Resources Tagged with 'Security'

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.

Intel IT is deploying desktop and mobile PCs that enable out-of-band access to clients.  This white paper explores the implementation, and the resulting reductions in client management costs and the improvements in IT security and inventory accuracy that result.

“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.

Is “social engineering” another name for a con game?  Is it hacking?  ID theft?  Pretexting? Or all of the above?  Intel IT’s Jackee Ireland, Director of Global Information Security, defines the problem and explains Intel’s three-fold strategy to protect their enterprise.

 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.

What are the pros and cons of the rich client vs. the thin client?  Dennis Morgan, Senior Information Security Specialist for Intel IT, explains why there are no easy answers.

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 enterprise.  Intel IT’s Manager of Risk and Threat Analysis Kurt Nelson tells how the game is played and what benefits IT can accrue from playing it.

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.

Six steps to “hook” a senior executive: 1) Search for lucrative targets; 2) Set up the front; 3) Offer the bait; 4) Set the hook; 5) Exploit the knowledge; and 6) Cover tracks and vanish. In this Intel Premier IT Professional local IT best practices seminar, Jerzy Run, Intel IT’s Director of Security Policy, Training and Awareness,  explains how “social engineering” uses these six steps to obtain confidential information, and what steps IT can take to protect their enterprise.