Yazan: admin | 27 November 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Life Security, Security 101
Why The Adversary Never Sleeps Even During Holidays
Holidays are probably the best time for the adversary after your money or resources to find easy prey. Unfortunately, during a time of increased threats and viruses, burglaries, etc…most people probably 80% will be less vigilant and alert.
Don’t Let Your Guard Down
I know it’s the Holidays [...]
Yazan: admin | 22 November 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Mastering Strategy
Why should you learn and master strategy?
Learning strategy is important for many reasons:
To survive and minimize negative effects or threats (to stay secure!)
To prosper, come out ahead, beat the competition or adversary and win!
To stay wise, well-learned and thereby prevent problems/avoid trouble
To avoid learning the hard way
To avoid letting history repeat itself
This can apply to [...]
Yazan: admin | 14 November 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Resources
In this article, I’ll talk about 4 Antivirus Programs I Tested
I’ll examine and assess various anti-virus and anti-spyware/anti-malware programs. While describing these programs, I’ll focus on my experience with each of them, in general, as well as on specific things such as what I feel best meets my personal needs and why, the features I [...]
Yazan: admin | 09 November 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Risk & Trust in Security
Security is entirely based on trust
If you feel like you can trust the bank with your money, that’s where you keep it. If you feel like you can trust a mega corporation (like Enron) then you’ll keep all of your trust (stocks) there. If you feel like you can trust your relatives, you [...]
Yazan: admin | 05 November 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Risk & Trust in Security
In part 1 of this series “Trust But Verify As a Security Strategy”…
I touched on how trust but verify can be a good thing to check others as well as ourselves. In this article I’ll focus on how “trust but verify” should be used as a security strategy or method in other ways for our [...]
Yazan: admin | 04 November 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Threats to Security
A Bureaucracy Can Actually be a Vulnerability
How?
Because bureaucracies are inherently slow, cumbersome, and lack the necessary continuity to stay secure. They tend to have slips. They also tend to be driven by the personalities that rule them rather than by the processes that rule them. This is why a bureaucracy can have [...]