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Cost/Benefit Analysis of Airline Security

2008-07-21 05:53:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...benefits of United States aviation security measures" by Mark Stewart and John Mueller, is excellent reading: The United States Office of Management and Budget has recommended the use of cost-benefit assessment for all proposed federal regulations. Since 9/11 government agencies in Australia, United States, Canada, Europe and elsewhere have...
 
Tags: cost-effective, cost-effective security measure, cost, cost-effective measure, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis, additional cost, cost-benefit assessment, benefit
 
 
 
 
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Assessing the Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

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2008-07-21 07:00:15 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...benefits of Cloud Computing In my view, there are some strong technical security arguments in favour of Cloud Computing - assuming we can find ways to manage the risks With this new paradigm come challenges and opportunities. The challenges are getting plenty of attention - Im regularly afforded the opportunity to comment on them, plus...
 
Tags: benefits, cloud, security, technical security benefits, based, virtualization based cloud, efficient security software, security software, cloud market
 
 
 
 
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Flattery will get you nowhere

2008-04-04 18:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...benefits it will have for some large profit making organisation. I don't think it's an unreasonable question. I'm very selective about what I give my time to - after all I also have a family to keep happy, a full time job, and interests in things other than security (yes - really!). So, when somebody comes to me and says "we'd like you to...
 
Tags: valuable time, time, time job, industry colleagues, industry, organisation, international organisation, industry peers, elses business plan
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Shoplifting

2008-09-07 07:30:15 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...benefit). If we are detecting shoplifting in Walmart the cost-benefit model for implementing an automated shoplifting detection system would be different than at a top diamond store on 5th Avenue in NYC. Protecting loss at a weapons-grade uranium respository follows a different model than protecting loss at a handicraft shop, naturally Like...
 
Tags: store, store-object, complex, model canget complex, model, simple, simple economics, simple model, object
 
 
 
 
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Jim Harper Responds to My Comments on Fingerprinting Foreigners at the Border

2008-12-12 06:21:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...benefit! They are at best a mild inconvenience to terrorists -- an inconvenience that the 9/11 attacks mostly anticipated. But that's not zero benefit! It's just negligible benefit
 
Tags: border, biometric border security, border biometrics, benefit, negligible benefit, mild inconvenience, inconvenience, attacks, terrorists
 
 
 
 
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Security is not all about Security Updates

2007-12-17 12:58:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...benefit of the SDL, you must apply the SDL to a product at its inception . With the exception of Windows XP SP2, (which was a security-focused release, but predates the SDL), service packs at Microsoft include fixes and perhaps some opportunistic feature enhancements requested by customers. Such releases cannot get the full benefit of the...
 
Tags: security, end-user security documentation, security response, fix security bugs, response, security fix, implementation vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, security feature development
 
 
 
 
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Want Great Technology? Buy TIBCO (TIBX)

2008-01-18 11:42:27 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...benefit from the acquisition Citigroups John Reilly Walsh upgraded TIBCO (TIBX) shares to Buy from Hold based on Oracles purchase of BEA. John thinks TIBCO, the last real middleplayer on the block, will also be purchased, and names IBM as the most likely candidate, but adds that SAP, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , Oracle (ORCL) , Sun Microsystems...
 
Tags: tibco, tibco spends, ibm buys tibco, tibco culture, tibco employess, oracle buys tibco, sun buys tibco, challenge oracle, oracle
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...benefit Yahoos Web 2.0 applications. In fact, Ill take it a step further and state that adoption of the SDL would benefit anyones Web 2.0 applications. In my next SDL blog post, Ill be addressing the trickiest aspect of implementing the SDL for Web 2.0: developing the perpetual beta
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...benefit of dual-use technologies But I want governments to do more. I want them to use their buying power to improve my security. I want them to offer countrywide contracts for software, both security and non-security, that have explicit security requirements. If these contracts are big enough, companies will work to modify their products to...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...benefit of dual-use technologies But I want governments to do more. I want them to use their buying power to improve my security. I want them to offer countrywide contracts for software, both security and non-security, that have explicit security requirements. If these contracts are big enough, companies will work to modify their products to...