The Importance of Effective Information Sharing
This week, I testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs at a hearing on “Protecting America from Cyber Attacks: the Importance of Information Sharing.
Putting Information Sharing into Context
Putting Information Sharing into Context: New Whitepaper Offers Framework for Risk Reduction The nearly incessant drumbeat of cybersecurity incidents over the past weeks and months has brought about renewed interested in information sharing across the technical and political spheres.
7 Precautions for Protecting Against Perpetrators
Cyberattacks and data breaches continue to dominate the news globally. The reality is that most organizations face the same often reported threats and are carrying on their work towards counteracting those risks. Some organizations victimized by cybercriminals have shared information publicly.
Microsoft Interflow: a new Security and Threat Information Exchange Platform
Today, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced the private preview of Microsoft Interflow. This is a security and threat information exchange platform for cybersecurity analysts and researchers. Interflow provides an automated machine-readable feed of threat and security information that can be shared across industries and community groups in near real-time.
5 reasons NOT to share personal information on a website
Knowing when to trust a website depends in part on who publishes it, what information they want, and what you want from the site. Here are five reasons to think twice before sharing information with a website. 1.      The site asks for personal information on a page whose URL does not start with HTTPS.