You Had Me at ToS

Have you ever actually read a Terms of Service (ToS)?After reading it, have you ever not accepted them and refused to use the service? We typically agree that reading them is important but so few of us actually do just that. Now what about at the business level, does someone Read more…

Practical NIST CSF Worksheet

A quick preemptive thank you for those that attended my talk on “Practical Application of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework” for SecureWorld Charlotte 2017. As mentioned in the presentation I’ve put together a modified version of a basic CSF worksheet that has expanded capabilities intended to help out the CSF practitioner Read more…

ELK Stack Parsing Apache Log Files

Anyone looking at log management for various reasons has probably heard the name ELK thrown around whenever the conversation turns to open source solutions. This stack is composed of three different tools, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana which come together to form a pretty good tool for digging through various logs. Read more…