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Boston College converts chapel into high security data center

2008-10-13 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Boston College's IT department has gotten absolutely religious about securing data three years after a big breach made. So it might seem only fitting that the school's new data center resides inside a former chapel on land acquired from the Catholic Archdiocese
 
Tags: boston college, chapel, catholic archdiocese, data, absolutely religious, land, department, school, breach
 
 
 
 
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Black box for the enterprise protects data from terrorists, hurricanes

2008-10-13 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
A new disaster-recovery vendor is taking the concept of an airplane black box and adapting it to the enterprise to create a new way of protecting crucial data from natural disasters and terrorist attacks
 
Tags: airplane black box, natural disasters, enterprise, crucial data, terrorist attacks, concept, vendor
 
 
 
 
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World Bank denies report of massive data breaches

2008-10-12 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Count the World Bank Group among the high profile organizations suffering major data breaches - maybe
 
Tags: world bank, major data breaches, profile organizations, count
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...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 breach for a large size company is about $50,000. I am...
 
Tags: data owner perspective, data owner, data, thief, owner, data freshness factor, data protection costs, discourage data thief, protect data
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...data and information you manipulate. Which of those is the most valuable? Whichif it suddenly and tragically disappeared tomorrowwould jeopardize your companys ability to remain in business Thats right, its your data. Any of the other elements could easily be replaced. But if your data vanishes, well then, you might as well close up shop and...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...Data Protection Directive. The FTC is presently soliciting private sector comment on these principles and their impact on online commerce FTC-proposed Governing Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy To address the need for greater transparency and consumer control regarding privacy issues raised by behavioral advertising, the...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Whats next in Data Leakage Prevention - Keeping your barrels out of the water

2008-01-07 00:35:00 by Hugh Docherty in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Data Leakage and Insider Threat Summit in Orlando. The Summit included a variety of sessions where vendors, industry experts, and end users talked about their experience with Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) products. There were also plenty of networking opportunities to talk one on one with presenters and peers. I applaud SANS on the program...
 
Tags: data leakage prevention, data leakage, data, sensitive data resides, sensitive, data-centric approach, dlp, dlp vendors, electronic data
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...data shadow We leave data everywhere we go. It's not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing every credit card purchase and telephone call we make. It's automatic road-toll collection systems, supermarket affinity cards, ATMs and so on It's also our lives. Our love letters and friendly chat. Our personal...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-20 13:10:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...data shadow We leave data everywhere we go. It's not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing every credit card purchase and telephone call we make. It's automatic road-toll collection systems, supermarket affinity cards, ATMs and so on It's also our lives. Our love letters and friendly chat. Our personal...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers