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Chris Hinkley is a Senior Security Engineer at FireHost where he maintains and configures network security devices, and develops policies and procedures to secure customer servers and websites. Hinkley has been with FireHost since the company’s inception. In his various roles within the organization, he’s serviced hundreds of customer servers, including Windows and Linux, and overseen the security of hosting environments to meet PCI, HIPAA and other compliance guidelines.

Recent articles by Chris Hinkley

  • Making Sure Your Customers Aren't Causing Storms in Your Cloud
    A cloud infrastructure, no matter how expansive, needs to be planned in such a way that means customers can’t cause issues for other customers. In shared infrastructures, just one breach within the environment could open the door for hackers to wreak havoc on every entity inside.
  • Three Public Cloud Security Myths
    Cloud infrastructures can be secure, and they must be for the need is growing quite fast. In this vein, organizations don’t have to be fearful of public clouds. They just need to better understand them.
  • Web Application Firewalls: Three Benefits You May Not have Considered
    If you’re running on a limited budget or resource pool, you may have moved Web Application Firewalls into the “want to have” bucket out of the “need to have.” I suggest you take another look, and here are three reasons why.
  • Three Ways to Prevent Clickjacking
    In order to prevent your organization from falling prey to clickjacking attacks, you must start with the browser. The most likely scenario is that your users will become clickjacking victims during their normal Web activities.
  • Make Your Organization's Security Program Relevant in 2012
    Great security means first identifying your needs and then making a resolution to revamp or create your company’s plan for the New Year.
  • Four Things Every CIO Should Do as Habit
    There are some things that the best CIOs and IT managers can’t prevent entirely as they depend on other people. There are some things which every CIO has control over, however. Here are four things I wish every CIO would make into a habit when it comes to security.
  • Embracing Mobile Payments? You Might Not Be Compliant
    Mobile applications and the platforms they are built on make PA-DSS compliance difficult due to the rapidly evolving threat landscape. With increased attacks and their tragic affects on businesses and consumers, it's important to make make sure your mobile operations properly secured.
  • Social Media Makes Way for Social Engineering
    Businesses usually don’t think about social engineering when securing company data. It used to be believed that social engineering was reserved for governments and organizations with enemies. That's not the case anymore.
  • 2011 Hack Retrospective - Learning from Three Significant Attacks
    2011 has been a monumental year for hackers. Businesses as well as consumers felt the brunt of cybercrime by the millions, some of them a few times over. Here’s a look at the top hacks so far this year, and what we can learn from them.
  • Just Because Your Business is Compliant Doesn't Mean It's Secure
    Real security goes beyond compliance, and integrates with validation and security processes. This causes confusion for many organizations as they pursue compliance standards. So let’s break it down.