Month: September 2017
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Quick Review – ASIS Mobile Show App
Mobile devices provide value at trade shows. Having the information available on the show floor can be a great tool to improve your use of precious time on the floor. Unfortunately, like anything else on your mobile device, it introduces another potential place to be attacked. And like most mobile apps, it’s actually made by…
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Fall 2017 Metrics Update
How bad is it? How would you describe a “woops” – a security incident? We have a new metric now. If Brian Krebs calls your security incident response a dumpster fire then you probably really screwed up. This is not a new term. The Wall Street Journal documented it in 2016. IIRC it’s not been used for…
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Unannounced Vendor Remote Access? Is that really a good thing?
The vendor remotely updated owners’ vehicles. No warning, no announcement, no text messages. Is that really a good thing? Is it ok if your vendor just logs into your site and starts tweaking things?
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But will we see cyber listed as a feature in medical advertising?
Another place vulnerabilities are published. I wonder how it’ll go with crossover items. “Linux kernel flaw bricks insulin pump?”
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Equal Expectations for Equal (Non-Person) Entities
I don’t hate robots. I think that any new technology that tries to show up today has to be built with some by this time fairly obvious cyber defenses. This means, first, that the vendor has to get it that we might care. We the customers have a right to have an expectation of thorough…