Why can't we have nice things?
20 July 2017
At least once a fortnight I find myself filling out a Request for Proposal (RFP) describing my team’s development approach, and how we secure our Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). We have a formal security framework; they’re great for filling out RFPs. When you are trying to build products in an agile format they are less so. The traditional process looks something like this.
27 March 2017
Last week in the US the FCC privacy regulations were repealed, which, amongst other things, allows ISPs to track your internet usage and sell it to third parties. It's a good time to think about privacy.
03 January 2017
Security 'hardening' is the process of raising the baseline security of a device. I harden every device I use. It's not my intention to provide a hardening guide here (I've linked several good ones at the end), but I did want to go through some of the resources available if you need to do this for a group of computers (your organisation, for example).
13 December 2016
PCI DSS is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and it is required for any merchant, payment processor, or service provider that interacts with cardholder data. I recently went through the process of implementing this standard, and I thought I would share some of my observations on the process.
23 October 2016
I've spent the last weekend attending Ruxcon 12, which is a technical security conference in Melbourne. For the benefit of those who weren't there, and because it helps me consolidate my own thoughts, I'd give the following review.
27 May 2016
Checking things at part of due diligence is rarely the most fun activity in the world, but it does have a habit of turning up some surprising things. I've been doing some compliance checking for PCI DSS recently, and it turns out a lot of the providers I thought were PCIDSS compliant (and claimed to be) aren't.