We recently advised that people in the business of planning, building and supporting computer networks should not lose sight of the mythical OSI Layer 8. We define Layer 8 as the human-to-human ...

Remember the 8th layer of the OSI networking stack: humans. System administrators must educate themselves and their users about social engineering practices to prevent attacks. Social engineering.

For many years, security monitoring relied on gathering data from layer 4 of the OSI model through such data types as NetFlow. Because layer 4 data dealt with the transport layer, it isn't the most ...

The OSI model defines protocols for how a network technically handles communications at the various functional layers. Starting with electrons and photons at the physical layer (Layer 1), the model ...

Discussions regarding security metrics appear nearly every other week on at least one of the mailing lists I follow. How do you measure your effectiveness as a security team, and what's the ROI of ...

Credit: L-R: Steve Parsonage (Canary Technology Solutions), Joshua Heathcote (Layer 8 Security), Tom Freer (Layer 8 Security) Canary Technology Solutions has acquired Brisbane-headquartered Layer 8 ...

Sielox LLC President and CEO - Karen Evans announced their annual Certified Sielox Integrators Award recipients for 2023. MCM Integrated Systems of Van Nuys, California was awarded National Certified ...