A recent report from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and McAfee has concluded that the best solution for securing industrial control systems in the critical public infrastructure is whitelisting – the practice of excluded all but what is explicitly allowed (in contrast to blacklisting, which allows all that is not explicitly excluded). Your company’s data assets and infrastructure might not be as important to the country as the ones they’re talking about protecting, but chances are they are critically important to you. Should you take a tip from this report and consider the same solution?
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Deb Shinder
Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a technology and security analyst and author specializing in identity, security and cybercrime, utilizing her past experience as a police officer and police academy/criminal justice instructor. She has written numerous books and articles for web and print publications and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation for fourteen years in a row.
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