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Cost of vulnerability

2007-03-05 21:19:05 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Early in my career, I had this interesting experience that I would like to share. I worked with a software engineer / architect who was extremely brilliant. He was equally arrogant too I found a very serious vulnerability in his code where a hacker could easily hijack a user session. I set up a demo scenario for this and walked up to his office...
 
Tags: vulnerability, vulnerability determines, cost, demo scenario, easily, easily hijack, extremely brilliant, preserve company, bullet proof
 
 
 
 
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Cost/Benefit of Terrorism Security

2008-09-12 06:32:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
The terrifying cost of feeling safer ," from the Sydney Morning Herald : Sandler and his colleagues conducted an analysis of the costs and benefits of five different approaches to combating terrorism. I must warn you that, because of the dearth of information, this study is even more reliant on assumptions than usual. Even so, in three cases the...
 
Tags: measures involves costs, costs, measures, cost, benefits, produce benefits, pro-active measures, entail costs, additional defensive measures
 
 
 
 
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Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected
 
Tags: theft, identity-theft protection, cost local officials, laptop, nashville, social security, us1 million, roll, voters
 
 
 
 
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Hospitals reduce cost of electronic medical records

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
Replacing paper medical records with electronic ones can reduce errors, and save lives, but cost and complexity prevents most doctors from upgrading
 
Tags: paper medical records, cost, complexity prevents, reduce errors, save lives, electronic, doctors
 
 
 
 
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The cost of a code signing certificate

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2008-01-17 07:31:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
In my recent post about Windows Live OneCare Firewall and Security, I mentioned that code signing certificates aren't cheap. If you look at the major vendors like VeriSign and Thawte , you'll find they charge between $500 and $300 for a cert that's valid for a year Scott commented that you can get cheap code-signing certs, as Jon Robbins points...
 
Tags: code, cheap, cheap code, cert, root store, root, philosophical question, issue, install
 
 
 
 
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Addressing Cost Issues in the Ever-Changing World of Compliance

2008-07-25 00:00:00 by Paul Davilman in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
We keep hearing from analysts that the cost of compliance should go down each year but unfortunately our customers are telling us the exact opposite. They are continuing to get slammed by new regulations and feel compelled to implement all types of point products & solutions in order to meet immediate needs
 
Tags: compliance, cost, exact opposite, types, regulations, implement, analysts, solutions, customers
 
 
 
 
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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
 
I read this awesome book by Dan Geer, Economics and Strategies of Data Security . This gave me structure for my thoughts about a complex topic such as data security When a data owner's (a business) sensitive data is breached it is difficult to quantify the monetary loss. According to respectable survey sources, the average cost of sensitive data...
 
Tags: data owner perspective, data owner, data, thief, owner, data freshness factor, data protection costs, discourage data thief, protect data
 
 
 
 
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VMWare is Better Than Microsoft

2008-09-15 23:00:12 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
After barely surviving the VMworld registration process, my first session was From Hypervisors to VMware Infrastructure What Matters? or as I would have called it why VMware is so much better than Microsoftand if you dont believe that we can help you make even more money on top of your already successful Microsoft business. (I know, that title...
 
Tags: vmware, microsoft, survey, vmware survey, vmware enhances, vmware infrastructure, test, vmware test, overtime cost 2hrs
 
 
 
 
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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach The Breach Blog Month in Review November, 2007 Thirty-nine (39) breaches were reported on the The Breach Blog during the month of November, 2007 compared with thirty-five (35) during the month of October. November ranks second to September (44) in the number of breaches reported in a month, since The Breach Blog...
 
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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Schneier has a very interesting post on Information Security and Externalities . Below is the highlight of the article The software vendors have little economic incentive in churning out a secure product in the current marketplace. Holding a software liable (to an extent) for not making a secure product can not only force the software vendor to...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
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