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Data breach target: You 07/10/2008 09:36:00
Don't be the last to find out you're a victim.Heard about a competitor's security being breached? Then you're probably next. In fact, you may already be owned. - +
The privacy policy problem, Part 4: Reality hits home 02/10/2008 12:40:00
Protecting privacy can be complexIn the last three columns, I’ve been looking at the complexities of protecting client or prospect privacy (personally identifiable information or PII) in an interconnected world. - +
How to minimize the impact of a data breach 01/10/2008 08:54:00
ID Experts' Rick Kam describes a customer-centric action planThirty-one percent of customers--nearly one-third of a company's client base and revenue source--are terminating their relationship with organizations following a data breach, according to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute. - +
Can you keep users from importing their own applications? 01/10/2008 10:15:00
Shadow IT is all the IT that was neither planned nor approved by anyone but gets chosen, deployed and used by end usersThere's IT, and then there's shadow IT. - +
Can we really stop malicious insiders? 30/09/2008 08:48:00
Detection of insiders committing fraud requires broad event collection, robust analytics, and mechanisms that remove false positives.In terms of malicious insiders committing fraud, can anything "really" be done? - +
What does the financial meltdown mean for security? 29/09/2008 10:25:00
Bill Brenner wonders if it's irrational or appropriate to make connections between the current financial crisis and the state of securityAt first, this was going to be a column about the PR machine's hyperbolic efforts to connect the state of IT and security with the current financial crisis. Indeed, some have shamelessly sent me story pitches that try to get some bang out of the Wall Street meltdown. - +
Who is behind that Gmail account? 23/09/2008 14:13:00
Researchers have identified numerous methods to recover the names behind GMail accounts and it seems that more are uncovered every day.Who is the real identity behind that Gmail account? While finding out may not be as easy as knowing who is behind chunkylover53@aol.com (Homer Simpson, for the curious), it apparently isn't much harder. - +
The privacy policy problem, Part 3: Opting out of opting out 23/09/2008 10:56:00
A look at opt-out policies in general, and one in particularIn my most recent two columns, I've been discussing privacy policies. Today I want to look at some of the issues that can occur when you work with other organizations whose policies may differ from yours. - +
How not to manage lost passwords 22/09/2008 10:15:00
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Sarah Palin demonstrates the peril of webmail 18/09/2008 12:35:00
A hacked webmail account highlights the risk of trusting too much information to a service that may not be as secure as you.If you needed any more reminders about why it isn't a good idea to use external mail services to conduct critical business, the recent break-in to US Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's gov.palin@yahoo.com Yahoo inbox should be it. Of note is that following the disclosure of the inboxes the compromised address and another address, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, have been suspended. - +
Making role management work for the enterprise 18/09/2008 10:22:00
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.Many IT security professionals still regard role-based access and identity management as hopelessly complex because the predominantly manual approach used to review and manage roles is not scalable and the dynamic nature of roles themselves often get out of sync with reality.
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