Information Security blog from Binoy Koonammavu

Middle East Cyberwar a review

January 25, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu Leave a Comment

In the last two weeks, there is a lot of hacking events occurred in the middle east region. Supporters of two countries have exchanged cyber warfare showing their might. In this event, there were lots of websites defaced, lot of data made available publicly, credit card numbers, Social Network and … [Read More...]

Anti-phishing – Detection

January 24, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu Leave a Comment

Phishing is a very common means of social engineering in these days. Despite the increased efforts by Banks and other organizations, there is still a good number of people fall victims of the phishing attacks. Some of the attacks are very targeted to some people and some others are for a wider … [Read More...]

How to be PCI compliant – small merchants

January 21, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu Leave a Comment

PCI DSS Compliance is a very hot topic these days. With the number of card data leakage incidents, every organization which cares about the reputation wants to know how to be PCI Compliant. Few days back someone asked me about it again, How to be PCI Compliant? My first answer to them is nothing … [Read More...]

Information Security predictions for 2012

January 20, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu 2 Comments

Security vendors and information security experts across the world publishes their predictions on the upcoming security trends. Year 2012 is no different from previous years and we have plenty of such security predictions for 2012. Here is a list of information security predictions for 2012 which I … [Read More...]

Information Security Risk Assessments

January 19, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu Leave a Comment

Information security risk assessment is an integral process in developing an effective information security management system. Unless the organization understand and document the information security status or the information security risk posture, they would not be able to perform risk mitigations. … [Read More...]

Data Loss Prevention best practices

January 13, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu Leave a Comment

Data Loss Vectors Insider threat being one among the top ten threats an organization faces, data loss prevention mechanisms play a key role in protecting the data within an organization. With all the avenues available to employees today to electronically expose sensitive data, the scope of the data … [Read More...]

Data Loss Prevention Solutions worth evaluating

January 9, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu Leave a Comment

12Content Aware DLP Solutions worth evaluating Data loss prevention is being considered as one among the key information security tools an enterprise needs. Here is a list of software vendors offering the Content-Aware Enterprise DLP solutions Symantec: Symantec DLP is one among the most … [Read More...]

Data loss prevention

January 9, 2012 By Binoy Koonammavu 1 Comment

Businesses are driven by data. Global organizations need more than network security to protect their confidential data and sensitive information.The protection of data itself is equally important. In any organization, data is being stored and transmitted across the systems, LAN, WAN and many … [Read More...]