The IT Security Attaché

Good day to you,

If you are a security vendor that provides solutions for mobile devices I am interested in talking with you about being a part of our MESS in February. Please feel free to contact me directly for further discussion.

Here is more information about the summit.

The Summit will be focusing on the proliferation of mobile devices (laptops, Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs, UMPCs, Smartphone’s, media players, mass storage devices and add-on cards) and the threats they present to the consumers/businesses and the data that resides on them. We will provide the products and solutions that will allow the management and control over these devices through the endpoints.

Live hands on demos will be available. There will be test/demo systems configured and setup to facilitate the effective use of the information and products being presented and demo’d. There will be mobile devices from the industry vendors such as HTC, Palm, Motorola, Google, Samsung and more.

We are all aware of how these devices can be used to steal data/information off the target system unbeknownst to the user.

The Summit will focus on 3 key areas of mobility and security.

1. The Devices – A look at the mobile devices on the market today.

a. Netbooks, Laptops, Tablet PCs, Mini PCs, UPMCs
b. Smartphone’s/Pocket PCs – HTC’s, Motorola’s, HP Smartphone’s, Samsung, Cell phones
c. Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Nexus One
d. Media Players – iPod’s, MP3 players and more
e. Mass Storage Devices (USB Flash drives, Compact and SD cards, mobile phone memory sticks, and more)
f. Wireless capabilities – Infrared, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMax,
g. The Operating Systems – Windows Mobile, Symbian, Apple, Android

2. The Threats – A look at the threats that affects these devices and how they are targeted and attacked from internal and external sources.

a. Viruses/worms proliferation from devices to network to world.
b. Unauthorized connectivity to and from unscrupulous devices and sources (wired and wireless).
c. The use of these devices for storing critical business data and information.
d. Sharing data and information to and from the device through messaging and wireless connectivity.
e. The availability of over the air messaging and other communications tools and the problems they present.
f. Data loss/Theft of these devices and the business impact it presents.
g. Addressing the myths about over-the-air wiping of the device and why it is not effective today. The device is still a threat if lost.

3. The Protection – How to manage, protect and secure these devices from the threats.

a. How to manage the devices on and off the network.
b. How to protect and secure your endpoints from these unauthorized devices.
c. How to secure the devices against malicious codes (viruses, worms, Trojans, keyloggers, hackers) with viral protection.
d. How to secure the data/information residing on the devices local store and storage cards with data encryption.
e. How to secure the wireless connections of the device.
f. What to do in the event of a device loss or theft – the incident alert/response, damage control and alerting process.
g. How to make the over-the-air wiping feature effective and to mitigate the loss of data if device is lost.

Please feel free to share this request with any vendor that may find it of value.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/CEO/Chairman/Security Attaché
~TITSSN~

Good day to you,

On behalf of TITSSN, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas filled with love, joy and peace as we make it through the holiday season.

We thank you for your continued patronage and look forward to serving you more in 2010.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/CEO/Chairman

Good day to you,

Over the past few months we have been working more closely with our security vendors to align key support for our network members, partners and associates and we are happy to announce that we have completed the negotiations for this new initiative to make it viable, feasible and successful for all.

Starting in January 2010, TITSSN will take full responsibility for providing free or deeply discounted pricing for all vendor member security products within the network for its members. That’s right, you heard it correctly, we’re giving you free full versions of our vendor’s security solutions to secure and protect your systems. Not only are we providing the solutions, we are also providing the documentation for installing, configuring and using them. We know of the challenges being faced with these solutions where system resources are used up thus making the systems appear to be slow and so we’re going to support those issues for you as well. Our goal is to properly secure every members PCs so they can be safer and more secure on and offline no matter where they are.

Forget about license renewals and licensing issues, we will take care of all those for you and leave you to continue enjoying the secure benefits and use of your systems without these minor interruptions. There are certain restrictions to this offer as we are seeing people joining up and not actively participating in the network activities and developments. We will not be simply giving these solutions away to any signed up account, we will review the account and offer the solutions accordingly.

