<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 11/21/2008 9:50:15 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/security-blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=1c45f4fa-0503-4e61-86db-8b0c38d2520f" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tom-Security</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:50:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Tom-Security</title><url>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog</link></image><item><title>Forensics and Incident Response Needed for Corporate IT Security</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/11/05/forensics-for-corporations-coming-to-the-forefront.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/11/05/forensics-for-corporations-coming-to-the-forefront.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 In today's corporate environment, security departments are starting to implement dedicated forensic professionals.  For the past 2 years in my Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator course CHFI , many of my students have commented that their company sent them to training on forensics because of  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:41:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CHFI/default.aspx">CHFI</category></item><item><title>CISSP Study Guide – Shon Harris</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/10/30/cissp-study-guide-–-shon-harris.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/10/30/cissp-study-guide-–-shon-harris.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 For those who have attended my class, Shon Harris is author of the All-In-One CISSP Guide and a resource I use for my class.  She has just posted a study guide and other resources on the Search Security Channel.
This is an excellent resource along with accompanying documentation for the exam.

 To ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:14:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CISSP Certification Process</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/10/30/cissp-certification-process.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/10/30/cissp-certification-process.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The certification process for many of today's IT certifications is for the most part usually straight forward.  A student will attend the class, study the material, take the test and then if they pass they receive their certification.  However there are some certifications (CISSP, CEH, ChFI) where t ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:59:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CISSP/default.aspx">CISSP</category></item><item><title>Cloud Computing – Can we secure it?</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/10/23/cloud-computing-–-can-we-secure-it.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/10/23/cloud-computing-–-can-we-secure-it.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the past year cloud computing has become a hot topic in IT.  Companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Google have all laid their claim to create new infrastructures, systems and applications  in support of this new frontier.  
For those who have been around, you may recognize from about ten years  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:22:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CEH/default.aspx">CEH</category></item><item><title>Rouge Employee + No Accountability = Potential Disaster</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/10/14/rouge-employee-+-no-accountability-=-potential-disaster.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/10/14/rouge-employee-+-no-accountability-=-potential-disaster.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In my recent CEH and CISSP classes I have been discussing with my students just what happened in July of this year  with San Fransisco's WAN network.  How did one employee hold an entire city's IT infrastructure hostage?    What lessons could every company in America learn from this issue?

 It al ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:27:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CEH/default.aspx">CEH</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CISSP/default.aspx">CISSP</category></item><item><title>Practicing Security Policies </title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/10/07/practicing-security-policies.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/10/07/practicing-security-policies.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Security Policies for  IT infrastructures are difficult to plan and most times difficult to implement in today's security conscious environment.  The focus on the entire enterprise creates several issues because of the complexity of the environment.  Every company wants to be secure and have everyth ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:56:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CISSP/default.aspx">CISSP</category></item><item><title>How Close is too Close when you get hacked?</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/09/21/how-close-is-too-close-when-you-get-hacked.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/09/21/how-close-is-too-close-when-you-get-hacked.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What happens when the world's greatest science experiment is the target of attackers?  The Large Hadron Collider, you know the particle separator capable of producing a black hole, website was hacked and defaced a few days ago.  
A few questions came to mind:
How close were the hackers to shutting ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:42:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CEH/default.aspx">CEH</category></item><item><title>Just how did Sarah Palin get her email hacked?</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/09/18/just-how-did-sarah-palin-get-her-email-hacked-1.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/09/18/just-how-did-sarah-palin-get-her-email-hacked-1.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin was not the victim of a technical hack, but of a Social Engineering technique that requires determination and a little bit of luck.

 http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha.html
	
 ]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:23:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CEH/default.aspx">CEH</category></item><item><title>Browser Wars  Bring New Competition and Security Concerns</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/09/07/browser-wars-bring-new-competition-and-security-concerns.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/09/07/browser-wars-bring-new-competition-and-security-concerns.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
In the past couple of years, the competition among the major web browsers has become very fierce. Companies in this competition realize there are marketing dollars to be had by getting consumers to use their browser. The two major players are Microsoft and Mozilla; between them they have about 90% ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:24:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/Browers/default.aspx">Browers</category></item><item><title>IE 8 addresses major security issues</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/2008/07/06/ie-8-addresses-major-security-issues.aspx</link><guid>/security-blog/archive/2008/07/06/ie-8-addresses-major-security-issues.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In my last blog on browser security, in the article I proposed looking at IE user settings for both business users and home users.  
 
 
After reading the following article, I downloaded IE 8 beta 2 and saw where some of the security settings that Firefox uses are being implemented by Microsoft.  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tom Pruett</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:11:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/security-blog/archive/tags/CEH/default.aspx">CEH</category></item></channel></rss>