Practical Information Security

Article on CNN today http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/31/cybercrime.eu.ap/index.html talking about new discussions between EU and NATO on information security issues (data protection, ID theft, "cybercrime", etc.) this is key because there are few functioning laws that are common between the members of NATO (the EU has some, but specific countries still have different laws, processes, Germany for instance). Multi-national companies have a lot of challenges with this type of thing, I imagine governments have similar challenges. Having seen the kind of activity that is originating from Europe, I do hope they start to pursue some of the attacks. Also - New version (1.0.0) of wireshark is available now, there are some security fixes. ->Pierre

Found out about this tool (version of TCPDump for windows) http://www.microolap.com/products/network/tcpdump/ Over at another Blog http://markremark.blogspot.com/ Always good to have in to event of an investigation, etc. Other tools to be aware of for incident response, let's start with Windows - HELIX - http://www.e-fense.com/helix/ Wireshark - http://www.wireshark.org/ Those are a good place to start, of course each incident is likely unique and may require specific tools to investigate. ->Pierre

The purpose of this blog will be for me to provide some practical information security tips and tricks to the public, other information security professionals, or anyone who is interested. I am an Information Security professional and have been working in various aspects of corporate Information Security for some time. Also looking for topic suggestions or questions. Please let me know if you have something you'd like to know more about, regarding any aspect of Information Security. ->Pierre