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Infosec Island Network

Infosec Island Network
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Saturday, 06 February 2010
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Contact Anthony at afreed@wireheadsecurity.com regarding all aspects of business development, client and community relations. Many opportunities are currently available for business and strategic alignment at Infosec Island.



Infosec Island is committed to serving the needs of SMBs and mid-market enterprises across many industries, as well as nonprofits, government agencies and educational organizations and the infosec community at large.



In today's hyper speed world, information security breaches and new compliance regulations come fast and furious. IT and network professionals need a safe haven where they can find the help and information they need quickly and easily. Infosec Island combines an online community, infosec portal and a social network all-in-one.



It's designed especially for IT and network professionals who manage security, risk, and compliance issues. Infosec Island members and visitors save time, reduce their costs of guarding against security threats and make their security efforts more effective and efficient.



Infosec Island combines the benefits of personalized services with profiles of companies or organizations and their unique network and technology installations. This enables the delivery of high value-added information, advice, security alerts, tools and services that are relevant to its members.



By helping members to identify, assess, analyze and address their security threats and risks, Infosec Island participants can minimize their need to spend hours sifting through Google search results looking for hard-to-find technical fixes to their day-to-day security problems.



Infosec Island also offers its members the opportunity to share their product- and vendor-neutral expertise with their peers in an online community designed to support shared content and social networking.
Monday, 24 May 2010 by Anthony M. Freed
Investigations continue into the root cause of the anomalous stock market volatility that recently saw nearly one trillion dollars in market value evaporate in matter of minutes.

Daniel Wagner of the Associated Press reported, "The White House's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser says there is no evidence that a cyber attack was behind the chaos that shook Wall Street... John Brennan told Fox News Sunday that officials have uncovered no links suggesting that cyber attacks caused turbulence that sent the Dow Jones industrials plunging almost 1,000 points..."

Assuming the Obama administration's well-publicized rebuke of the notion that hackers played a part in the raucous trading is correct, the mere fact that they made such a concerted effort to dispel the hacker scenario highlights the reality that such an infiltration is not only possible, it is highly probable.

The fact that the "kill-the-hacker-story" message was issued during the Sunday political talking head circuit is strong evidence that the administration is not only taking the threat of cyber insecurity in our financial systems very seriously, they are also cognizant of the damage to investor confidence that could result from such an event - or even from the rumor of such an event...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4119-DOW-Plunge-Highlights-Trillion-Dollar-Hacker-Threat.html
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