The good news for IT security professionals is that there are a number of IT security standards that they can use as a guideline when developing or implementing IT projects. Remember that these standards are well thought out and proven practices that can improve information security goals of your organization. Only the popular and globally recognized IT security standards have been presented in this post. [Read more…] about List of Popular IT Security Standards
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63 Web Application Security Checklist for IT Security Auditors and Developers
As you know that every web application becomes vulnerable when they are exposed to the Internet. Fortunately, there are a number of best practices and coutner measures that web developers can utilize when they build their apps. This post will list some proven counter measures that enhance web apps security significantly. [Read more…] about 63 Web Application Security Checklist for IT Security Auditors and Developers
8 Open Source Web Application Security Testing Tools
Web application security testing might seems intimidating and esoteric to many web administrator, especially to the new ones. Have you ever asked yourself why so many IT professionals ignore the security aspects of the applications? We seem to have a tendency to ignore things that is unperceivable. You become concern when something breaks or any security breach occurs in our IT systems. The truth is there a number of efficient and open source web security vulnerabilities analysis tools that you can easily earn and use to implement IT security best practices to your IT department.
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Android Security Issues and Prevention
This post about android security intends to give the Android users as holistic view of the phone security.
Apps: since android is an open platform and anyone can write apps and publish it in Google apps, the apps itself can contain malicious which may steal data and sensitive tips from your phone. So, when installing any app, try to check if the app has any security issues. A simple Google search may give you useful information about a particular app. to keep your android phone secure, make sure that apps you are already using has no major security concern and try to update your apps or apply the security patches to keep phone secure. [Read more…] about Android Security Issues and Prevention
Is It Worth Doing Online Master Degree in Information Security?
As online degrees is getting recognised and accepted by the employers, many students prefer to take online courses. If you are from IT background and considering to take an online master degree in IT security, this post may help you determine whether taking online master degree help you achieve your goal. If you put yourself in an employer’s shoes and think about recruiting an information security profession. Whom would you give more preference: a candidate with a normal IT degree or a candidate with a master degree in information security.
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Webhosting Security-Best Practices and Concerns
To many IT professionals, webhosting security means protecting websites from hackers and malicious codes. But most of the time we forget to consider that websites security depends on a number of components such as server , application , database, scripts etc. One of the most important aspects of webhost security is to ensure continuous operation and disaster recovery of web services. This post aims to develop a broader picture that can help you to take necessary steps to ensure your sites continuous operation. [Read more…] about Webhosting Security-Best Practices and Concerns
Top 10 Cloud Computing Security Issues
From security perspective, not all types of data of an organization are  equally important for successful  business operation. Depending on business criticality, some  data need to be more secured. The enormous computing power of cloud attracts businesses to put their data in the cloud, but many of the businesses do not have any decisive policy that defines  which data to put in the cloud and what not to. This post highlights top 10 cloud security issues and  risks that an organization needs to consider before migrating their mission critical data to the cloud.
Cloud Privacy Issues and Questions for Users
Though various types of cloud are available to serve various types of customers, they all serve the same purpose-offer IT resources and services to customers accessible via web browser.  The hardware and software powering the clouds always stay behind the customer’s eye-thus when we hear the term “cloud†it papers to some of us as an black box. The aim of this post to help you decide how to choose a cloud service provider, irrespective of the size of your business. The following are the list of questions that you might ask to your cloud vendor: [Read more…] about Cloud Privacy Issues and Questions for Users
How to Protect Networks against Advanced Evasion Techniques(AET)
Evasion techniques evade the exiting network security devices such as signature based  IPS and firewalls to enter the internal network to deliver exploits in servers. Most of the Intrusion detection and prevention system rely on attack signatures to identify malicious strings in the traffic. The strings used to evade the devices are not malicious themselves. Their main purpose is to pass through IDS without triggering alarms. [Read more…] about How to Protect Networks against Advanced Evasion Techniques(AET)
Yahoo Mail Security Settings:How to Protect Your Account
To secure your Yahoo mail account you need to block the doors that are easy for anyone to get access to your account. This post will help you to modify your account settings to make your mailbox safer than ever. If you are a Yahoo mail user, then you are advised to use the following settings:
- Create a sign-in seal
- How to change password
- Monitor your account activity
- Recognize suspicious mail
- Dealing with SPAM mails
- Using SSL
- Reporting to Yahoo
- Change your habit of clicking links from unknown sources
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