2010
04.13

This is a common question from our partners, clients, and others.  Penetration testing is often misunderstood, so we will provide you with our take.

FRSecure’s definition:

A penetration test is an active evaluation or assessment of information security controls.

Notice the key focus words in our definition:

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2010
03.15

Happy Monday!  Do you dread Mondays?  Don’t!  Change your attitude and embrace Monday like any other day.  Attitude leads to more health problems than most people realize.  Did you know that you are 70% more likely to have a heart attack on Monday morning than any other time of the week?  Think about it?  Make changes if you should!

Today, like every other day, we read about the things going on in our world.  In our case it’s the information security world.  We share some of the more interesting things we have read with our partners, clients, and readers.  Here is some of the news that we found interesting this week.

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2010
03.08

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting a very important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

It’s been a while since we’ve written on our blog.  We’ve still been reading, but we haven’t had time to write about it.  Business has been very good!

Last week we found ourselves in Louisville, Kentucky and Baltimore, Maryland.  We met with some outstanding people and experienced some interesting information security stuff.  Maybe we’ll share some of this "stuff" later on.  For those of you who may have missed it, we have a new law to comply with.  March 1st was the deadline for organizations to comply with Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00.  If you do any business in the state of Massachusetts, we strongly urge you to learn about this new law.

Well, let’s get to it.  Our Monday morning reading list…

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2010
02.09

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

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2010
02.08

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

Happy Monday!  We hope you enjoyed the Superbowl, if you watched it.  Lighter reading today.

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2010
02.05

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

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2010
02.04

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

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2010
02.03

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

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2010
02.02

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

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2010
02.01

Each and every day, we get up early and tune into the information security news of the day.  We check a variety of sources from all over the world.  We do this to help get us in the right frame of mind as information security consultants and to be the best information security consultants that we can in order to assist our clients.  We recognize that our clients have businesses to run and money to make.  Our role is help our clients to that end by protecting an important asset; their information. So what are we reading today?

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