Protect everything? Is that a better DLP?
...information-centric protection without any differentiation based on understanding the content
Could/should DLP be redefined, thus
Data Protection, Management and Leakage
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2% of all laptops sold every year are stolen from airports?
...security checkpoints, according to the survey
Over 630K laptops lost each year just within airports! From IDC's Quarterly PC tracker (Dec 2007) we see that over 31M laptops were projected to be sold in 2007. This means that over 2% of all laptops sold in the US were lost or stolen from airports
Hard to believe. Am I exaggerating or is this...
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Data breaches and gas prices..
Seems like the growth rate is the same - IRTC (Identity Theft Resource Center ) just released some interesting stats . Apparently number of breaches in the first half of 2008 have risen 69% over the same period in 2007. Maybe gas prices have increased a bit more, but not by much
Also other interesting nuggets
Almost 40% have not disclosed the...
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Share, but share insecurely?
...information within and without in an insecure way! Here we are, locking down data at rest within the company. However, as it leaves the safe haven - it is sent out in the clear
This is where I think a more information-centric approach can help - protect the data rather than the devices and wherever the data goes, the protection follows. A...
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The "IT admin bad guy"? Not sure I buy it much..
The recent survey on IT Admins misusing privileges might be accurate - but am not sure I buy it much. I'd like to see some of the questions as well
Most of the IT admins I have met with have a sense of the responsibility that comes with their power. True, there might be some bad eggs or apples in the bunch, but overall I think they are...
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I spy - employees snooping around?
Apparently many employees ( nearly half ) have the habit of snooping around within the company. This according to a new research study by Cyber-Ark . Many gain access using privileged accounts such as administrator or root passwords, which the research found were not changed that often
Cyber-Ark said privileged passwords get changed far less...
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Medical records - the new frontier in data theft?
...information out there - this is depressing prices all over the world for this data! The laws of supply/demand are taking over and making this a commodity. For example, not too long ago, prices for a valid credit card/bank card with a pin was $100 and now with the flood of such products, the prices have come down to $10-20 range
The logical...
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Medical records under threat
...information etc - and get this, it was available for purchase for the highest bidder
By now all of us are aware that hackers are no longer kids looking for laughs or thrills - they are the new criminal organizations. These organizations make it a business buying and selling data - be it credit cards, bank account information etc
I suspect...
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Data security and the "chasm of protection"
...information-centric security and why this is absolutely the future of data protection
Say you are a retailer. You have data in your POS devices, encrypted with the POS application as cards are read in. As this data is required by another application, it has to be first decrypted so this in-store application can read it. It may then encrypt...