My Writing

• Risk Management The Role of Rituals in Information Security
  Security practices often function as rituals—painstaking steps we follow out of habit that provide a sense of control. Rituals reduce stress by overloading working memory, blocking intrusive...
• Incident Response Discover Whether a Company Was Hacked - New Service
• Tools Analyze Memory of an Infected System With Mandiant's Redline
  Mandiant's free Redline tool triages potentially compromised hosts through live memory analysis, replacing Audit Viewer. It uses Memoryze to capture memory, assigns Malware Risk Index scores using...
• Assessments Security Assessment Testing for Client-Side Vulnerabilities
  Client-side penetration testing mimics real attacks by targeting unpatched desktop software via malicious emails or websites. Three approaches offer increasing intrusiveness: tracking link clicks to...
• Risk Management Herd Behavior in Cybersecurity: The Good and The Bad
  Cybersecurity exhibits herd-like behavior, with both benefits and drawbacks. Higher vigilance by some professionals lets others focus elsewhere, which strengthens collective defense. But anxiety is...
• Tools Remotely Find Outdated Adobe Reader With HBGary AcroScrub
  HBGary's free AcroScrub utility remotely scans Windows hosts via WMI to find outdated Adobe Reader installations. During malware outbreaks exploiting Reader vulnerabilities, such lightweight...