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Data-Mining for Terrorists Not 'Feasible,' DHS-Funded Study Finds

2008-10-07 19:30:00 by Ryan Singel in Wired Security
 
Searching for terrorists in masses of electronic data doesn't work and will lead to unacceptable privacy invasions, a government-funded commission reported Tuesday. Instead, the government should carefully evaluate how it uses the same technology as book recommendation software, and update the nation's privacy laws
 
Tags: unacceptable privacy invasions, book recommendation software, terrorists, electronic data, privacy laws, nation, government, lead, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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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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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
 
I recently attended the SANS WhatWorks in Stopping 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...
 
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
 
In the information age, we all have a 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...
 
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
 
In the information age, we all have a 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...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/18/07 Organization HM Customs and Revenue (HMRC Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Countrywide Assured pension customers Number Affected 6,548 Types of Data Names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers*, and pension contributions equivalent to Social Security numbers...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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Transparency in Government: Just Give us the Data!

2008-06-02 20:34:54 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
Interesting blog post at Freedom to Tinker about government releasing the raw data . It makes the security geek in me cringe because well, most of the data that the government has is PII, and I know that the typical government reaction is to say not only no, but h*ll no!! I mean, after all, most of our goal in the Government is to keep the data...
 
Tags: data, government, raw data, government data, typical government reaction, data sets, transparent government, data presentation, government loses control
 
 
 
 
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Lost laptop = Lost data!

2007-08-18 08:28:15 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Laptop has become our essential travel companion. Lost brand new laptop without personal or company data will result in a loss of current market value of the laptop. Lost laptop with personal or company data can result in a loss which can depend on the value of the "data". It is easier to make amends for the lost laptop but making amends for...
 
Tags: data, lost data, lost, lost laptop, laptop, laptop data aware, lost brand, aware, laptop security device
 
 
 
 
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Data security and the "chasm of protection"

2008-06-17 13:25:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
I was thinking a bit more about the notion of data-centric or information-centric security and why this is absolutely the future of data protection Say you are a retailer. You have data in your POS devices, encrypted with the POS application as cards are read in. As this data is required by another application, it has to be first decrypted so...
 
Tags: protection, data, data protection, data centers, data element, application, pos application, data-centric, in-store application
 
 
 
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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