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OMG, Security ROI Comes Back - And It is Mad As Hell :-)

2008-03-11 00:58:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
OK, not really mad :-) In fact, pretty intelligent :-) But a new salvo has been fired in a "great security ROI war." Counter-salvos have been fired as well The salvo is the paper called The Fallacy of Information Security ROI by Jon Pols ("ISSA Journal", February 2008) where Jon argues against the ROI for security (since there is no money...
 
Tags: security, roi, security roi war, pro-roi counter-point, roi proponents, information security roi, roi war, issa journal, return
 
 
 
 
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Ten Back to School Security Tips

2008-08-26 14:46:01 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Ive already gotten a laptop from a teacher thats full of Spyware, and its just the first week of back to school clipped from www.enterpriseitplanet.com Ten Back to School Security Tips for Administrators With the start of school around the corner, many IT administrators have to prep their environments for the hordes of students that will...
 
Tags: school security tips, school, sites, unsavory sites, administrators, start, insist, laptop, entirety
 
 
 
 
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High-Tech Soldier Suit, Crawling Back From the Dead

2008-03-27 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Army's soldier suit of the future, once left for dead, appears to be crawling back to life
 
Tags: soldier suit, dead, future, army, life, appears
 
 
 
 
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Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption

2008-06-09 00:36:29 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption Ive recently become interested in measures that modern CPUs can take to prevent various types of memory corruption attacks. One such feature is the NX bit (as AMD calls it, XD is Intels term), which allows for...
 
Tags: dep, data execution prevention, memory corruption, windows, configure dep protection, configure, memory corruption attacks, vista, buffer overflows
 
 
 
 
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Ousted Air Force Secretary Looks Back in Cyber

2008-06-19 06:06:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Recently ousted Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne looks back on some of his achievements -- and settles some old scores. Noah Shachtman reports from the Air Force's Cyber Symposium
 
Tags: air force, noah shachtman reports, cyber symposium, scores, settles, recently, achievements
 
 
 
 
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Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption

2008-06-09 00:36:29 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption Iâve recently become interested in measures that modern CPUs can take to prevent various types of memory corruption attacks. One such feature is the NX bit (as AMD calls it, XD is Intelâs term), which allows...
 
Tags: dep, data execution prevention, memory corruption, windows, configure dep protection, configure, memory corruption attacks, vista, buffer overflows
 
 
 
 
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Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work

2008-10-10 06:35:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
According to a massive report from the National Research Council, data mining for terrorists doesn't work. Here's a good summary: The report was written by a committee whose members include William Perry, a professor at Stanford University; Charles Vest, the former president of MIT; W. Earl Boebert, a retired senior scientist at Sandia National...
 
Tags: data, synthetic population data, terrorists, program, program enters, research scientist, research, protect, microsoft research
 
 
 
 
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Workflow Services Context

2008-02-14 13:35:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
The cool new wsHttpContextBinding and friends silently manage a workflow instance id for you under the covers. The first time you make a request through one of these bindings, a workflow is created, and the instance id is sent back to the client via a SOAP header. It's then stored in the channel and sent back with every subsequent request so...
 
Tags: workflow, guid instanceid, guid, workflow instance, channel, instance, instanceid, instanceid guid, context
 
 
 
 
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Workflow Services Context

2008-02-14 20:35:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
The cool new wsHttpContextBinding and friends silently manage a workflow instance id for you under the covers. The first time you make a request through one of these bindings, a workflow is created, and the instance id is sent back to the client via a SOAP header. It's then stored in the channel and sent back with every subsequent request so...
 
Tags: workflow, guid instanceid, guid, workflow instance, channel, instance, instanceid, instanceid guid, context