The document discusses how to maximize the value of security investments through vulnerability management and compliance programs. It emphasizes doing something to improve security, such as comprehensive scanning, and proving the program's effectiveness through metrics and reporting. The document provides questions to assess a program and ensure goals are understood. It also discusses automation, integrating tools, and measuring maturity to track improvement over time.
The Digital Age: How to get the most out of mobile devices in the legal envir...e-ternity
Learn more about:
* Marketplace statistics
* Tablet’s, Smartphones and Phablet’s. What are the best devices out there?
* Squeezing efficiencies out of powerful business mobiles devices
* Great iPad and Android apps
* How important is the data on my Mobile device?
* How do I protect my mobile device from data loss?
In this presentation, Peter Farrow of Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union shares the basics of “Lean for Credit Unions.” He also discusses some of the reasons Randolph-Brooks considered Lean and ways Lean can be beneficial to any credit union.
Peter presents three detailed case studies from Randolph-Brooks and the results they achieved:
– Branch Channel Lending
– Call Center Member Service
– Branch Workforce Management
He gives an overview of Lean in IT and a few reasons Randolph-Brooks chose to implement Lean in IT. Peter also shares some helpful tips for getting started with your own improvement initiatives.
The Digital Age: How to get the most out of mobile devices in the legal envir...e-ternity
Learn more about:
* Marketplace statistics
* Tablet’s, Smartphones and Phablet’s. What are the best devices out there?
* Squeezing efficiencies out of powerful business mobiles devices
* Great iPad and Android apps
* How important is the data on my Mobile device?
* How do I protect my mobile device from data loss?
In this presentation, Peter Farrow of Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union shares the basics of “Lean for Credit Unions.” He also discusses some of the reasons Randolph-Brooks considered Lean and ways Lean can be beneficial to any credit union.
Peter presents three detailed case studies from Randolph-Brooks and the results they achieved:
– Branch Channel Lending
– Call Center Member Service
– Branch Workforce Management
He gives an overview of Lean in IT and a few reasons Randolph-Brooks chose to implement Lean in IT. Peter also shares some helpful tips for getting started with your own improvement initiatives.
Leveraging Lean Thinking in Credit Unions: Three Ways to Improve Member Service While Reducing Costs.
In today's competitive environment, member service is a top priority for credit unions. At the same time, there is an increased pressure to do more with less and reduce costs. The adoption of Lean principles and tools provides an opportunity for credit unions to engage employees and simultaneously improve member service and reduce costs.
Learn the basics of Lean and how it can be applied to credit unions. Hear from Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union about how they are leveraging Lean methods to make significant improvements in:
* Branch Channel Lending
* Call Center Member Service
* Branch Resource Management
2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise - The BeforeSoCo Partners
First of a four-part series on how to roll out 2.0 in the large enterprise. This presentation focuses on the "Before" (pre-implementation) and highlights a planned rollout and an emergent rollout.
For more information on The 2.0 Adoption Council, please visit our web site. http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com
Dave Doyle needed a video surveillance solution to monitor activity and address
an outbreak of inventory and cashier-related shrinkage at his two Grande
Prairie Pita Pit stores. Dave turned to SNAP Security, a member organization of the Rogers Data
Alliance Program that provides mobile network video security solutions for
retail customers.
RAMS 2013 Calculating roi when implementing a dfr program by mike silvermanAccendo Reliability
Presentation given at RAMS 2013
Three-phase inverters are physically large, complex and expensive elements of major solar power generation systems. The inverter converts DC power created by the photovoltaic (PV) panels to AC power suitable for adding to the power grid.
The inverters’ reliability testing is a complex task and relies on reliability block diagrams (RBD), vendor and field data, plus selecting accelerated life tests (ALT) based on critical elements of the product.
This paper illustrates a case study that developed an RBD, used field and vendor data, and includes the design and use of two ALTs. The result is a working framework or model that provides a reasonable estimate of the expected lifetime performance of the inverter. While any project similar to this, is always a work in progress, the examination of the decisions and inputs for the model proves valuable for the continued improvement of the model and resulting life predictions. This project provides an excellent real life example of reliability estimation having a multitude of constraints including: sample size, test duration, and field data, thus having to rely on all sources of available data starting from field and vendor data to theoretical component reliability calculations, ALT plan execution, failure analysis, and finally summarizing the results using RBD to estimate product expected lifetime. At the time of writing this paper, based on completion of system level ALT, an availability of 99.97% is valid over a 10 year period according to southern Ontario weather as the main installation base. This will be revisited once subsystem ALT is completed.
This presentation covers:
- Definition of APM
- Comparison of APM approaches & vendors (scenario, agent and network-based)
- Challenges of Cloud & Virtualization for APM vendors
- Performance Vision's Virtual Appliance offering
For more information, please visit: http://www.securactive.net
Leveraging Lean Thinking in Credit Unions: Three Ways to Improve Member Service While Reducing Costs.
In today's competitive environment, member service is a top priority for credit unions. At the same time, there is an increased pressure to do more with less and reduce costs. The adoption of Lean principles and tools provides an opportunity for credit unions to engage employees and simultaneously improve member service and reduce costs.
