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		<title>Penetration Test Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Overcoming IT Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Office politics are always a joy to deal with.  So what happens when it affects or compromises security?  Good things don&#8217;t happen, that&#8217;s what.  Let&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Bigger Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people dismiss this notion, but the terrorist won The War on Terrorism on 9/11/2001.  The non extremist governments engaged in The War on Terrorism are just winning battles at this point and a new article by Jeremy Kirk from IDG News Service is the latest evidence of this.  The UK is pushing to pass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Reasonable Expectation of Privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who’s worked for a large corporation has probably heard “there is no reasonable expectation of privacy”.  This applies to computer data, conversations, telephone calls, etc.  The Federal Government is most known for this practice and with good reason.  They have secrets and data which can be gravely damaging to life and/or industries. The Chicago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Micro Essentials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The leading headline on major security news sites is about Microsoft&#8217;s new anti-virus and malware protection application called Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). Symantec has launched a marketing attack on MSE suggesting it is a mulligan for the failed OneCare program. Symantec states in their test of MSE they contracted with Dennis Technology Lab (DTL) in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=68</link>
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		<title>Unresolved SPAM Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A strange SPAM procedure started occurring a couple of months ago.  An email was sent to a government employee, which did work at one time, but a mail delivery failed message was returned.  We contacted this individual by phone and they stated a problem was ongoing with their email account.  A couple of days after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Business Focused Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=62</link>
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		<title>NSA IEM and IAM Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NSA INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM) and INFOSEC Evaluation Methodology (IEM) have been changed as of August 26, 2009.  The course has been revised and combined to create the Information Security Assessment Methodology (ISAM). Security Horizons has agreed to redesign the course and will be offering training.  Please note, if you received an IAM and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Executive Distress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Back end vs Front end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking with a the Deputy CISO of a government organization brought up the topic of front end and back end security.  What exactly is this?  If you search for these terms you will find this is another gray area in security and IT in general.   In application development, specifically web applications, the front end is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalsniper.com/blog/?p=50</link>
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