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Billions of internet-connected devices are now online and talking amongst themselves. To secure them, vendors need to design them to avoid surprises they didn’t intend.
During his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama announced an Executive Order on Cyber-Security. The full text is available in many places, including Wired.
Soon, I will be moving the securitymetrics.org website to a simpler, secure and more usable system—the same platform that powers Markerbench. It should be done in time for Mini-Metricon (March 1st, 2013).
A few weeks ago I put together my annual Predictions blog post for the coming year. In that post and accompanying webinar, I suggested five emerging risk areas that CISOs need to pay attention to in the coming year.
Before the holidays I ran a quick, three-question, survey of the securitymetrics.org mailing list membership about the number of passwords people use. Here are the results, drawn from 51 responses (not bad, considering the list membership is about 400 people). I’d promised the respondents that I’d share the results… so here they are.