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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
Take a few moments and indulge in a thought exercise with me. Consider your companys complete collection of information processing assetsall the computers, the networks theyre connected to, the applications you use, and the data and information you manipulate. Which of those is the most valuable? Whichif it suddenly and tragically disappeared...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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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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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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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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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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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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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/11/08 Organization Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS (PCT Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims PCT "clients Number Affected 148 Types of Data The information lost related to copies of assessments about future healthcare needs held in a secure central file. It included peoples names,...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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SaaS and data security - here is the rub

2008-02-27 16:33:13 by HASH0x8b6a018 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
One of the knocks against outsourcing applications and storage has always been control or rather the lack of it. Whether I am referring back to my Interliant days where we stored customers Lotus Notes and PeopleSoft financials data or Qualys storing their customers vulnerability data or as Douglas Schweitzer over at ComputerWorld points out ,...
 
Tags: data, peoplesoft financials data, customers vulnerability data, confidential medical data, sensitive data, vulnerability data, comfortable, people comfortable, people
 
 
 
 
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SaaS and data security - here is the rub

2008-02-27 17:32:58 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
One of the knocks against outsourcing applications and storage has always been control or rather the lack of it. Whether I am referring back to my Interliant days where we stored customers Lotus Notes and PeopleSoft financials data or Qualys storing their customers vulnerability data or as Douglas Schweitzer over at ComputerWorld points out ,...
 
Tags: data, peoplesoft financials data, customers vulnerability data, confidential medical data, sensitive data, vulnerability data, comfortable, people comfortable, people