TITSSN leverages the Twitter network for critical alerting, notification and network happenings (meetings and events) as of April 1st 2009

Link: http://titssn.net

Good day to you,

Over the past year I have been looking for a service that would allow us to create a centralized alerting system for critical security related news, alerts, notices and inter-network happenings (meetings, events, workshops). I have been studying the Twitter network and its growth, usability and service capabilities and I must say that I am very impressed by its sheer simplicity but extensive use and features. As the fastest growing social network today, Twitter allows the ease of signing up, connecting to other Twitter members, activating the SMS device notifications and the use of short text based updates.

This presents a number of possibilities that we can use to build a global alerting system that will aggregate all the various places where threat notification and alerts are being disseminated and channel them into our own system through Twitter. As a network of professionals, business executives and people of influence with high responsibility for critical infrastructures, we need a system that will allow the instant option of opting in and out of alerts and activating the mobile alerting system. It also needs to allow two way communications between the system and those who subscribe to it so in the event of something critical happening, we can have up-to-the-minute updates coming on from anyone anywhere.

For these reasons we have decided to use the Twitter network as our alerting and notification system for IT Security related outbreaks, threats and notices. It will also serve as a notification system for our events, meetings and happenings. Two separate accounts have been created to manage these alerts/notices.

Effective April 1st 2009, TITSSN’s ITSecureAlerts and TITSSNHappening have been activated as a part of the TITSSN v.2010 network upgrade.

Over the past few days we have experienced a heightened sense of alert and awareness from the Conficker worm and its pending effects on the target date of April 1st. There was such a need for pertinent development info and updates as the target day drew nearer, and even on the day that people were reaching out for any kind of heads up they could get, they were coming in from all over. Now we’re able to capture these and have them sent out in a prudent managed fashion. All future alerts and updates on such issues will be handled by the IT Security Alerts (ITSecureAlerts) notification system which will monitor the development and progress of these kinds of threats and post pertinent info for its followers.

TITSSNHappening will broadcast our event updates and happenings and will always maintain the current info for whatever is coming next from the network.

Please follow accordingly and help to spread the word to anyone who wants to be kept in the know in the event of such critical IT Security issues. We may not always have the luxury of time on our hands but we can have the luxury of a working system of alerts and collaboration in times of need.

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 | http://theitsecurityattache.com | Blogs http://theitsecurityattache.com/blogs
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~ | http://titssn.net | TITSSN’s Blogs http://titssn.net/blogs
Brett.Scudder@titssn.net (877) 539-8614 / (718) 928-6516
We are Security - your Security - our Security - IT Security. Our Security is Safe and Secure.
A Managed Security Services/Value Added Resellers Provider (MSS/VAR-P)
My LinkedIn profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/titssn | TITSSN’s IT Security Forum Board http://titssn.net/forum
Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/TITSSN | Facebook http://www.facebook.com/people/Brett-A-Scudder/1161704997