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The role of control depth in assessment quality

2007-09-12 12:17:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...dig deeper. It's not enough to ask whether regular backups are taken and stored offsite. You have to ask how often. You have to ask where the tapes are stored before being transported offsite (hint: "under the receptionist's desk" isn't going to cut it). You have to ask whether backup tapes are encrypted. You have to ask whether backups are...
 
Tags: audit, external sox audit, physical security, security audit, questions, pretty in-depth questions, dig deeper, control, surface
 
 
 
 
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When is 4 out of 5 stars is not 4 out of 5 stars or do I have a car for you!

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2008-07-21 23:47:46 by HASH0x8b76ffc in StillSecure, After All These Years
...dig into the rating here are some interesting facts In actuality, our friends the used car salesmen only received a 2 star rating in ease of use, a 2 star rating in documentation and a 3 star rating in support. In contrast StillSecure Safe Access received 5 stars across the board, except for a 4 star grade in documentation. How both products...
 
Tags: car, master car salesman, car salesman, car sales guys, nac device, star, star grade, nac, products
 
 
 
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...dig Those who may have been potentially affected by this compromise will receive a notification letter The data was held on a Web application server that allowed external entities an unauthorized level of access without going through the required authentication process if the Web address was known That situation has since been remedied ...
 
Tags: tricare, information, personal information, code review, by-line code review, information security, tricare beneficiaries, beneficiaries, breach
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...dig up with your search, email, phone, and financial data at the fingertips of the established power base. Just because we use this data now to optimize search engines or hunt for terrorists, does not preclude malicious usage in the future, on a scale we can not imagine non facias malum ut inde fiat bonum Eric Marvets
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy
 
 
 
 
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Benefit of Security and Privacy Collaboration

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2007-10-25 22:39:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...dig around and find a chart with some of the information that Ben displayed (from Microsoft Security and Privacy Research page, if you want to see the full results and other research The summary of the chart is that if the Security and Privacy organizations have good collaboration, there was a much lower incidence of data breach. In...
 
Tags: security, collaboration, privacy research page, chart, research, chart leapt, microsoft security, rsa europe, poor collaboration
 
 
 
 
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July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

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2007-08-16 22:47:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...dig in and catch up to July. I hit a few road bumps Sun changed their Security Alerts web site, making it a bit more challenging. I gave up for now, but will try to add them back with subsequent scorecards Novell, in a similar but different move, created a new psdb page for their version Enterprise Linux v10 SP1 products. At first, I thought...
 
Tags: server, linux server builds, server charts, charts, ytd charts, non-linux products, linux products, linux products comments, common server roles
 
 
 
 
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Evil Silos

2008-01-24 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...dig in many places at once, wait, grep , suffer with many UIs, swear more - and have a time of your life in general! :-) All of the above instead of connecting to your shiny new log management system and running a few reports, drilldowns and searches across the relevant logs Ideally, you'd fight the evil and break down the silo walls by...
 
Tags: network ids logs, logs, relevant logs, download logs, ugly logs, router logs, log management platform, log management, evil
 
 
 
 
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Do me a favor and check out my Intense Debate comment system

2008-02-12 19:17:26 by HASH0x8baa350 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...dig in and make it work. However, I tried activating it again tonight and I think I have it working pretty well. If you would do me a favor leave a comment to this post and lets see how it scales The idea behind Intense Debate is really pretty cool and I was talking to Brad yesterday about some ideas for using Intense Debate in some of the...
 
Tags: intense, blog, blog comments, comment, friend brad feld, pretty cool, pretty, favor, meantime check
 
 
 
 
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Do me a favor and check out my Intense Debate comment system

2008-02-12 20:17:13 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...dig in and make it work. However, I tried activating it again tonight and I think I have it working pretty well. If you would do me a favor leave a comment to this post and lets see how it scales The idea behind Intense Debate is really pretty cool and I was talking to Brad yesterday about some ideas for using Intense Debate in some of the...
 
Tags: intense, blog, blog comments, comment, friend brad feld, pretty cool, pretty, favor, meantime check