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Posts tagged information assurance
Security Clearance
Jul 19th
Security clearances are not your sugar-coated M&Ms handed out on Halloween night to neighborhood kids tricking and treating. The United States government takes painstaking steps to determine a person’s [or an agency's] eligibility to access sensitive information and in turn issues a certificate of qualification.
But what have clearances come to stand for? Are they just a showpiece for employment eligibility or power play? Or worse yet, have clearances become an excuse to act inappropriately.
Adobe Exploit Scare A Crock
Mar 25th
Panic! Unseasoned IT staff saw Adobe’s recent security vulnerability as promise of devastation and widespread compromise. In fact, if you practiced ‘defense in depth,’ your network is safe and sound.
Like every other exploit, this one too was accompanied by the frightening canned phrase:
“These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.”
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