Identity Management: The First Step in Protecting from the Inside Out Lately I have been starting down the path of Identity Management which is new for me in my security career and I wanted to share some things about Identity Management (IDM) in case there were those of you who might be thinking about what are the benefits of implementing an Identity Management (IDM) program within their company. The long definition of Identity Management (IDM) is the management of individual identifiers, their authentication, authorization, and privileges within or across system and enterprise boundaries. In short it’s the ability to provide provisioning and governance of users within your environment (Wikipedia). Identity Management applications are slowly gaining speed in the security realm as an important tool in managing provisions of an applications or to aid in gaining a handle on compliance and identity governance. As always thanks for reading and feel free to let me know your thoughts,
Read More – Knowledge is Power! (Proverbs 3:13-14) | Jenny Fisher │Equipping Women for Life Francis Bacon is credited with having coined “Knowledge is Power” in 1597. The power Bacon was referring to was to be in control of nature, however, it is apparent that over the centuries the phrase has come to have a different meaning which is that knowledge can give power to the one who has the knowledge. Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted “Science investigates, religion interprets. As a woman in the real estate corporate world, I understood that specific knowledge in the field, degrees, certifications and a long list of letters after my name would provide not only credibility but grant me privilege and elevated status within my profession. Throughout history every great man and woman of God had a common denominator and that was that they too had disciplined themselves to fix God’s Word in their hearts and minds, they also tied them as symbols on their foreheads, taught their children throughout the day and in all they did together. In His Service, Pastor Jenny
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How Brainwave Optimization Works - Brain Training Centers The human brain works on electricity, which is generated by the brain in order to complete its tasks. The electricity is measured in hertz. One hertz is one energy wave per second. The human brain functions utilizing between 0 to 60 hertz each and every second. In order to perform brainwave optimization with real time balancing™, an electroencephalogram (EEG) is performed. While the EEG is recording the brainwave frequencies from where the electrodes are placed, the computer is analyzing 128 soundings per second and running this analysis through algorithms to allow the computer to emit a sound that correlates with each brainwave frequency from 0 to 60. Accordingly, for the point where the electrode is recording, whenever the brain produces a frequency band of 1, it hears the same tone, and for 2 it hears another tone that is always the same when it produces a 2 wave frequency band. Accordingly, the subconscious is exactly aware of each neuron and nerve in the entire body.
Who is SophosLabs: Numaan Huq, Threat Researcher SophosLabs is at the center of Sophos. It's the place where highly skilled experts in the field work round the clock to build protection from the latest threats. But who works there? In the first of this series, we're talking to Numaan Huq, Senior Threat Researcher from SophosLabs Vancouver. I am originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I moved to Canada for school back in 2000. I have a BSc ('04) and MSc ('09) in Computer Science from the University of Victoria (UVic) in Victoria, BC. I've been an avid fan of fantasy novels since grade 7. I'm a big fan of soccer and Formula 1 racing. I can't live without my internet enabled phone. My friends say I cook tasty food, but then maybe they're just happy getting a free meal. I did an internship where I worked on programming Voice over IP (VoIP) phones. When I was looking for employment, the job at Sophos seemed like a natural extension of my experience. Currently I'm conducting research on malware that targets point of sale (PoS) systems.
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Anatomy of a cryptoglitch – Apple’s iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50 seconds A posse of computer scientists at the University of Erlangen in Germany has published a well-worth-reading paper about Wi-Fi security on Apple's iOS. In the hope that you'll end up reading the original paper, in order to give Messrs Metz, Freiling and Kurtz, the authors, the click-respect they deserve, I'll tell you briefly what they found. The scenario Apple iDevices with 3G support can be used as Wi-Fi access points. Many users turn this feature on and off while they're out-and-about, for example to help friends and colleagues jump online at the coffee shop. For this reason, iOS calls the feature "Personal Hotspot." Hotspots are meant to be easy to use, so Apple included a feature that lets you automatically generate a WPA passphrase that you can read out to your friends and that they can type in easily. Apple's iOS passphrase generator therefore creates a pronounceable string of up to six characters, and combines it with a four digit number for the sake of variety. The assumuptions Bingo!
Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.[1] Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine and allied disciplines, philosophy, physics, and psychology. It also exerts influence on other fields, such as neuroeducation[2] and neurolaw. Because of the increasing number of scientists who study the nervous system, several prominent neuroscience organizations have been formed to provide a forum to all neuroscientists and educators. History[edit] The study of the nervous system dates back to ancient Egypt. Early views on the function of the brain regarded it to be a "cranial stuffing" of sorts. The view that the heart was the source of consciousness was not challenged until the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates. Modern neuroscience[edit] Human nervous system
Hey board directors, help your companies fight cybercrime – and yes, it matters Boardrooms need to "wake up" to the danger of cybercrime, according to a recent report. The UK's ICSA, commissioned by the government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), issued the guidance document on how boards can better understand and cope with the threats posed to businesses by malware, hacking, cyber espionage and other digital dangers. Now, in security circles, "ICSA" generally refers to a leading security testing and certification body, formerly known as NCSA. Or, in some specialist cases, the International Chinese Statistical Association (for some reason, founded in San Francisco and registered as a non-profit in Delaware). But no, the ICSA we're talking about here is the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Their report didn't get much attention when it first appeared a few weeks ago. So, I hear you ask, what's the rumpus? Two things though. Second, their report (PDF) provides some pretty good advice.
how-to-be-productive_530adf38cc928_w1500 US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones US law enforcers are demanding a kill switch on our smartphones that would theoretically brick them after they're stolen. New York's top prosecutor, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, together with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, put out a statement on Thursday about the launch of an initiative devoted to drying up the secondary market on which stolen devices are sold. The initiative, dubbed Secure Our Smartphones (SOS), is a coalition of law enforcers from across the country: state attorneys general, district attorneys, major city police chiefs, state and city comptrollers, as well as public safety activists and consumer advocates. The announcement came on the same day that Gascón and Schneiderman co-hosted a "Smartphone Summit" with representatives from smartphone makers Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft. Schneiderman said in the statement that about 113 smartphones are stolen or lost every minute in the US, with many of the thefts turning violent.
What 5 Things can You Do to Change the System? | The Overthinker A few weeks ago a reader on this blog asked me an interesting question that I have been mulling over for some while: can I list 5 things everyone needs to do to change the system? It’s a tall order, but I decided to give it a bash. I don’t plan to prescribe anything here, and no one should take my word for it as I’m no paragon of purism. But I have at least dabbled in all that I will suggest, and would like to invite dialogue around those suggestions, and others. One glaring problem stares me down: how can we change the system when we don’t have the power? I figured my response should not just be things everyone should do, but things everyone can do – at least to some extent – and can scale up. I don’t think in those mechanistic, reductionist terms whereby every problem can be pared down to its constituent parts, and each part can be tackled separately so that the whole picture, when you put it back together again, looks rosy. 1. This comes in a series of steps. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Giving children non-verbal clues about words boosts vocabularies The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at the University of Chicago shows. By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research. It also explores the difficult-to-measure quality of non-verbal clues to word meaning during interactions between parents and children learning to speak. For example, saying, "There goes the zebra" while visiting the zoo helps a child learn the word "zebra" faster than saying, "Let's go to see the zebra." Differences in the quality of parents' non-verbal clues to toddlers (what children can see when their parents are talking) explain about a quarter (22 percent) of the differences in those same children's vocabularies when they enter kindergarten, researchers found. Scholars have found that the number of words youngsters hear greatly influences their vocabularies.