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Tech Insight: Quick Wins For Strengthening SMB Security

2013-06-25/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

A posting from Dark reading in there SMB Security section. Big or small, companies are being hacked every day no matter their size. Small businesses ask, “Why me? I don’t have anything worth stealing.” Yet they don’t realize how useful their high-speed Internet connections are as new launch points for brute-force SSH scans and DDoS […]

EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate

2013-06-19/0 Comments/in Privacy/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security on Cybersecurty Strategy : A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union’s plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don’t provide enough protection for personal data. In the same statement, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx suggested that too little attention has been paid to existing regulations and […]

Tech Insight: Quick Wins For Strengthening SMB Security

2013-06-25/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate

2013-06-19/0 Comments/in Privacy/by fdesir

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Tech Insight: Quick Wins For Strengthening SMB Security

2013-06-25/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

A posting from Dark reading in there SMB Security section.

Big or small, companies are being hacked every day no matter their size. Small businesses ask, “Why me? I don’t have anything worth stealing.” Yet they don’t realize how useful their high-speed Internet connections are as new launch points for brute-force SSH scans and DDoS attacks. The simple truth is that no one is safe from attack, and small organizations often feel the impact more than large enterprises because of their limited budgets and IT staff.

Since January, I’ve been speaking with IT staff from local city and county governments throughout Florida at conferences and in private meetings. The common issue among nearly every one of their organizations is that they have practically no budget for security and no dedicated security staff. In many cases, there is only one or two IT people, and they handle everything from desktop and server support to IT training and security. My goal with the talks has been to help these small groups realize quick and no-cost (or low-cost) ways to strengthen their security posture.

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EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate

2013-06-19/0 Comments/in Privacy/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security on Cybersecurty Strategy :

A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union’s plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don’t provide enough protection for personal data.

In the same statement, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx suggested that too little attention has been paid to existing regulations and agencies, and that it would be useful to have tighter definitions of what exactly the European Commission means by “cybercrime” and related terms.

The statement comes as an official “opinion” document [PDF] responding to the EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy [PDF] plan.

The strategy was issued in February alongside proposals for a set of unified network and information security rules, referred to as the “NIS Directive [PDF]“.

The strategy document got a lukewarm reception at the time, with general approval that the EC was heading in the right direction but worries that the proposals were too vague and open-ended. The opinions from the EDPS seem to echo this, welcoming the existence of the strategy but pointing out some potential problems.

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