28May2011 (UTC +8)
When locking down your PC, you may want to take more tips from this news... ============================================================= MAX SECURITY INMATES HELP LOCK DOWN PRISON NETWORK --With 23 hours a day to test the system, inmates serve as a red team By William Jackson May 25, 2011 When the Colorado Department of Corrections designed a high-speed network to deliver services to the cells of prisoners who are locked up for most of the day, they needed to make sure it was secure. “We kept it very open and simple,” said John Jubic, the Department of Corrections’ end-user solutions manager. “The security behind it isn’t simple.” As it turned out, when the facility opened in September 2010, the prisoners were both a security liability and asset. “They were our beta testers,” Jubic said. “With 23 hours a day to work on it, they broke it a lot.” [More details] http://GCN.com/articles/2011/05/30/colorado-prison-sidebar.aspx ============================================================= Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA http://www.laggui.com ( Manila & California ) Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer PGP fingerprint = 0117 15C5 F3B1 6564 59EA 6013 1308 9A66 41A2 3F9B _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
