During a Steering Committee planning call for IANS’ Lone Star Information Security Forum in mid-June, Chairman and Keynote speaker James Beeson raised a very interesting point that I hope all security professionals will consider seriously: ...
Published: May 25, 2011 - 08:13
In yesterday's post we examined the elements comprising the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's recently reported data breach that exposed a great deal of PII from an as-yet-unknown number of clients of their Unemployment...
Published: May 24, 2011 - 07:39
Every time I turn on the news it seems we are hearing about another serious data breach where customer information is being compromised and the organizations in question are very slow to react. I will admit that given my...
Published: May 20, 2011 - 10:03
In the early 2000’s businesses were debating whether or not to allow laptops onto their corporate networks. Moving from a desktop to a laptop environment was a major change of operations for IT and (likely nascent) security groups. But once in motion, the trend continued and today, mid 2011, it’s practically unheard of for a company of any repute to not allow laptops network access.
So...
Published: May 18, 2011 - 08:43
Consumer demand is driving the apps market.
In IANS’ April Enterprise Client Briefing, Faculty Hart Rossman pointed out that Apple’s AppStore doubled its offering to almost 300,000 apps by the end of 2010 and Google's Android Market is now 6 times...
Published: May 17, 2011 - 12:27
Is privacy an extremely important value that needs to be protected? This was the question in debate at the Senate Judiciary panel last Tuesday during which Google and Apple defended the collection of location-based functionality on consumers’ smartphones. Back in late April it was revealed to the public that data about iPhone and Android users’ locations was being stored on consumers'...
Published: May 6, 2011 - 08:10
Risk. On a daily basis we assume risk at a personal level without too much thought – we drive our cars at high speeds down the highway, we cross the street against traffic lights, we eat food prepared by strangers, we send our kids to schools run by people we’ve met (maybe) once or twice. Yet as information security professionals we’re still hyper focused on everything that can go wrong at our...
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