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Prioritizing Information Security Risks with Threat Agent Risk Assessment

Posted by xrsolis on January 18, 2010

Hello, I’m Xander and I’m a new contributor to the InfoSec Philippines blog. I was lurking on the Security Metrics Mailing list and the recent discussions were about Intel’s TARA methodology, which they’re using for their internal Information Security Risk Assessments. Intel’s methodology is centered on the most exposure that can be brought about by Threat Agents. Check out the whitepaper here.

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Seminars and Conventions

Posted by Jaime Raphael Licauco, CISSP, GSEC on March 16, 2009

The Center for Global Best Practices will be giving a one day seminar on “Best Practices in IT Audit” on Apr 24, 2009 at the Edsa-Shangrila Hotel, Mandaluyong City. It will be conducted by Patrick Dailey, CFE, GCFA, CISSP, EnCE, who is the founder and managing director of DigiThreat Solutions. Early bird offer is until Mar 24, 2009. Seminar cost is P7,800.00. For more info call (+63-2) 842-7148 or 59, email:jessica@cgbp.org, or check out their website.


Microsoft Philippines will be giving a two hour seminar on the “Advantages of Microsoft Certification”. The next dates are on Mar 20 and 26 to be held at the dB Wizards Office, 28/F 88 Corporate center Sedeno cor Valero Streets, Salcedo Village, Makati City. Check out the Microsoft Events Philippines site for more details.


ECCI will be giving a staggered three day seminar on “Accelerated Six Sigma Greenbelt – Striving for Quality Excellence and Transformation” on Apr 16-17 & 20, 2009. ECCI will also be giving a one day seminar on “Enterprise Risk Management (ISO 31000)” on Mar 26, 2009. For more info call (63-2) 750-5671 to 73 or email:faith@eccinternational.com.


There are a lot of presentations that are available from the APRICOT Manila Convention late last month. Most focus on IPv6, while there are others on malware, rogue dns’ and general security. Check out the presentations here.


Site News
The site may not get updated much this week since I will be conducting an Introduction to ISMS Seminar (ISO 27001:2005) and will be focusing on that.

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