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An Overture to the 2007 CEP Blog Awards

2008-01-09 11:09:46 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...category process-basedevent processing or control-based event processingand might actually do so in the future. As always, your comments and feedback are important and appreciated Rule-based (or process-based) event processing is a major subcategory of event processing.Rule-based approaches to event processing are very useful for stateful...
 
Tags: term intelligent event, term, intelligent event, event, event processingand, event stream, event streams, category ai-capable event, event processingwill
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...category was composed of write access violations, read access violations on EIP, /GS and NX related access violations and read access violations where any one of the following was true The access violation happens on a rep assembly instruction (on an Intel processor) where the count register (ecx) is large The access violation happens on a...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Camouflage in Squids

2008-02-22 16:09:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...category is a uniform color. Cephalopods take on this camouflage to match a smooth-textured background. The second category consists of mottled patterns that help them hide in busier environments. Dr. Hanlon calls the third category disruptive patterning. A cuttlefish creates large blocks of light and dark on its skin. This camouflage...
 
Tags: camouflage, camouflage patterns, cephalopods disguise, cephalopods, cephalopods camouflage, category consists, category, patterns, category disruptive
 
 
 
 
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Obstacles For Information Security & Risk Management

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2008-03-06 13:51:34 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...Category of Obstacles that organizations must overcome if they are going to reach a decent solution to the problems they face. However, whereas Deming wrote these for individual businesses, I think of these in context of our general industry. My comments are generalizations, to be sure, but I think these characterizations are not without...
 
Tags: risk, lesser category, demings lesser category, obstacles, operational risk, data, consumer data, industry, prescriptive isms
 
 
 
 
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Maslow's heirarchy of security posture?

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2007-07-08 17:22:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...category. There are companies that have realized the importance of security since customers have started demanding security in their products [Why would you buy a book from a small online book vendor vs. Amazon? A small online vendor has to work harder to convince customers about security]. These are the companies that are drafting a security...
 
Tags: security posture, basic security posture, security, basic security, security practices, handle security incidents, security exists, security components, security program
 
 
 
 
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Buffer Overflows are like Hospital-Acquired Infections?

2007-09-16 12:35:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...category are Common hospital-acquired infections Urinary tract infections for example are extremely rare when proper protocols are followed Blatant surgical errors Tools left in patient for example. There are easy ways to make 100% sure this doesn't happen. What is most interesting I think is that historically there have been problems with...
 
Tags: buffer overflows, infections, patient, buffer overflows tricky, errors, patient differences, avoidable errors, tricky, blatant surgical errors
 
 
 
 
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Should We Treat Contractors The Same as Employees?

2008-03-26 13:47:43 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...category well call W-2s and those who are contractors into a category well call 1099s (for international readers, those are the types of US govt forms you have to fill out to work for a company Now we have this distribution of W-2s to consider. We know, that given enough W-2s and enough time - eventually one or more of them will create what...
 
Tags: threat, threat communities, threat agent applies, threat agents, threat event results, threat community, employees, risk tolerance, risk
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...category of management, information security managers should organize and implement the organizations information security program, including its monitoring (testing) program Although business managers often try to assign information security responsibilities to an information security management function, all parts of the organization have...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters

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2007-12-29 11:30:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...category the organization is in. Until consumers demand more, business as usual Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: voters, davidson county voters, davidson county, tennessee voters, information technology department, information, voters monitor, sensitive personal information, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Oracle to Buy BEA Systems for $8.5 Billion

2008-01-16 14:00:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog