2015-018- How can ITIL help you flesh out your infosec program?

When you're faced with major projects, or working to understand why your IDS fails every day at the same time, there must be a way to work that out. Or when you must do the yearly business continuity failover, you need a process oriented framework to track and ensure changes are committed in a sane, orderly manner.

ITIL is a completely versatile, flexible framework that scales with your organization. You can also use it with your software development lifecycle. You can use it to enhance major projects and security initiatives.

Tim Wood joins us for the second part of his interview. We discuss Change Management, Problem Management and making inter-departmental SLAs a reality for proper management of changes.

 

Tim Wood's Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-qfQ-gWynwiVS0zLTZidml0VzA/view?usp=sharing (view only)

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2015-017: History of ITIL, and integrating Security

Much of InfoSec and Compliance is all about processes, procedures, controls, audits, and the proper management of all of these.  To do so, you need a proper framework to make these as seamless as possible. ITIL is one of these types of frameworks.

We introduce Mr. Tim Wood on the podcast, who has over 20 years of ITIL experience and began ITIL implementations in banks and Healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. He currently works with different industries to change culture and make an ITIL a reality.

This week, we go over the History of ITIL, and understand the various incarnations from v1.0 to v3.0. You quickly understand where security will start fitting into all those facets of the ITIL framework.

 

Tim Wood's Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-qfQ-gWynwiVS0zLTZidml0VzA/view?usp=sharing (view only)

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2015-016: Special Interview: Cybrary.it

Special interview this week! On the heels of their uber successful KickStarter campaign, we brought co-founder Ryan and one of the technical editors Anthony in to discuss what Cybrary is. We also discuss ways you can leverage it in your own business to get quality security awareness training, as well as train up your employees on infosec topics that can benefit your company and employees. You can find out more at http://www.cybrary.it

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2015-015: 2015 Verizon PCI report

It's that time of year again...  when all the reports come out that shows how various industries did over the last year.

Brakeing Down Security went over the results of the Verizon PCI report.  Did companies do worse this year, or could they have actually improved? Listen to our analysis, and what companies can do to learn from this, and how you can use this report to help get a leg up when your QSA comes calling.

 

 http://www.verizonenterprise.com/pcireport/2015/

 

Pay IRS using "Snapcard": http://www.coindesk.com/pay-taxes-bitcoin-snapcard-pay-irs/

 

According to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), virtual currencies are treated as "Property": http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Virtual-Currency-Guidance

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SANS Top 20 Controls - #12 and #13

We continue our trek down the list of SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls this week with #12 and #13 - Boundry Defense, and Controlled use of Administrative Privileges.  Learn what you can do to shore up your network defenses, and how to handle admin privileges... When to give that kind of access, and how to make privileged access as secure as possible while still allowing administrators to do their work.

 

 

https://www.sans.org/media/critical-security-controls/CSC-5.pdf

 

 

http://www.openspf.org/

 

https://4sysops.com/

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2015-013-Hackerspaces and their sense of community

We invited the organizers of the "TheLab.ms", a Dallas, Texas based hacker/makerspace on the podcast to talk about why they wanted to start a makerspace, the costs and plans to setup a hacker space, and some of the things you can do with a makerspace. We also understand the sense of community and the learning environment gained from these places. 

If you are looking to start a 'space in your area, or looking to understand why they are needed in a community, you'll want to listen to Roxy, Sean, and Jarrod talk about the highs and lows and even some of the gotchas in setting up a space.

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2015-012-Fill In podcast with Jarrod and Lee!

Mr. Boettcher went on vacation and was volunteering for Austin Bsides this week, and I needed to do a podcast, so I enlisted the aid of Lee Brotherston and Jarrod Frates discuss some important topics.  We discuss the seemingly short talent pool for IT/IS positions.  We talk about the ROWHAMMER vulnerability and how it may affect your organization. Additionally, we talk about how the NTP protocol is being maintained by one person and what can be done to help with that, as it is a critical piece of Internet Infrastructure, and finally, we figure out why PGP/GPG is not user-friendly, and if there are ways to make it better, or if it needs to be replaced permanently.

 

News of the week

1. RowHammer -

http://www.darknet.org.uk/2015/03/rowhammer-ddr3-exploit-what-you-need-to-know/

 

2. Lack of hire-able people in IT/IS - per Leviathan Sec report. https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/scarcity-of-cybersecurity-expertise/

 

3. NTP maintained by one guy ‘Father Time’

http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432

 

4. Moxie Marlinspike’s GPG/PGP rant: Perfection ruined the goal http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

 

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