Posts tagged as "security" - Chris Hardie

Bruce Schneier has saved future bureaucrats some time and written the core text of the 2015 US Congressional report on the impacts of the REAL ID Act. The report will find that the creation of this national ID card back in 2005 introduced unnecessary security risks, compounded existing data privacy issues, incurred extraordinary costs to implement and maintain, represented a troubling power grab by the federal government over state systems for issuing identification, and, perhaps worst of all, was passed...

This document discusses methods for performing a thorough and effective security audit on a computer system or network. It will not specifically discuss the technical details of prevention on specific computer systems, but will rather provide a general checklist for examining the security on a computer system. (This document has aged somewhat, but the checklist items are still quite applicable. It's too bad that computer security isn't an area seeing more improvement.) If you're interested...

I was actually looking forward to working late tonight. I had a client who'd asked me to do some work on a project related to some software I maintain. Because it's software I maintain outside of my usual duties at my company, I charge an hourly rate directly to the client, instead of going through Summersault. But even more than the higher pay, I was really looking forward to the particular problem space. The client sells real estate forms over the web, and maintains his order information in a database...