Resources Tagged with 'risk'

Probing the pros and cons of thin and rich clients in fending off increasingly sophisticated security attacks, Intel’s Malcolm Harkins, presents in this CIO webinar.  Harkins, who drives the adoption and continued operation of controls to mitigate information risks to acceptable business levels at Intel, focuses on the evolution of attacks and why there are no easy answers before providing his insights on security solutions.

“Understanding the nature and abilities of our attackers is essential for effective security, but our day-to-day duties require us to think like defenders.”  No, this is not a quote from the Homeland Security operations manual, but a preamble for this IT security wargames presentation by Tim Casey, Senior IT InfoSec Analyst.  Wargaming focuses the attention of multiple experts toward a specific attack goal.  Casey gives the details at a recent Miami Intel Premier IT Professional seminar.

 Find what the bad guys are looking for.  That’s the philosophy behind Intel IT’s wargame exercises in which they ruthlessly attack their own data centers.  Intel IT’s Senior InfoSec Analyst Tim Casey tells how the game is played and what benefits IT can accrue from playing it.

 Mark Goldsmith, Senior Security Specialist with Intel IT, takes a look at the evolution of risk assessments, at the variety of methods of managing business risk and at Intel’s efforts to align to industry standards.  Then he describes the Information Security Risk Assessment method and the General Business Risk Assessment method and demonstrates a tool to help other IT organizations wishing to do similar assessments.

With security attacks now coming from multiple vectors, how can IT best deal with this “third generation” of attacks?  Tom Weisser, Senior Incident Commander for Intel IT, describes how Intel struggles to keep its security posture balanced, and explains how a layered approach can provide a cost-effective solution.

Intel IT’s Timothy Casey, CISSP and Senior InfoSec Specialist, explains why attacking your own data enterprise can be a good thing.  It  provides intensive training to security professionals in advanced offensive threat design and it provides a detailed set of attack scenarios against an asset, useful for identifying complex, multidimensional vulnerabilities. Find out about Intel’s approach in this recent Intel Premier IT Professional IT best practices seminar presentation.

Taking a look at the evolution of risk assessments, Mark Goldsmith, a Senior Security Specialist with Intel IT, goes on to explain how Intel has consolidated their methods to bring consistency to the risk assessment process.  He also demonstrated a risk assessment tool available for download to Intel Premier IT Professional members. 

After mapping out the “perfect storm” of business risk, Steve Watson, IT Crisis Manager for Intel Information Technology, explains how Intel is working to balance the security of the digital environment.  How much open access do you allow vs. locking everything down? 

It’s your choice really explains Jeff Moriarty, CISSP, Security Program Manager for Intel Information Risk and Security at a recent Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminar.  Neither the rich client nor the thin client model is better and Moriarty explains the pros and cons of each.

Intel IT uses wargaming as an risk assessment methodology to provide actionable information about real world threats and vulnerabilities to their computing environment. This recent presentation from the Minneapolis Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar, presented by Jackee Ireland, Director of Global Information Security Risk and Threat Analysis for Intel IT, has the details.