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Facilitate easy detection of the OpenSSL Heartbeat vulnerability in your enterprise

NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is likely to become the basis for what's considered commercially reasonable in regards to securing an organization’s infrastructure. For this reason alone companies should pay close attention to the CSF and, even if they don’t follow it completely, should at least understand where they are deficient and why.

In this blog series on SecurityWeek, Tenable CSO Marcus Ranum advises security professionals on how they can create and share metrics in their jobs. These metrics can create better understanding and awareness about the success of their approaches, as well as allow them to build support for programs and funding requests.

When you start your metrics program, you will find that a great deal of information can be gleaned from existing data that gets stored in various places....

While most of my posts focus on malware attacking systems today, the history of malware is a fascinating topic that provides insights into the current landscape. As one of the authors of the Avien Malware Defense Guide, I contributed to the book's chapter on history and will be leveraging and expanding on some of that content here to give context to where we are today.