It’s evident throughout history – inside jobs. Aside from nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction, cyber attacks pose the single greatest threat to US security – and they are growing more and more difficult to prevent. One clear indicator of the threat is the sheer volume of breaches. Cyber attacks on federal computer systems have increased more than 250% over the last two years, according to the Homeland Security Department. Federal computing resources are under constant threats — not only from the outside, but also from trusted partners and internal users. Cyber attacks are a clear and present danger and the potential for both accidental and deliberate breaches of sensitive information is a growing concern. Innocent but careless employee actions can set the table for attacks by more malicious parties. In many cases, the threats are inadvertent, with users unwittingly introducing harmful viruses to your agency or allowing sensitive data to be leaked.  But whether or not there’s malice, the damage from breaches can be great.

Join me for a discussion on Monday, March 29 @ 1:30 pm ET on ways to protect your environment from the inside threat.  We’ll talk about how you can not only improve your security posture, but also meet regulatory and statutory guidelines during audits and reviews.  Plus, you’ll also learn about forensics and tools you’ll need when a breach does occur to minimize the losses and downtime.

You can register here. I’m looking forward to hearty discussion.

On a completely unrelated topic, I am helping my better half create a website for our daughter’s gymnastics team.  My hosting provider uses Fantastico, and I was able to give her a large selection of content management systems to choose from.  Which one did she select?  Joomla.  I thought it was interesting that of all the systems that are out there, and that she could selectthat she chose that one.  I’ll periodically post updates of how she does with the site, and what the gotchas have been, as I’m sure there will be a few.

What happens when Texas meets technology? You get this:
http://www.zazzle.com/turborambler

I haven’t posted in a while, but came across this, and found it very, very amusing.  I’m not sure that I’d buy a trucker hat, no matter it says, but the mugs are cool – I like mugs.  And “word has it” that more things will be added . . . I’ll be watching.