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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
WebAuthn, FIDO2 Infuse Browsers, Platforms with Strong Authentication
John Fontana, Standards & Identity Analyst, Yubico,  9/19/2018
Turn the NIST Cybersecurity Framework into Reality: 5 Steps
Mukul Kumar & Anupam Sahai, CISO & VP of Cyber Practice and VP Product Management, Cavirin Systems,  9/20/2018
NSS Labs Files Antitrust Suit Against Symantec, CrowdStrike, ESET, AMTSO
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  9/19/2018
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CVE-2018-17338
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-23
An issue has been found in pdfalto through 0.2. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function TextPage::dump in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.
CVE-2018-17341
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-23
BigTree 4.2.23 on Windows, when Advanced or Simple Rewrite routing is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a ..\ substring, as demonstrated by a launch.php?bigtree_htaccess_url=admin/images/..\ URI.
CVE-2018-17332
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-22
An issue was discovered in libsvg2 through 2012-10-19. The svgGetNextPathField function in svg_string.c returns its input pointer in certain circumstances, which might result in a memory leak caused by wasteful malloc calls.
CVE-2018-17333
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-22
An issue was discovered in libsvg2 through 2012-10-19. A stack-based buffer overflow in svgStringToLength in svg_types.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because sscanf is misused.
CVE-2018-17334
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-22
An issue was discovered in libsvg2 through 2012-10-19. A stack-based buffer overflow in the svgGetNextPathField function in svg_string.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because a strncpy copy limit is miscalculated.