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Assessing the Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

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2008-07-21 07:00:15 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Decrease evidence acquisition time : if a server in the Cloud gets compromised (i.e. broken into), I can now clone that server at the click of a mouse and make the cloned disks instantly available to my Cloud Forensics server. I didnt need to find storage or have it ready, waiting and unused - its just there Eliminate or reduce service...
 
Tags: benefits, cloud, security, technical security benefits, based, virtualization based cloud, efficient security software, security software, cloud market
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...decrease in volatility will lower the option value. So if Credit Suisse was the one who "bought" the stock options via the reverse convertible structure, a decrease in volatility will decrease option value and will result into a mark-to-market loss on their end Now as market makers (structurers), shouldn't Credit Suisse be hedging their...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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New faces and predictions for the New Year...

2008-01-22 22:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...decrease when expressed as percentage of overall CVE vulnerabilities in 2008 A query of the NVD with "Vendor=Microsoft", "Start Date= January 2007", and "End Date=December 2007" returns 254 matches. A query of NVD without selecting any vendor, and choosing "Start Date= January 2007", and "End Date=December 2007" returns 6532 matches. If my...
 
Tags: sdl team, team, sdl, sdl blog crew, cve, cve vulnerabilities, microsoft, single prediction, microsoft products
 
 
 
 
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RSA Impressions - 1

2008-04-08 14:33:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...decrease the loss ... It does suck, doesn't And then you meet somebody honest who sells incident response tools :-) And it has been proven that good incident response tools and practices decrease incident loss. Easy, huh About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: stop loss, stop, loss, security vendors, security, control, incident response tools, survey, horror
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report 2H07

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2008-04-23 14:03:16 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...decreased by about 5 percent in 2007, reversing a multiyear trend of increasing disclosures. Almost all of this decrease was observed in the second half of the year, which had the fewest disclosures since 2H05 Despite the decrease, the number of new disclosures across the industry remains in the thousands, with the number of disclosures in...
 
Tags: score vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, report, security intelligence report, high-severity vulnerabilities, trend, disclosures, level trend chart, vulnerability disclosures
 
 
 
 
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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
...decrease it to boost prices for the stolen credit card details, also indicating the existence of underground cartels putting everyone in a "price taker" position The basics of demand and supply for anything underground will always apply unless of course, The more they want, the cheaper it gets, the less they want, the higher the price on per...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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When Will the Media Industry Embrace the BORA Principle?

2007-03-22 10:06:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...decrease the exploitability of the entity once compromised Many industries have fought BORA, which is akin to fighting gravity. I can think of three this morning, namely the software, credit card, and media industries. Its infuriating to think of all the revenue lost and the exorbitant externalities bore by an unassuming public all because...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, credit card industry, credit card fraud, industry, media industry, cut fraud, fraud, credit cards
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - 1st Half 2007

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2007-10-23 16:35:43 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...decrease from 2H06, the first period-to-period decline in total vulnerabilities since 2003 Note however, another trend as shown in the chart. High severity vulnerabilities continue to grow significantly, while the overall total flattened out. In the full report, you'll also note a trend reversal with complexity to exploit dropping as well...
 
Tags: total vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, report, severity vulnerabilities continue, software vulnerabilities, malicious software, sir results, software, results
 
 
 
 
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Who Benefits from Log Standards? Part II - Application Developers

2007-12-04 17:28:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...decrease cost associated with logging and reuse log libraries. Vendors could move away from encouraging developers from picking log messages on a closest-fit basis from a limited, product-specific message index. Furthermore, the generation of these log messages could be bases on a single API call. Also product interoperability will increase...
 
Tags: application software vendors, software vendors, log standards, standards, vendors, log management vendors, log management, developers, log management people