(ISC)2 maintains this page https://www.isc2.org/member-counts.aspx# with the counts of all certifications per country. I wrote before about this here https://www.sorinmustaca.com/how-many-certified-secure-software-lifecycle-professionals-are-out-there/, but this was back in 2013 (1.5 years after I became certified) ! Some statistics: As of September 25 2013: 1168 CSSLP Romania 1 Germany 19 As of May 23 2022: 3008 CSSLP […]
I am going to be visiting Infosecurity London from Tuesday to Thursday this week. If you are one of my friends or customers and you are around, ping me and we could meet. I am planning to attend the (ISC)2 Member Reception on Wednesday afternoon. Meet me at #Infoseclondon https://www.infosecurityeurope.com/ Click here to […]
If you don’t know safecode.org, then stop reading this article and click here: https://safecode.org/about-safecode/ SAFECode – short for the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code – spearheads a global, industry-wide effort to identify and promote best practices for developing and delivering more secure and reliable software, hardware and services. Here is a short film about […]
Six years ago I was writing here about getting my “Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional” certification: http://www.sorinmustaca.com/finally-officially-csslp-certified/ Two certification cycles in the future, meaning 6 years, I received an update for my diplom and some goodies: And inside the new diplom, the card and a pin.
Microsoft has released an updated guide on driver security. This new guide offers advice that developers could use to ensure Windows drivers are secured against basic attacks and preventable flaws. Driver Security Guidance This section contains information on enhancing driver security. In this section Topic Description Driver security checklist This topic provides a driver […]
ENCRYPTION IS NOT SOLVING ALL CYBERSECURITY PROBLEMS Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, shares his thoughts from a recent Frankfurt-based automotive show on the overreliance of the car industry on Encryption, noting “…all those lights are sensors and processors which communicate with each other via the CAN BUS (Controller Area Network). If one of them is […]
I visited last week the IAA in Frankfurt, Germany. IAA stands for International Automobile Exhibition and takes place every year in Frankfurt, Germany. This is the place where every year the latest cars are being presented but also the newest technologies around cars. This year it was a lot about mobility, interaction, autonomous parking and driving, […]
In the News Quote for the Day “It is no secret that the cyber criminals are where the money is. If the targets are easy to breach, it is even better since this improves the ratio effort/outcome for them.” Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, covers the basics for small to medium business inComputerWorldUK’s Infosecurity Voice and on the […]
Since I first published the free eBook "Improve your security" dedicated to end users, I've been asked many times to give advises for small and medium enterprises. At first, I thought that this is a very different topic than what I wrote before. However, after some thinking, I realized, that difference between the behavior of end-users at […]
My blog post “What is a security expert?” which I published in the (ISC)2 Blog was mentioned in the (ISC)2 EMEA Newsletter: Germany’s Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP takes an analytic look at what it means to be an information security professional, also on the (ISC)² Blog