This offer is limited to home users only. We are working on a business version of this initiative that will provide much deeper volume discounts for the business. This is in the works and will be announced soon.

More details to come as we put this into effect and set all the parameters in place.

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your business and support and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
The IT Security Attaché | President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~
The IT Security Attaché
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~

Good day to you,

As a technology/IT Security services provider we are always striving to attain the highest levels of professional services, training, support and value for our members and in doing so, at times add additional incentives to the process(es). Our membership hosts some of the finest service providers in their various areas of business and services, and we are always finding ways of bringing the people who needs the services together with the people who deliver on them.

TITSSN is launching this new initiative to allow approved service providers to handle incident and service requests within the Social Network and be compensated for them. This new model will allow more people coming to our network for help and support to get the quality needed to enhance their business or personal needs. There are certain qualifications and restrictions as we must ensure that the proper understanding of what is being supported and offered is of the professional levels of quality and service. There are certain free services that will be offered of which will be documented and made publicly known.

Over the years we have built good relationships with our member service providers and in doing so, we have gotten to know them personally and professionally. These relationships have built trust and a common goal where we are all striving for the quality of services and support for our customers and clients. It is also a means of bringing the network together so that we can all build on the various areas of expertise and skillsets needed for securing tomorrow’s systems today. We have seen their business model, seen and heard their professional response, seen their hands-on skillset in effect, provided the needed training and education of/on specific vendor products and solutions and have collaborated with them across numerous projects. It is this level of value that will allow us to create the perfect working model for this initiative as we are able to identify key people with the needed professional abilities, skillset and ethics to represent our organization in supporting our Social Network community.

Services and support will range from,

Hardware sales, services and support
Software sales, services, implementation, support and training
Hands-on technical support on and offsite/offline
Technical training for your family, employees/staff and members
Specialized and customized training on specific vendor products/solutions
Knowledge transfer and relationship building
Web Infrastructure implementation, configuration and hosting (blogs, forums, websites, ecommerce)

Our services and support model doesn’t omit any one or any size organization or company, we support any and everyone with their technology and IT Security needs. All are invited to join our network and seek out the services and support that are provided.

Our Social Network is located at http://titssn.org

We hope that by providing this service that it will attract more members who are seeking these services or wanting to provide the services and support that is being put forward. If interested please feel free to contact us for more details by emailing our Secure Relations Team. We apprecilove your business and support and look forward to serving you more.

Thank you very much and have a great day.

~Brett A. Scudder~
The IT Security Attaché
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

The current state of our economic and global interconnectivity infrastructure relies heavily and in some cases solely on the adoption, use and services of technology today and for tomorrow. More and more we’re seeing the integration and use of technology in the home, school, places of learning and other institutions that confirms that our decency on these things are far from going away or over. Yet, unchecked, we’re still in a money making and financial gains mode when it comes to providing the education, awareness, knowledge of the convergence of technology and the World Wide Web for us as a people.

The ridiculous notion of our infrastructure being secured by over government or independent entities that limit partnerships and associations to only high levels, is a sure sign of the failure of the systems of security for tomorrow. Until and unless we unite in this fight against these issues and the growing trends by which they are being introduced, we will always be vulnerable by our weakest, untrained and not knowledgeable links (citizens, business, educators, advisors, technologists), . We are vulnerable through the process of omission, omitting those we think are not a critical part of the infrastructure or the need to help in securing it. The high costs of securing our infrastructure does not include user education and general awareness as a proactive move. It is only when something happens and the issues/problems are of a great magnitude/impact that we see the levels of attention and focus being put to it, then comes the irritating comments of if we had known or if we had acted sooner.

What will it take for us to give the needed attention and focus to these issues before they become problems?
When and where will we see the integration and coordination of all levels of society getting involved in this initiative?
Who can speak on all levels for all levels?

