Data breaches are occurring almost on a weekly basis. This edition will help you understand approaches that need to be prioritised by you and your organisation, to help you reduce your breach susceptibility. Using checklists Breach 20/20 provides an easy to read breakdown of key concerns, critical thinking and thought provoking narrative coupled with actionable direction setting to allow you to see how breaches occur. Explore in detail what practical steps you can put into place to reduce your breach potential.
About the Author: Raza Sharif, CISSP, CEH, CSSLP, CHFI Raza Sharif has over 20 years of experience in Information Security, Credit Card Compliance, Cyber Defense, E-Crime, and Advanced Forensic Investigations. Mr. Sharif is a subject leader in the field of leading edge information security services, for both government agencies and financial sector services. Internationally Mr. Sharif has personally provided security services to clients such as Vodafone, British Nuclear Fuel, Barclays, HSBC, Abu Dhabi Security Markets and many other institutes. Mr. Sharif has successfully managed large projects, developed Security architectures/infrastructures and sound security practices for hundreds of the world's most successful organisations. Working within the EU Government sectors Mr. Sharif helped mitigate Cyber attacks against the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) during a large scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack which brought down the entire countries E-Portal used extensively within Estonia. He is a leader in threat mitigation, risk reduction and fraud investigations. As lead advisor on the PCI-DSS standard, Mr. Sharif was selected to assist a UK government when a Card Breach loss of 57,000 card numbers occurred within the government Dept. employed as compliance director; Mr. Sharif performed the entire end to end PCI-DSS remediation, and assisted them regaining their compliance status post breach. Mr. Sharif holds the coveted CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Ethical Hacking and Forensics certificates as well as the Certified Software Security Life Cycle Professional CSSLP. Some of his prior employment history includes: Lead Security Architect - UK Government sectors Security Practice Director - Symantec UK Head of Professional Services - Verizon Business formerly Cyber trust PCI-DSS Director of Compliance - UK Gov. local Authority Security Advisor - Ministry Of Interior Security Architect - Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange - Contract Head of Compliance - PCI-DSS implementation program A regular lead on Forensics Investigations and data breaches. Mr. Sharif has many years' experience in Hacker attack vectors, and the evolving threat with key focus on data breach and data breach prevention strategies and related risk mitigation.