Critical Entities Resilience (CER) is an European Union (EU) directive. This post is an introduction to this directive. Introduction to CER CER was promulgated on 14 December 2022, along with NIS2 and DORA. Its full title is “Directive (EU) 2022/2557…
This post features scoring systems for IT vulnerabilities. List of Vulnerability Scoring Systems These are the resources for vulnerability scoring systems: The most popular is CVSS. CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard that provides an open…
IT risk is any risk that is specific to information technology. IT risk management deals with the IT risk within an organization. In an organization, IT risk management may be done by the IT security department or the risk department.…
This post summarizes some aspects of cloud security that need to be taken into account regarding compliance. To monitor cloud security compliance, we need to check all compliance sources and how they affect cloud security. Compliance sources: Limits of Cloud…
IT Compliance with Regulations is part of IT Security Compliance. You can read a more general post about this topic on this post. This is a non-exhaustive list of compliance regulations that may be taken into account in an organization.…
This post features some general-purpose risk management frameworks. For risk management frameworks specific for IT, please check this post. List of Risk Management Frameworks Risk management frameworks featured on this post: ISO 31000 ISO 31000 is a framework for risk…
This post features some media or magazines related to IT security or cybersecurity. For the media specific to operational technology (OT) security, please check this post. Media related to IT Security Media related to cybersecurity: The Hacker News The Hacker…
Threat modeling is the process of identifying, analyzing and categorizing threats. List of Cybersecurity Threat Models Cybersecurity Threat Models featured on this post: The most popular is MITTRE ATT&CK. MITRE ATT&CK MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) Matrix is…
This post explores some aspects of threat intelligence in the context of IT security. Concepts related to IT Threat Intelligence Tactics, techniques and procedures are commonly referred as TTPs. IT Thread Modelling Thread modelling is a process by which potential…
This post contains web-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) protocols. OpenID allows to use an account from another service. List of Web-based IAM Protocols Web-based Many of these protocols are used in combination to achieve Single Sign-on (SSO) or federation.…