By @alexcpsec, @bfist, @hrbrmstr
Tue 06 January 2015 | tags: blog, veris, vcdb, humor, -- (permalink)

Need an opinon about the Sony hack?

There are a lot of opinions out there attributing the recent breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment to a variety of sources. Let’s face it, you probably don’t know who hacked Sony. Unfortunately in the world of information security it is pretty ...

By Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)
Thu 09 January 2014 | tags: d3, vcdb, -- (permalink)

I work a lot with breach data and one of the things that is slowly emerging from the data is that there is no single approach that would work for every organization. In order to begin to peel away at this problem (and to work on my D3 skills), I am tapping into the VCDB data set. For those not familiar with VCDB (VERIS Community Database), it is a project started at Verizon early in 2013 (and part of my rather fun day job). VCDB scours headlines for information about security incidents and records them in the VERIS format.…