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Senior Lead Certification Instructor & Courseware Developer, The Training Camp
Member Since: 12/12/2015
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Barbara Johnson is an authorized senior and lead certification instructor and courseware developer for The Training Camp, International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² and The Business Continuity Institute and is chairman of (ISC)² Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) Committee.

Barbara also provides information security and business continuity management consulting services to U.S. government agencies, defense contractors, entertainment, finance, healthcare, technology and travel information services. Her expertise includes developing governance and designing risk-based controls to protect corporate proprietary, personal privacy, and government information from fraud, misuse, intrusion and interruption. She strategizes enterprise-wide security architectures, establishes information protection and business continuity programs, devises information security policies, standardizes technologies and processes, and creates relevant education, training and awareness workshops and collateral.

Her risk and control frameworks include ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA-HITECH and PCI. Barbara's credentials include: BSIE (IIT), MBA (LMU), CISSP, ISSMP, CISA, CBCP, CBCI and MBCI.
Articles by Barbara Johnson
Cybersecurity's 'Broken' Hiring Process
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  10/11/2017
Ransomware Grabs Headlines but BEC May Be a Bigger Threat
Marc Wilczek, Digital Strategist & CIO Advisor,  10/12/2017
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CVE-2017-0290
Published: 2017-05-09
NScript in mpengine in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine with Engine Version before 1.1.13704.0, as used in Windows Defender and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (type confusion and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code within ...

CVE-2016-10369
Published: 2017-05-08
unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (preventing terminal launch), or possibly have other impact (bypassing terminal access control).

CVE-2016-8202
Published: 2017-05-08
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate the privileges of user accounts accessing the system via command line interface. With affected version...

CVE-2016-8209
Published: 2017-05-08
Improper checks for unusual or exceptional conditions in Brocade NetIron 05.8.00 and later releases up to and including 06.1.00, when the Management Module is continuously scanned on port 22, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reload) of the management module.

CVE-2017-0890
Published: 2017-05-08
Nextcloud Server before 11.0.3 is vulnerable to an inadequate escaping leading to a XSS vulnerability in the search module. To be exploitable a user has to write or paste malicious content into the search dialogue.