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Thoughts and ideas (and news) on information and IT Security

Upcoming Security Events in Florida

There are several upcoming information security events in Florida that some may not be aware of.First up is the South Florida ISACA Chapter's annual WOW event. This year its the thirteenth year ...

2020 Update

Here we are in 2020, and there are many updates to go over. I plan on further postings on several of these items, and need to get back into blogging here with ...

2019 Update on frameworks, standards, and regulations for infosec

At the 2019 BSides Tampa Security conference I did a talk on 2019 Updates on frameworks, standards, and regulations for infosec. Over the last year several new and updated frameworks and regulations ...
2019 Secure Miami

2019 Secure Miami

This past weekend I attended 2019 Secure Miami conference, the third edition of this local cybersecurity conference. Organized by DigitalEra, and held at FIU, it also tied to BrewMiami, held later that ...

2018 NIST Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference

Back in October I was in Baltimore for NIST's 2018 Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference. For those not aware, let me break this down. NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ...

SFISSA’s 2018 Hack the Flag and Chili Cookoff

The South Florida ISSA Chapter is again held our annual Hack the Flag/Chili Cookoff in October of 2018. For the third year we were hosted at FIU's Graham Center on their main ...
2018 ISSA International Conference

2018 ISSA International Conference

This past week I attended the 2018 ISSA International Conference in Atlanta. I've attended the last 4 conferences (San Diego, Austin, Chicago, Orlando). There were good and bad points about this year's ...
Security Maturity Models (Part 1 of 2)

Security Maturity Models (Part 1 of 2)

At the 2018 BSides Miami conference I spoke on the topic of "Security Maturity Models". In part, due to technical problems with the presentation, am presenting a lot of what I spoke ...
Report on BSides Miami 2018

Report on BSides Miami 2018

Saturday, September 22, 2018 we had our first Security BSides conference in the South Florida area: BSides Miami. Hosted at i2 Labs on Biscayne Bay, we had two tracks of speakers, several ...

NIST releases v1.1 of the Cybersecurity Framework

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Hopefully by this point most are aware that NIST released after much work the updated version of the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), now version 1.1. This had been worked on over the last ...