The problem of Oracle is that they bought a technology that was stretched out to be actually “write once, run everywhere”. The Virtual Machine that provides this functionality had to be ported to all devices, and lately (in the past few years) also on mobile devices. As written in the news, even if the “run everywhere” […]
As of September 25 2013: 1168 CSSLP in the entire world (you have to sum them up from that table) https://www.isc2.org/member-counts.aspx# It is an honour to be one of them. 🙂 And this since one year and a half (Mai 2012). Some interesting statistics from that table: Romania 1 Germany 19 […]
After publishing the article in Security Insider under the shield of (ISC)2, I was surprized to see in the monthly newsletter a reference to the article. Source: Security Insider (HTML, PDF) Originally published in English: (ISC)2 Blog Republished in this blog: http://sorin-mustaca.com/2013/05/29/security-for-free/ “News and Events in your region” Zahlt kostenlose Sicherheit […]
As security professionals, we are continuously facing the challenge of smaller and smaller budgets allocated to maintain and improve the IT security. That’s probably the main reason why there is always the temptation of “Free”. Many people, sometimes even professionals, think that they can achieve a good security for free. “For free” means in this […]
With the third article published in the (ISC)2 Blog I was accepted as an official contributor in the (ISC)2 Blog. Here is a link to all my articles: http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/mustaca/index.html Here is a link to my biography: http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/authors.html#mustaca
One of the biggest problem that most IT security experts around the world have is the fact that IT security is never taken seriously until a security incident takes place. After that, management boards start being interested in IT security. However, these managers see security not through the eyes of an expert, but through the […]
Original: http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/2013/01/vulnerability-disclosure-a-new-business-model.html We all see in the mass media every day that software is vulnerable and that this is bad. But, few know what is happening behind the scene, until the news get out. There are two ways to disclosure a vulnerability: the most common one is to make a “full disclosure”, but there is […]
http://www.searchsecurity.de/specials/security_corner/articles/391962 This is my first article on SearchSecurity.de’s Security Corner, but definitely not the last one. I will publish soon the English version as well.
http://www.searchsecurity.de/specials/security_corner/isc2/ My cooperation with SearchSecurity.de is finally showing something. I was addded on the (ISC)2 Security Corner: Sorin Mustaca, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)²-zertifizierter CSSLP, CompTIA Security+,Project+, ist seit 2000 in der IT Sicherheitsindustrie und seit 2003 bei Avira tätig. […]
If you have read news lately, you couldn’t have missed hearing how well the tablets, smart phones and smart TVs are selling, and how badly the PC market (excluding laptops) is doing. Many so called “futurists” have predicted the passing of the PC era. But is it really gone? Is the Personal Computer really dead, […]