TechnoTrev

TechnoTrev is the unfiltered voice of Trevor Murimba — a cybersecurity professional who brings clarity, humour, and hard truths to the digital frontier.

The ‘Security by’ model approach

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Passionate about it! Intrigued by it! Confused by it! SaaS, RaaS, XaaS, what! what!, okay let me PaaS, oops meant pass! Unlike the as-a–service model that inherently loves prepending strange InfoTech words, I am going to talk about another model, that seems to enjoy appending weird random like words; the ‘Security by’ model! Don’t you just love it? Oops, I meant I.T! Security by Obscurity, Security by Isolation, Security by Default!; The ‘Security by‘ model approach!

 

 

The ‘Security by’ model approach seems to share and rely on; 

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Mitigating Ransomware attacks using McAfee VSE Access Protection Policies

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The image on the left is an awesome reminder of my first blog post. Ransomware really caught my attention to a point were, it ended up featuring as my first article. That being said, my reply to Gail’s comment really sealed the deal, to an extend were i just felt I had to revisit and unearth this post! My response read, “This is proof we are living in the “Cyber Crime Era!”. It’s sad but what makes it even more scary is, it’s happening and happening around the clock. I bet you this is just the tip of an iceberg….” Oh yes, spot on! I am no Fortune Teller, but all I can tell ya (replacement for you), is we are living in that era! Hmmm, some deadly rhymes ending with ‘aaaah!’ right?; but definitely not deadlier than the gist of the flow, Ransomware!!!! Hold on, besides my rhymes, I will not let you (Ransomware) intimidate me, because I have something to use to mitigate against you, 

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Windows XP Hack

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uTorrent RemoteWe sat, had a few drinks, he told me he had a couple of Open Source Projects he was working on and also described the technologies he had implemented to get one of his projects going. “Wait! Do these things actually exist?!” I asked… “Yes they do!”, he replied. Okay, I think I am going a little bit fast here; It all started when I was having a chat with one of my associates (long time close associate to be exact), he was telling me how excited he was to have spent the last couple of months investing in learning and implementing Open Source based Server Solutions. Most of his projects initially started / start off by him downloading a couple of Linux based software(s) (.iso images) in the form of torrents from Distrowatch using his TorrentBox. “What did you say, TorrentBox?” I asked, “Wait! Do these things actually exist?!” I asked (again (without even giving him the chance to answer))… “Yes they do!”, he replied. My questions or reasoning didn’t seem to move him, neither did his projects (as a whole)! His major concern was

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