Learn the basics of Lean and how it can be applied to credit unions. Hear from Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union about how they are leveraging Lean methods to make significant improvements in:
* Branch Channel Lending
* Call Center Member Service
* Branch Resource Management
2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise - The BeforeSoCo Partners
First of a four-part series on how to roll out 2.0 in the large enterprise. This presentation focuses on the "Before" (pre-implementation) and highlights a planned rollout and an emergent rollout.
For more information on The 2.0 Adoption Council, please visit our web site. http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com
Dave Doyle needed a video surveillance solution to monitor activity and address
an outbreak of inventory and cashier-related shrinkage at his two Grande
Prairie Pita Pit stores. Dave turned to SNAP Security, a member organization of the Rogers Data
Alliance Program that provides mobile network video security solutions for
retail customers.
RAMS 2013 Calculating roi when implementing a dfr program by mike silvermanAccendo Reliability
Presentation given at RAMS 2013
Three-phase inverters are physically large, complex and expensive elements of major solar power generation systems. The inverter converts DC power created by the photovoltaic (PV) panels to AC power suitable for adding to the power grid.
The inverters’ reliability testing is a complex task and relies on reliability block diagrams (RBD), vendor and field data, plus selecting accelerated life tests (ALT) based on critical elements of the product.
This paper illustrates a case study that developed an RBD, used field and vendor data, and includes the design and use of two ALTs. The result is a working framework or model that provides a reasonable estimate of the expected lifetime performance of the inverter. While any project similar to this, is always a work in progress, the examination of the decisions and inputs for the model proves valuable for the continued improvement of the model and resulting life predictions. This project provides an excellent real life example of reliability estimation having a multitude of constraints including: sample size, test duration, and field data, thus having to rely on all sources of available data starting from field and vendor data to theoretical component reliability calculations, ALT plan execution, failure analysis, and finally summarizing the results using RBD to estimate product expected lifetime. At the time of writing this paper, based on completion of system level ALT, an availability of 99.97% is valid over a 10 year period according to southern Ontario weather as the main installation base. This will be revisited once subsystem ALT is completed.
This presentation covers:
- Definition of APM
- Comparison of APM approaches & vendors (scenario, agent and network-based)
- Challenges of Cloud & Virtualization for APM vendors
- Performance Vision's Virtual Appliance offering
For more information, please visit: http://www.securactive.net
Secure Delivery Center, Eclipse Open SourceGenuitec, LLC
This non-intrusive software management and delivery technology is easy-to-use and installs right into the enterprise by asking simple policy questions about open source governance and IDE usage. For Eclipse, MyEclipse and IBM Rational.
Adaptive software development processes epitomized by Agile methodologies are based on continual improvement – incremental changes that emerge as teams iterate and learn about the product they are developing. This appears to conflict with the world of the program office, responsible for defining the software development lifecycle (SDLC), in which a stable and repeatable development process with well-defined ownership and controls is a common objective. Using recent examples in which agile methods have been successfully introduced into large organizations with existing SDLCs, we consider the difficulties of creating a verifiable process when the process itself is continually being modified, and look at how software development can be managed and controlled without stifling the benefits of adaptive software development processes.
Integrating Novell Access Governance Suite with Novell Identity ManagerNovell
This session will discuss the reasons and methods for integrating Novell Access Governance Suite with your existing Novell Identity Manager implementation. You will learn how to implement the integration and what benefits you will realize from doing so.
2022 DOI SKILup Days_Your Developers Decide Your Security Posture_Not Your Se...Turja Narayan Chaudhuri
In many traditional enterprises, security is regarded as the responsibility of the CISO/security office. Yet most such security initiatives fail at scale when adopted by hundreds of teams across an enterprise.
In today's world, the key to your enterprise is in the hands of your developers. No security initiative will succeed unless you involve the development team and ensure that the security processes and frameworks do not conflict with developer experience or productivity.
Only by pure collaboration between dev and security teams can we achieve a truly secure organization, that is resilient to vulnerabilities and threats of all shapes and sizes.
This session will help you to understand why security initiatives should be designed with developers in mind, not the other way around.
Key takeaways:
1. Understand why developer experience should be a priority for engineering teams to scale across an enterprise
2. Understand how DevSecOps initiatives play a part in shifting security left and putting it at the hands of developers, where it belongs
3. Appreciate that security is no longer a siloed function or independent unit within the enterprise.
Even with the best security, every organization will eventually suffer some kind of security breach. When IT professionals suspect something “phishy” is going on with their network, they need to be able to take immediate action to limit damage while preserving critical evidence that will help law enforcement catch the bad guys. Join John Alexander, nCircle’s Product Manager, as he steps you through basic training in computer forensics.
This presentation covers:
* How to handle evidence in order to preserve the chain of custody
* How to thwart the most common techniques cyber criminals use to cover their tracks
* When to call law enforcement and how to work with them effectively
Download the presentation recording here: http://www.ncircle.com/index.php?s=registration_registernew&src=Computer-Forensics-Bootcamp
nCircle's Craig Young presented his research on the Google 2-step verification system at BSides San Francisco 2013.