These are different times, different types of warfare, different types of attacks with more sophistication, more widespread impact and yet, still, we’re limiting the resources needed to endorse, support and finance these educational and awareness needs. We are falling behind in the fight to keep up with the demand of technology products and solutions because the hardware vendors mission to bring us the latest and greatest products with more feature rich functions, speed, storage and settings. This is one fight that by its very simplicity, involves our youths/children and those of early learning without even going outside their boundaries. The threats are looking for us, looking for vulnerabilities in our systems, looking for our private and personal information, looking for anything it can on and about us and our businesses, where we work and how we live.

Will you leave yourself vulnerable because you didn’t take the time to learn more about them or practice safe computing?
How do we address this on a global scale where the minds and concerns of our youths are addressed in regards to technology, privacy and securing them?
Who educates the educators and provides them with the needed resources to speak to the technology advancements being seen and felt in our society today within the classrooms?

Our youths are educating the educators, the parents and the more senior members of our society. While the adults and seniors are busy living their day to day lives, the youths have all this extra time on their hands to play with that makes that the perfect educational resource for tomorrow. Educating them about the internet and how technology integrates and affects our daily lives today and tomorrow will help them to be better netizens. There are too many unknowns into what is the most sophisticated and interconnected network every built and running.

We are too controlling over our youths without the right focus on these things. It is not about taking away the access or resources of the internet, it is about educating them more on its values, proper use and how to manage their online presence and identity. Social Networks, Social Media, personal and professional messaging ethic, etiquette, general internet usage and the Threats Landscape are all critical topics that should be integrated into our school systems curriculum today to allow these kinds of thoughts from an early age and stage of development. More funding and resources should be put into programs, groups, organizations that focus on these critical resources training for tomorrow. Our lower school educational systems are lacking the integration of technology, privacy, internet usage and protection training that suits our youths today. Youths are exposed and have access to these internet resources at home without proper education and awareness as to how to use and manage them until something happens and a life is taken  or at stake and further investigation reveals that he/she had a secret life online that was very troubled and now this.

This is where our educational institutions should be filling in the gap and providing the additional focus and attention on these things. Engaging local subject matter experts, vendors, developers and other technology leaders to come in and give real world experience and open discussion is a critical need for our youths. Let us engage the youths in open dialog on and about technology, IT Security, privacy and other concerns they may have. Let us open up those channels of communications so they can be better served and ready for the superhighway ride ahead.

Let us not waste time in helping to foster the needed understanding, education and awareness needed for our youths as they have and are actively engaged in using them every day. What better way to put this knowledge craving to use than by helping them along the way.

IT Security is a people problem, not an industry one. We are all at risk.

Thank you and have a great day,
 
~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

Good day to you,

Hi all,

I’m sure this will excite a lot of people and I’m more excited than you are. I just received confirmation that we will be having some copies of Windows 7 to give away thanks to Mr. Doi who has always supported our initiatives and efforts. Thank you very much sir.

More details to come but yes, Windows 7 will be a part of the promotion and we now have to decide on where to add it. Hmm, we’ll see.

This is too exciting.

~Brett A. Scudder~

Hi all, check this out.

~Brett A. Scudder~

So here I was caught up in another messaging discussion and the use of online mail services. I don’t mind having a discussion on mail security but when it comes to infrastructure people tend to think I over extend the value and need, do I?

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~ | http://titssn.net
We are Security – your Security – our Security – IT Security. Our Security is Safe and Secure.

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

We added a MicroBlogging feature to our social network to enhance the personal experience of our members and getting the kind of “more personal” collaboration between them. This is available for all members and we ask that everyone activate their MicroBlog and allow followers. You should also check out the rest of the members that are of interest and follow them as well.

This is a feature like Twitter but internal to the network. I must say I find it very valuable for me as I have to constantly post updates and it allows the tracking of each and the threads that build on it.

