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Hello from Clearwater Beach and the Competitive Intelligence MindXchange

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2008-02-05 07:28:49 by HASH0x8b80e4c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Competitive Intelligence MindXchange hosted by Frost & Sullivan. The F&S folks invited me down to speak on CI based on some of the stuff they read in my blog. I was flattered and since it wasn't that far from home agreed to appear. The conference has opened my eyes to huge effort that many companies especially larger public companies are...
 
Tags: larger public companies, companies, gather market intelligence, beautiful clearwater beach, global focus, huge effort, core discipline, mindshare, conference
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...competitive gain Some other interesting news items have appeared in the recent past 1. Germanys respected weekly, Der Spiegel , reported that China was thought to have hacked into the computer systems of Germanys chancellery, as well as systems at three ministries, infecting the networks with spy programs. The alleged attacks occurred just...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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Does this sound familiar?

2008-03-31 21:01:09 by HASH0x8b6b9c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...competitive Upgrade on NAC Competitive Upgrade Program Available to All NAC Customers Seeking a Stable NAC Vendor Superior, Colo. January 11, 2008 ) StillSecure, provider of secure network infrastructure software, today announced a Competitive Upgrade program for NAC users that allows customers using products from Vernier Networks and others...
 
Tags: nac, nac users, nac software, nac customers, nac product, nac products, competitive upgrade program, stable nac vendor, competitive upgrade
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...competitive equilibrium Competitive market equilibrium is the traditional concept of economic equilibrium, appropriate for the analysis of commodity markets with flexible prices and many traders, and serving as the benchmark of efficiency in economic analysis. It relies crucially on the assumption of a competitive environment where each...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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The asymmetry of data loss - data thief has an upper hand

2008-10-01 06:33:22 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...competitive disadvantage From the data thief's perspective Net Gain= [Cost of producing the data * Data freshness factor] - Cost to steal the data + Profit of business due to data aka gain of competitive advantage From the above two equations it is very clear that this is not a zero sum game. There is a clear cost asymmetry for a data owner...
 
Tags: data owner perspective, data owner, data, thief, owner, data freshness factor, data protection costs, discourage data thief, protect data
 
 
 
 
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Blurring the Lines Between Managed Service Provider and Cloud Computing

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2008-11-25 14:20:47 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...competitive advantage in a crowded marketplace VSPP for vCloud provides a rental model of VMware licenses e.g., for Enterprise ESX or VDI. VMware Service Providers report on their customers virtual machines (vm) and pay only for what is actually used. This model lets Opus Interactive quickly spin up a vm to get a new customer up and running...
 
Tags: cloud, cloud hype, hype, cloud-ready announcements, cloud solutions, announcements, vmware vcloud initiative, ready, vmware
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...competitive advantages. While some argue that Goldman Sachs got lucky on many of its assumptions, the company has a history of aggressive, intelligent risk taking. The lesson here, whether evaluating investments, business partners, emerging markets, or new technologies, is to effectively measure and understand risk exposure to know when its...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Problems with AskEraser

2007-12-21 11:18:10 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Last week, Ask.com announced a feature called AskEraser (good description here), which erases a user's search history. While it's great to see companies using privacy features for competitive advantage, EPIC examined the feature and wrote to the company with some
 
Tags: feature, competitive advantage, askeraser, privacy features, history, week, epic, companies, erases
 
 
 
 
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PCI Data Collection: Your CVV isn't special

2007-08-22 00:00:00 by Manju Mude in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...competitive business edge? Some merchants have no choice but to collect and store card data for extended periods of time, for bookkeeping, transmission or customer service needs. Additionally, an extremely limited number of them may even have to collect CVV2 information, to ease the customer experience. PCI is very clear about forbidding the...
 
Tags: collect cvv2 information, cvv2 information, information, collect, store card data, competitive business edge, encrypt data, audit results, customer experience