More information:
http://community.ncircle.com/t5/VERT-Security-Research-Blog/Google-Jacking-A-Review-of-Google-s-2-Step-Verification-BSides/ba-p/7876
nCircle held a Webinar on 6/7 with Mike McKay Senior Sales Engineer at nCircle - The theme was to give smaller organizations the power to have a big organization security program.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
[Seth] “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” “Beginning is half of the whole.” You can’t wish improvements to security; you have to take action. Whether that’s making a plan or taking the next step in the plan, the important thing is to do something.Some things are more easily accomplished than others. In vulnerability and compliance management, is there ONE THING you can do this week to improve your security program? If you gave it some thought you could probably come up with a half-dozen near-term accomplishments.
[Seth]But it’s not enough to take some action. You have to demonstrate not only that you’ve done something, but that what you’ve done has the desired effect. Whether this is a report to the executive committee or a chart for the technical staffs, you have to demonstrate that the work being performed is worthwhile, effective, and important to folks who are paying for it and folks who are performing it.In the context of vulnerability and compliance management, this means reporting. What data are you collecting about your program, and what information are you communicating to the program’s stakeholders? What improvements can you make in the reporting process so that it will be easier for you to show future successes?
[Bill] Refresh your memory: why did you implement a vulnerability and compliance program in the first place? Is your current process meeting your needs? If not, it’s time to change the game. Where are you on the maturity model? Are there improvements you can make to any one of the six components that will drive you towards the original goals?
[Bill] This represents a capability maturity process area focused on vulnerability and compliance management. There are six general categories that should be monitored. Moving clockwise around the spider graph:Coverage: are all your assets being scanned for vulnerabilities and compliance? Are there segments of your network environment that are off limits or otherwise outside your view? Do new networks and new devices get added to scan profiles promptly?Scan Depth: are you using credentialed scanning to get an “inside look” at the assets? This is advantageous to determine the actual security posture of the device.Frequency: how often are you scanning? More frequently = better intelligence.Reporting: are your reports provided to all levels of management and across your lines of business? Do they convey accurate information that will promote the desired response?Remediation: is your organization prepared to remediate the vulnerabilities and noncompliances found by the assessments? How responsive are the groups tasked with this mission?Currency: do you keep the scanning profiles and vulnerabilities databases up to date to ensure you’re scanning for the latest vulnerabilities?
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[Bill] This is the vulnerability / compliance process wheel. It starts with a design, goes through planning and execution, and then reporting and remediation of found vulnerabilities and noncompliances. Based on the lessons learned during one cycle, the design is refined, new capabilities are introduced, and the cycle begins again.Key to the success is appropriate communication at all stages.
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[Seth]Your work as a security professional can seem invisible – especially when you have no crises. It’s important to ensure that you’ve got the appropriate level of visibility – and for the right reasons – at all times. Reporting can be an effective way to communicate your goals and the performance of your security program – whether it’s to highlight successes and share praise, or to focus on an opportunity for improvement and areas that need attention. It is vital that the reports both reach and are target to specific audiences – an overly-technical report may not be suitable for inclusion at an executive board meeting, for example. Likewise, a high-level report will not give your security practitioners and other technical staff actionable information that will help them achieve your security program goals.
[Seth]This is an example of a maturity model report covering two quarters. It is appropriate for senior management and will show both progress towards some of the maturity goals you’ve set as well as the gaps where you might need some help from other stakeholders.In this example, the program has seen great progress in remediation, currency, and coverage, but needs to improve scan depth – perhaps by using credentialed scans. Frequency of scans has actually decreased in effectiveness from the previous quarter, so some analysis would probably be of benefit there. Reporting continues to be ok but improvements are certainly possible.
This is a high level representation of total vulnerability score – called the “Waher index” after its creator, AlexWaher. Here, it provides feedback on the relative vulnerability risk and remediation effects across two networks within the company: the business side and the operations network. Key messages are provided at the right, but the conclusion is clear: the effort spent remediating vulnerabilities in the operations network since September has resulted in a huge decrease in the vulnerability score (and, by implication, the associated risk on that network).This report is good to provide a quick snapshot of activity and progress to peers who have staff members involved in scanning and remediation activities.
This report breaks out average vulnerability scores by technology and by location, and is intended for use by IT management. At a glance, it is clear that Toronto needs some help reducing vulnerabilities in its Windows server environment, while San Francisco and Munich need to concentrate on both Windows and UNIX. In addition, it appears that the endpoint security program in San Francisco is not as effective as it is in Toronto and Munich.Reports like this can help get resources aligned across location and business/technology functions.
This report is intended for IT staff – both security and operations. It provides a quick list of the most significant vulnerabilities within an environment based on the relative weighted risk (vulnerability score multiplied by the number of hosts, as a percentage of the total vulnerability score across all hosts and vulnerabilities). It is intended to help prioritize remediation resources to focus on the most critical issues first, and will allow security analysts to take a “macro” view as suggested by the key messages; in particular, that strong credentials represent 4 of the top 10 and almost 55% of the total vulnerability score, and that applying 4 Windows patches would provide an immediate score reduction of almost 12%.