5 Favorite Security Reads of the Week

Here’s a listing of my 5 favorite on-line security articles, papers and blog posts that I read in the past week:

NIST SP 800-144: Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing Draft by Wayne Jansen and Timothy Granc (PDF)
How to Start a Spam Trap by Mark Adams
Spambot Evolution 2011 by SecureWorks
Top 10 Botnet Threat Report - 2010 by Damballa
Exploit Kits – A Different View by Marco Preuss and Vicente Diaz

Also, during the past week I published the following posts:

Looking forward to next week!

For more recommendations, see my earlier security reads of the week.

— Lenny Zeltser

Updated February 19, 2011

Lenny Zeltser

About the Author

I transform ideas into successful outcomes, building on my 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. As the CISO at Axonius, I lead the security program to earn customers' trust. I'm also a Faculty Fellow at SANS Institute, where I author and deliver training for incident responders. The diversity of cybersecurity roles I've held over the years and the accumulated expertise, allow me to create practical solutions that drive business growth.