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Security is Invisible and Customers won't Pay for Security

2008-01-25 19:06:11 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...aspect of a product before buying it. Unfortunately, security is just one aspect, buying a specific product vs. other products purely based on security is a pipe dream. In the distant future when all products have security built in, security won't be a differentiator anymore and visibility of security will diminish even further If security...
 
Tags: security, poor software security, software security, aspect, security aspect, security professionals, visible, highly visible, security visible
 
 
 
 
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Misconceptions about outsourcing security

2007-12-13 14:05:54 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...aspect of the outsourcing deal. You will never be able to transfer all the risk of data protection to your outsourcer but you can limit the amount of risk you take by developing right to audit clauses, Service level agreements and limited liability provisions in the contracts Since security services are getting commoditized, hire an...
 
Tags: security processes, establish security processes, security, processes, security controls, security managers cost, cost, security operations, security services
 
 
 
 
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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...aspects of IP; these are now readily available in one place for you to purchase. Please read on for more information on IP and the books associated with specific aspects of IP. Copyright Copyright is primarily concerned with the right to use a certain piece of information or a particular expression. Its main principle is that it allows the...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...aspect of the adversarys social, economic, and political life. Unrestricted warfare employs surprise and deception and uses both civilian technology and military weapons to break the opponents will Moreover, the 2007 edition is covering in-depth such popular asymmetric threats posed by jihadists (pages 135/143) debunking the use of WMD as a...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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Microsofts' spy patent can monitor even your heartbeat

2008-01-17 09:40:09 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Every aspect of computer users lives from their heartbeat to a guilty smile could be monitored and immediately analysed under the futuristic system detailed in Microsofts patent application. The systems work not only through desktop or laptop computers but even through mobile phones or handheld PCs
 
Tags: microsofts patent application, computer users lives, mobile phones, handheld pcs, guilty smile, futuristic system, laptop computers, heartbeat, desktop
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...aspect of the social and commercial transactions searching, browsing, networking, emailing and telephoning. This new situation, however, raises some critical issues about the sufficiency of companies disclosures, the level of consumers understanding and control of their personal information as well as the security and confidentiality of the...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...aspect, we took a sample of ~7 million URLs and mapped them to DMOZ categories. Although we found that adult web pages may increase the risk of exploitation, each DMOZ category was affected Malicious Content Injection To understand if malicious content on a web server is due to poor web server security, we analyzed the version numbers...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Malware Infected Hosts as Stepping Stones

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2008-02-21 22:03:01 by HASH0x8b1f7bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...aspect's always there to say, and vertically integrate since besides selling the product in the form of the tool for, they could eventually start coming up with various related, and of course malicious services in the form of spamming, phishing etc. It's perhaps more interesting to discuss the big picture. Once a great deal of these malware...
 
Tags: hosts, malware, socks hosts, malware infects hosts, top application, application, stones, top, activities
 
 
 
 
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To collaborate or not - this is NOT the question.

2008-01-11 15:24:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...aspect not touched upon explicitly is the data-centric perspective on meeting these challenges. I am a firm believer in de-perimeterization and think that we have to get to more granular controls at the data level with policies around encryption, access control and retention to effectively deal with these challenges
 
Tags: control collaboration, control, access control, data, data-centric perspective, challenge, data level, core challenge, compliance