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Archive for the ‘General Security’ Category

Great Virtualization Quote

Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Posted in General Security | No Comments »

I read a great article on virtualization and redundancy. The quote below was taken from the posting and I thought it spoke volumes. Enjoy. The Probability of a server having an outage is part hardware failure but mostly administrator ...

HTTPS Dissected

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in General Security | No Comments »

This infomation was pulled from Jeff Moser's Blog and copied here for future reference.  Great post by Jeff. Thanks for the information. The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection Convinced from spending hours reading rave reviews, Bob eagerly clicked "Proceed to Checkout" for ...

Verizon Data Breach Report – 2009

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in General Security | No Comments »

This years Verizon Breach report is out.  This seems to make a compelling argument that PCI can help as well as we are still not winning the battle on low hanging security fruit i.e. password management and patch management.  The ...