User Awareness Program

Ultrasonic Technology Takes Fingerprint Security to the Next Level

Mobile devices getting a boost in security with ultrasonic 3D fingerprint scanner. A new 3D imaging technique of fingerprint scanning, using an ultrasonic sensor, has researchers excited about the prospects of “smartphone security” to another level. We’ve never been enthusia...

Awareness Links!

A throw-back to the nineties! Links from this Website:   The hyperlinks from this website that go to other websites provide content written by third parties not related to infotex. While infotex visits these web pages to review their content, we do not review these pages fr...

The Password Manifesto Revisited

Password aging should be retired, usually . . . There is never 100%, even in manifestos! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . So several years back I became known as the auditor who had the audacity to prop...

IBM Discovers Million Dollar Bank Transfer Scam

An article review. The Dyre Wolf Scheme reaches new level of sophistication IBM security researchers have uncovered a new, highly sophisticated bank transfer scheme. It seems to be run by a well-funded group of cyber criminals located in Eastern Europe and has successfull...

Three Quick Ways to Protect Yourself

A Vigilize post . . . Meant for awareness training, feel free to steal for your own awareness content! I have a Client who is big on helping his users “in their personal life.”  He has learned that you can get a user’s attention by talking about their hom...

Keep Your BYOD Policy Updated

An article review. New Device automates iOS Pin Hacking Many companies have Bring Your Own Device policies in place, where employees are allowed to bring their own PCs or mobile devices into the workplace or have business utilities, like email, setup on their personal dev...

Awareness Is Not a Verb!

But “test” is an action verb! and your approach could “Turn Awareness Inward.” Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . “With all we have going on, our auditors are not letting us a...

Former Anthem CIO Admits a Lack of Awareness Training

An article review. Well, duh . . . . By now we’ve all read the headlines associated with the recent Anthem Insurance data breach. After all, this incident will go down in the record books as being the third largest data breach to date, at least with regard to the number o...

P-7 The Top Seven Awareness Posters (by infotex)

Four of them about passwords . . . By view count, here are the top seven posters as of 02/01/2015! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Given what a hit the two posters we did this with for the IBA’s ...

The Magnificent Seven 2015

Alias:  M-7 2015 Seven trends impacting Information Security Officers! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Shhh . . . . . I’m sneaking this article in at the end of January.  Hopefully no one will notice . ...