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The role of the healthcare CISO has expanded exponentially since the HITECH Act of 2009. CISOs were traditionally charged with the responsibility to maintain the IT environment consisting of applications and infrastructure. Today they are taking on an expanded organizational role consisting of innovation, operational responsibility and compliance. Although, the governance for compliancy...

There is no single set of instructions on how to run a penetration test, and no one manual on how to be a pen tester. The only real constant is that each job is a combination of preparation and improvisation to adapt and adjust to each environment’s quirks. So one of the best ways to learn and improve your own penetration testing techniques and strategies is from your peers, whether it be through...

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There are differences between each of the high-profile hacks you’ve seen in recent headlines, but there are also a few consistent characteristics of the modern breach. Inevitably, we discover known software vulnerabilities were left unpatched, networks were exposed and critical assets were open to attack.

Flavio De Cristofaro used to run our Security Consulting Services (SCS) group and long time password cracking enthusiast was recently asked to present at AppSecLatam2012 on Lessons learned from Recent Password Leaks. The following is his analysis on the exponential nature of password cracking costs. The exponential nature of password cracking costs Let’s assume for a moment that you suffered a...