Research suggests the average cost of penetration testing is $200 per hour, as of April 2010. Most forum posts, which are really RFI’s and RFP’s, ask the wrong question. People ask in general how much a pen test costs and the answer is always, it depends. Finally, several individuals broke the costs down to show [...]
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Overcoming IT Politics
Office politics are always a joy to deal with. So what happens when it affects or compromises security? Good things don’t happen, that’s what. Let’s face it, office politics occur in every office regardless of the industry. It could be corporate, non-profit, government, military or whatever else you can imagine. Just like traffic on the [...]
Business Focused Security
While reading the details of the amusing cat fight between Google and Microsoft over the Chrome Frame plug-in, we noticed an interesting white paper available on Network World’s page. Seven Practice Steps for Federal Cyber Security FISMA Compliance has some interesting guidance and talks about an important point in security. IT and digital security are [...]
Executive Distress
The most important aspect of handling threat or risk is time. It will take time and considerable resources to track the threat down. One of the problems with this time factor is executives who operate in their own dimension. If they are getting beat up by the stakeholders they are going to want answers and [...]