So take a few minutes and check out the MicroBlog in your profile. Who knows, you may get followers.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

As a network that hosts various kinds/levels of local and online businesses, we are always striving to enhance the visibility of our membership resources to those in need of their services. It is for this reason that we created the business directory within our network so we could add the additional features needed for our members to add and promote their businesses and what they do best. We needed a way to allow the creation of these businesses with the direct interaction from the network in order for the full extent of our services to be seen and known.

Business owners can create a page about their business, services they offer, areas of specialty, contact information with the ability to have comments and feedback. This is an invaluable feature as it creates direct interaction between our members, the service providers and those on need of it.

As an added value to our local member business owners, we are offering special discounted pricing to them for their continued support of our group meetings, local events and the network. This fee is being waived as a special promotion for the month of October and you must get to it now. We hope this will be a valuable feature for our business entrepreneurs as we build on the vast and extensive resources of our network. As we continue to grow, so will the values and availability of this feature.

The business directory can be viewed here http://titssn.org/businesses.php.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

We are never failing when it comes to the ingenuity, resources, value and professionalism and so we are adding three new segments to the network.

ThreatsMix – leveling the IT Security Threats Landscape for everyone to see where and how they fix into the matrix, the things that affects them, how it affects them and how they can be more protective and secure in today’s world of technology. ThreatsMix will provide a holistic look at providing better education and awareness about the threats and what is active in the wild while you’re actively under direct impact from them.

Where do you stand in the mix, are you  properly secured and are you ready for the next level?

The IT SecuriCity (Security City) is a city built by IT Security professionals, vendors enthusiast and advisors for people to come in and peruse the resources and values that we have to offer. This city will house the latest, greatest and most organized environment of technical and professional technology and IT Security resources as we go forward. Visit our city and check out the sights, views and resources that will be available.

Securious, the word speaks for itself as we have and will always take IT Security very serious and as such will be providing the highest levels of value and resources for all. This is Securious.

More details to come as we build on integrating these into our social network home.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

Our ENGAGED promotion for October kicks off on the 15^th with many goodies and value for our members. You must be an active member of the network to benefit from the program and so start getting involved and building up your points. Points are critical to getting some of the special gifts and giveaways.

We’re working on the network and adding the giveaways into the gifts section so you can see what will be available until they are ready.

We’re very excited about this so please join us http://titssn.org/signup.php

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Meeting details here http://titssn.org/event.php?event_id=10

Look out for some hot new releases to come as a part of TITSSN v.2010.

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

Today I got confirmation from Sunbelt Software’s CEO Alex Eckelberry that he will contribute his Vipre solution to the promotion. On behalf of the network I would like to say many thanks to him for sharing the vision and supporting the cause. I am sure the lucky winners will be most secured and protected by it.

Thank you sir and we will surely put them to good use.

Have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Good day to you,

As an educational, training, services, support and advisory organization, we have always added a more personal and face-to-face element to our work and initiatives and we don’t see why our new home shouldn’t be the same. Communication is a critical part of our work and so we have made sure that we included the needed resources to offer these services within our network. The audio, video and text messaging services offer a new level of communication for our members to collaborate and address anything at anytime. No matter where you are, one can converse on any level needed with their friends, clients and associates.

Whether you’re networking with a member who is a client, customer, friend or someone new, you can extend the value of communicating through these additional resources with just the click of a button and still be active within the network. Personally I like seeing who I am talking/typing to/with and so I have a very nice high end webcam and microphone that I use for the audio and video pieces. This way you can have the visual effects and experience the digital qualities as well. This is integrated with the audio module which allows simultaneous audio and video collaboration for individuals or groups of people.

As we continue to grow and build on this great network, we will continue to enhance the value, resources and availability of additional collaboration resources for our members. Adding that personal touch to the network will allow more value to our members in building on the networking and collaboration. We are working on some new enhancements that will allow live streaming of our meetings, events, online presentations and training sessions and that will be an additional value for all.

So stay tuned, stay secure and be aware of these resources and the development of this great network of education, awareness, training and collaboration. We look forward to your input, feedback and support.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~