Adam Shostack: Best Practices for Information Security


Adam Shostack is an expert in information and cyber security. As the founder and President of Shostack & Associates. Adam Shostack has more than twenty years of experience with delivering practical, creative, and effective solutions to a wide range of cyber security and information privacy issues.
What is a data breach?
A data breach is any event that results in the inappropriate disclosure or unauthorized access of sensitive, confidential, or otherwise protected information. This type of breach may involve the inappropriate disclosure of personal health information, personally identifiable information, trade secrets, and/or intellectual property. Organizations must ensure proper security of electronic and physical restricted information, regardless of how it is stored.
Best Practices for Securing Confidential Information
·         Keep your software up to date.  Most importantly, make sure your operating system and web browser are updating automatically on each of your devices.
·         Use a password manager such as 1Password.
·         Make backups and make sure you can restore files from them.
Adam Shostack important profiles?

Adam Shostack | RSA Conference

https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/adam_shostack
Adam Shostack is an Entrepreneur, Technologist, Author and Game Designer. ... Shostack is the Author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and the ...
 

Adam Shostack - Authors & Columnists - Dark Reading

https://www.darkreading.com/author-bio.asp?author_id=2432&
Recent and archived business technology news, analysis, and research by Adam Shostack.
 

How to start with threat modeling - MIS Training Institute

https://misti.com › Infosec Insider
By Adam Shostack. @adamshostack. | July 03, 2018. Threat modeling is essential to becoming proactive and strategic in your operational and application ...
 

Adam Shostack - Ntrepid

https://ntrepidcorp.com/people/adam-shostack/
Adam Shostack is an entrepreneur, technologist, author, and game designer, focused on improving security outcomes for his customers and the industry as a ...
 

Adam Shostack - IANS Portal

https://portal.iansresearch.com/insights/search/Adam%20Shostack
In this webinar, IANS Faculty Adam Shostack identifies ways to bring security engineering to the very earliest parts of product or service cycles, align with agile ...
 

Adam Shostack - Founder & CEO @ Stealth Startup | Crunchbase

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-shostack
Adam Shostack is a technologist, entrepreneur, author and game designer. Adam Shostack is a member of the BlackHat Review Board, and helped found the ...
 

Threat Modeling by Adam Shostack - DevSecCon | DevSecOps ...

www.devseccon.com/academy/threat-modelling-by-adam-shostack/
Threat modeling is how security gets a seat at the table. In this course, you'll learn from Adam Shostack, author of the book “Threat Modeling: Designing For ...
 

dblp: Adam Shostack

https://dblp.uni-trier.de › Persons
Jun 28, 2018 - List of computer science publications by Adam Shostack. ... Adam Shostack, Paul Syverson: What Price Privacy? - and why identity theft is ...
 

Adam Shostack joins Continuum Security's board - Continuum Security

https://www.continuumsecurity.net/adam-shostack-joins-continuum-securitys-board/
May 14, 2018 - We at Continuum Security are absolutely delighted to announce that Adam Shostack has joined our Advisory Board. Adam brings with him ...
 

Threat Modeling: Lessons from Star Wars - Adam Shostack - Tripwire

https://www.tripwire.com/.../threat-modeling-lessons-from-star-wars-adam-shostack-re...
In this webcast, Adam Shostack, author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, defines Threat Modeling, illustrates a simple approach to Threat Modeling ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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