Homeland Security reveals threats and the plans to counter the threats and attacks

The US Department of Homeland Security had a security summit where the Assistant Secretary of Cybersecurity and Communications, Greg Garcia, provided some remarks about the current challenges and threats and the need for all critical infrastructure entities to work together to share information to face the threats that are not merely increasing but alos has gone to another level of sophistication. More details can be found here .. >> More ..

Top Ten Information Security Risks of 2008

This list which in fact covers Threats, Vulnerabilities, Impacts, Risks and Controls assembled by the CISSP Forum and the ISO 27K Implementers' Forum. The list of course includes threats and risks to Critical Information Infrastructure.

Those who are still confused with the definition and differences of Threat, Vulnerabilityu, Impact, Risk and Control, this article does list and discuss the brief definitions and the actual lists of the above will illustrate the definition further.

This is a must read for all involved in security. >> More...