heretics or high priests here. Only a simple security monk. The author, Cory Doctorow, makes his argument well. [...]
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Posted in News, OMB, Policies on Mar 17th, 2008
“How much of FISMA is paperwork vs. actual security?” was the question that Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla. had at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Karen Evans, Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology Office of Management and Budget (OMB), responded “That depends on how an agency goes about doing its work. FISMA has put [...]
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Posted in NSF, News, OMB, Policies on Nov 27th, 2007
“The very concept of information security has undergone a massive refinement over the last decade. Once confined to methods for keeping potentially harmful users out, security is currently much more focused on enabling users to extract value from computing infrastructure—that is, security is concerned with letting the right people access the right information and services [...]
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