March 13, 2015
Security Control Spotlight: The PM Family
The Beatles were comprised of how many musicians? Easy, right? They were called the “Fab Four”, so there were definitely 4.
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March 11, 2015
RMF Transition: What do I Really Need to Know?
A year after DoDI 8510.01 kicked off the DIACAP to RMF transition, here is what DoD system owners really need to know.
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February 1, 2015
Installing pyrit with GPU Support on OS X
In this post Colin walks you through getting Nvidia CUDA support enabled on your OS X device and illustrates the basics of how to use it with pyrit and cpyrit.
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January 27, 2015
Spotlight: Information Security Continuous Monitoring
No longer just a technical issue, instead a strategic program to manage cybersecurity risk. Targeted cyber attacks are a strategic organizational problem.
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November 17, 2014
Nothing Neutral About Net Neutrality
In the article, Colin offers his opinion on Net Neutrality.
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November 13, 2014
Security Control Spotlight: By the Numbers
In this issue’s “Spotlight”, we’re not going to focus on any specific controls or families, but rather on a comparison of RMF controls and DIACAP controls.
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October 16, 2014
Spotlight: Transitioning to the Risk Management Framework (RMF)
With the publication of revised DoD Instruction 8510.01, adoption of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) by DoD has begun.
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September 9, 2014
OSX Airport CLI Tool - Not Just for Airport APs
In this Post Colin explores the seldom mentioned OSX CLI airport utility and many of its WLAN configuration and and information gathering features.
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July 21, 2014
Security Control Spotlight: Organization-Defined Parameters
Under RMF, NIST SP 800-53 is the primary source for security controls. If we compare these controls to the DoDI 8500.2 IA controls used in DIACAP, several…
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