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Cloud Computing Certification

By Jim, on 2 May, 2012

I have recently obtained two certifications in cloud computing, the CloudU Certificate and the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) and thought I’d share my thoughts on each.

Compliant Does Not Equal Secure.

By Jim, on 12 April, 2012

On the 30 March Global Payments Inc. announced that it had suffered a data breach that had led to the Track 2 (i.e., the primary account number, expiration date, service code, PIN and CVV number) data of approximately 1.5 million credit cards being “exported” from its North American payment processing system.

Changes to the NZISM in v1.01

By Jim, on 26 August, 2011

In June the GCSB released version 1.01 of the New Zealand Information Security Manual. However, they have not published a list of changes from v1.0.

We are on the move!

By Jim, on 4 July, 2011

From Monday the 18 July we will be located in our new offices at Level 4, Petherick Tower, 38 Waring Taylor Street, Wellington, 6011.

Do you Google yourself?

By Jim, on 30 June, 2011

Whilst reading through the New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) I came across this recommendation in section 9.4 Using the Internet within 9. Personnel security:

Integrating Security Architecture into Enterprise Architecture

By Jim, on 11 February, 2011

It sounds almost trite, but the only practical approach to developing a security architecture for an organisation is to start at the most abstract level and consider what the business drivers and requirements are. This is fundamental to any approach for developing an organisation-wide strategy.

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