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- Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, Fifth Edition
- Best Practices for Preventing and Responding to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Low Cost Technical Solutions to Jump Start an Insider Threat Program
- Fall 2016 Edition of the Secure Coding Newsletter
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FloCon 2017 Announces Conference Program, Keynote, and Registration
FloCon 2017, the 13th annual open forum for large-scale network analytics, has announced its full technical program and keynote speakers for the conference. Registration is now open.
Distributed Denial of Service Attacks: Four Best Practices for Prevention and Response
CERT researcher Rachel Kartch provides an overview of DDoS attacks and best practices for mitigating and responding to them.
An Evaluation of Three Cyber Threat Models
This blog post evaluates three popular methods of cyber threat modeling and a potential model that fuses the best qualities of each.
Mapping the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) to the CRR
To help financial institutions assess their cyber resilience, we mapped FFIEC CAT statements to Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) questions.
Video Highlights Recent SEI STEM Efforts
Features recent high school cyber-kinetic exercise and SEI's wider initiative to encourage young people to consider careers in STEM fields.
Seven Principles for Software Assurance
Seven Principles for acquiring, building, deploying, and sustaining software systems to achieve a desired level of confidence for software assurance.
Managing Third Party Risks to Financial Services Organizations
A resilience-based approach can help financial services organizations to manage cyber risks from outsourcing and comply with federal cybersecurity regulations.
NEWS
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FloCon 2017 Announces Conference Program and Keynote
Press Release - 11/29/2016
CERT Division at a Glance
We were there for the first internet security incident and we’re still here more than 25 years later. Only now, we’ve expanded our expertise from incident response to a comprehensive, proactive approach to securing networked systems. The CERT Division is part of the Software Engineering Institute, which is based at Carnegie Mellon University. We are the world’s leading trusted authority dedicated to improving the security and resilience of computer systems and networks and are a national asset in the field of cybersecurity.
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RECENT VULNERABILITIES
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VU#535111: McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Windows scriptproxy COM object memory corruption vulnerability
Original Release date - 12/13/2016 -
VU#779243: EpubCheck 4.0.1 contains a XML external entity processing vulnerability
Original Release date - 12/13/2016 -
VU#245327: McAfee VirusScan for Linux contains multiple vulnerabilities
Original Release date - 12/12/2016 - Report a Vulnerability
PUBLICATIONS
- Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats, Fifth Edition Presents recommendations for mitigating insider threat based on CERT's continued research and analysis of over 1,000 cases. Technical Report - 12/21/2016
- Low Cost Technical Solutions to Jump Start an Insider Threat Program This technical note explores free and low cost technical solutions to help organizations prevent, detect, and respond to malicious insiders. Technical Note - 12/12/2016
- Avoiding Insecure C++ This presentation introduces the SEI CERT C++ Presentation - 12/07/2016
EVENTS
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FloCon 2017
The FloCon network security conference provides a forum for large-scale network flow analytics.
Conferences - 01/09/2017
Blogs
Autonomy, Robotics, Verification, DDoS Attacks, and Software Testing: The Top 10 Posts of 2016
12/19/2016 - Douglas C. Schmidt
Podcasts
Becoming a CISO: Formal and Informal Requirements
In this podcast, Darrell Keeling, Vice President of Information Security and HIPAA Security Officer at Parkview Health, discusses the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to become a CISO in today’s fast-paced cybersecurity field. Podcast - 10/19/2016
Global Value Chain – An Expanded View of the ICT Supply Chain
In this podcast, Edna Conway and John Haller discuss the global value chain for organizations and critical infrastructures and how this expanded view can be used to improve ICT supply chain management, including risks to the supply chain. Podcast - 07/18/2016
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