One of the most discussed concepts in the Information Security world in recent history has been Zero Trust. Although many vendors claim to have products for implementing Zero Trust, an organization must not view them as an instant solution to achieving Zero Trust. Zero Trust should be viewed as a philosophy comprised of many controls…
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Merchants should spend more time doing what they are good at—i.e., selling and merchandising—versus trying to keep up with validating and maintaining PCI compliance. How can this be accomplished? Using either an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) or point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution for each point-of-sale (POS) system eliminates some of the complex hoops that merchants are required…
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In 2019, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (SSC) modified the Qualification Requirements for Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) employees. Prior to the modification, the requirements stipulated that QSA employees must hold either an Information Security certification or an audit certification, but now QSA employees must have a minimum of two (2) industry certifications:…
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Today we are excited to announce the launch of the TrustedSec Sysmon Community Guide. This guide is intended to be a one-stop shop for all things Sysmon. Our goal for the project is to help empower defenders with the information they need to leverage this great tool and to help the infosec community spread the…
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Passing with 24 yeas and 8 nays, effective as of November 2, 2018, Ohio Senate Bill 220 was touted as a way to use the ‘carrot approach’ for organizations to increase cybersecurity. This incentive was to encourage the shielding of data breach liability for organizations in certain situations. Excerpts from the bill are provided below….
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Recently, Gartner put out a report on the top 10 inquiries regarding security projects. The report is based on their analysis of over 10,200 client interactions covering relevant security and risk management topics from July 2018 through January 2019 (see the research here). Interestingly enough, Trustedsec has heard similar inquiries regarding product offerings in discussions…
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As the information security industry continues to mature, several things have changed, but many of the fundamental issues remain—even in the face of new technologies, threats, and regulations. Understanding and responding to current trends provides the opportunity for security and risk management leaders to better improve security, increase resiliency, and support the business. With renowned…
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Having spent a career working with Group Policies, I thought now might be a good time to give an overview of it and I felt like doing a little writeup about Group Policies. I especially want to highlight why having admin access to clients can be really bad. It is important that everyone understands the weaknesses…
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At TrustedSec, we get about 400-500 inquiries for security assessments every year. Some of the questions we still hear quite often are: Why does our company need to do a risk and security assessment? Why can’t we just do it ourselves? We already know we’re terrible—why do we need you to tell us that? There…
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In TrustedSec’s Advisory division, one question we often hear is, “how can we prioritize our information security efforts?” It is not surprising, as there are many things organizations can and often should be doing from an information security perspective, but there are only so many hours in the day, and so many dollars in the…
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