Posts Tagged ‘Regulatory Compliance’
Prioritizing Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation Steps: A New Users Guide to Getting Started – Part 2
The odd part about writing weekly blogs is the amount of discussions that start internally, with clients directly, and sometimes through straight blog comments. After writing “A New Users Guide to Getting Started” article, my team indicated several really good ideas for a Part II follow-up blog. Simply, just getting started with vulnerability management is not enough….
Prioritizing Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation Steps: A New Users Guide to Getting Started – Part 1
New users to vulnerability assessment often ask the same question: “How do I get started”? While this may sound incredibly generic for a security engineer, many companies have never had a vulnerability management process in place and are trying to comprehend the problems of missing patches, remediation prioritization, and risk acceptance. As a basic recommendation,…
Vulnerability Management in a Data Warehouse
Have you ever been asked, “How long has that vulnerability been in our systems?” Have you ever wondered if your patch management process is keeping up with the number of new vulnerabilities being identified? Keep reading…
PCI DSS 2.0
Yes its PCI time again. PCI DSS 2.0 has just completed final review and is expected to come out next month. As indicated in the summary of changes document , there are no major changes expected. Refinements to better align standards, provide clarifications, increase merchant flexibility, and additional guidance on specific technologies including virtualization and…
Configuration Compliance and Regulatory Reporting
In recent years there have been an increasing number of legislated regulatory mandates with which organizations must comply with to prove the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information stored in their systems and provided through external parties. After reading various whitepapers, websites and other articles that loosely use the terms “PCI, HIPAA, SOX, CIS, NIST,…
