Category Archives: External Content

WhatsApp group for information and cyber security news

External Content, Management Announcements, News, PersonalEitan Caspi

Hello everyone,

I opened a WhatsApp group where I regularly post information / cyber security news and sometimes other interesting things in this field.

Most of the links are to content in English, but sometimes also in to content in Hebrew.

You are hereby invited to join the group, and invite more people, using the link below.

The group’s description:
”
Hello everyone, My name is Eitan Caspi.

In this group I will share information security news and updates from around the world, including interesting content that is not necessarily news (such as technical articles, thoughts about the field, and so on), mainly in English and a little in Hebrew.

Group members are invited to invite relevant people to join. Let’s have fun!

Link to join the group – https://chat.whatsapp.com/Lxt5DYAomRGKbwfLrt5iiW

My LinkedIn Profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/eitancaspi/

My Consulting firm – https://vsec.co.il/

My Information Security Blog – https://fudie.net/

My initiative to end default passwords, “Default is a FAULT!” – https://defaultisafault.com/
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Sad declaration

Critical Infrastructure Protection, External Content, Government and Regulation, Information Security in Israel, The Information Security Profession, ThoughtsEitan Caspi

“There have been zero successful cyber-attacks on critical national infrastructures in the past year”

This is what Yigal Unna, the head of the National Cyber Directorate of Israel, declared at the CyberTech conference, held last week in Israel. Stunning declaration in my opinion.

I thought there is no 100% in information security (which is true for physical security as well). How can he know this for sure? Information security, and certainly as part of risk management, involves recognizing that there is never any certainty. You can always be attacked successfully and you will know about it as it happens and you may never know. You always have to assume that at any given moment, at any part of your systems – you lose, because you know you don’t cover everything and can’t cover everything.

This is a statements in the style that existed before the Yom Kippur War. Smugness and arrogance that have no place in our profession and I believe that sooner or later they will run into the wall of reality and shatter.