Ryan Miller, Author at The Insecurity Matters Blog

When do IT security investments matter?

MIS Quarterly presented a study that looked at the difference in moderating effect between substantive and symbolic IT security solution adoption in the healthcare sector. Part of the paper consists of a meta-study of past research and goes on to propose a new concept on how to view IT security investment – IT value point.

Get it right or get out of the way

When a company has a break down in its processes blame is assigned based on whom the process owner is and the individual(s) responsible for completing the missed or an improperly executed task. When a low-level process is broken such as the case was with Experian and the missing Apache Struts patch that allowed an attacker to gain... Continue reading

Do the right thing – configure your HTTP headers

This article is six pages in Word and because of the length, WordPress isn’t playing nice. The document below contains the entire article.

Security Onion Set Up Part 3: Configuration of Version 14.04

Before we begin configuring Security Onion, it’s a good idea to get an Oinkcode from snort.org if you’re going to use Snort. Snort can also use the Emerging Threat rulesets. There are three options available to obtain an Oinkcode. Community Edition – the rules are updated every 30 days, no support – FREE Personal – the... Continue reading

Security Onion Set Up Part 2: Installation

This article is straightforward in that if you’ve installed an operating system before this won’t be an issue. The recommended installation medium is Rufus. Rufus creates a bootable thumb drive where you can place [.]img or [.]iso images. Thumb drives have a far higher data rate transfer than DVD’s making the installation quick.