• Blocking Social Media–What is Your View?

    If you are reading my blog posts regularly, you might have seen that I am not a big friend of blocking social media at the edge. When I talk with customers about why they are blocking it, I usually get these type of answers: People are spending...
  • Moving my blog!!

    Well, I will continue to announce this, until I see the hitrate decline At the moment, I am running two blogs. This one and the one on http://www.halbheer.info/security which both contain more or less the same content. I am still planning to move over...
  • Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks?

    There is an good article on CIO Central: Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks? An interesting discussion and I part agree that we have to challenge the way we look at the security risks. I would even broaden the questions he raises. When I talk...
  • Phishing still very effective: 35 cards in 5 hours

    I just read this blog post by ESET laboratories: Inside a phishing attack: 35 credit cards in 5 hours . They analyzed a very poorly designed phishing attack and found that: The first access to the site was on January 20 at 10:01 pm (as seen in picture...
  • From the Inside: Our CISO on Cloud Security

    You are worried about compliance and risks in the cloud? Well, listen to our CISO and see his views: The promise of cloud computing is great and yet this new computing paradigm presents new challenges in the area of information security. In this session...