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Online safety is truly worth the effort

2008-05-07 00:01:51 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Effort clipped from gadgetpedia.net Youre proud of yourself. You installed the latest and greatest antivirus software when you bought your last computer, and youve kept it current with the latest virus definitions. You have your operating system set to auto-update and install all the new security patches. Youre careful about what you...
 
Tags: anti-virus program set, effort, worth, safe online, system set, net, hard drive, virus definitions, gadgetpedia
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management and Analysis Standards Update

2008-06-17 16:51:27 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...efforts with UNIX or SOA or helping the Jericho Forum. Youll recall that a while back I had mentioned that RMI was working withThe Open Group, and todays announcement is a culmination of about a year and a half worth of effort there. Today The Open Group formally announces our (were members) intent to put a stake in the ground concerning risk...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management departments, risk management effort, standards, risk, risk management efforts, risk management issues, security standards, risk management standards
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...effort trying to avoid and talked about the technical and organizational challenges to getting it right. But after the talk, the discussion centered on a broader topic: is security more difficult to achieve than reliability? Afterwards, a gaggle of professors from five continents and practitioners from Saab, Ericsson, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM...
 
Tags: folks, reliability folks deal, reliability, reliability folks, security, bugs, reliability bugs, reliability analysis, software reliability
 
 
 
 
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Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots

2008-01-28 07:12:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...effort, will fuel other scientists interest to assist in ensuring that the machines that we as roboticists create fit within international and societal expectations and requirements My personal hope would be that they will never be needed in the present or the future. But mankinds tendency toward war seems overwhelming and inevitable. At the...
 
Tags: ethical, ethical constraint set, ethical robotic warfighter, ethics, ethical boundaries, international protocols, war tradition subscribes, war, international
 
 
 
 
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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...effort by software vendor to make the product secure is worth an effort since it can make a signficant reduction in cost of ownership for the customer Below is a mathematical representation (not the basis!) for the above statement for the curious Price = Initial Purchase Price of the Product Life = Life Cycle Cost of the Product $ = Y*Price...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Digital Responsibility

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2008-01-26 16:22:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...effort to set common rules, spread the risk and shape opinion All this is largely defensive, but companies like to stress that there are also opportunities to be had for those that get ahead of the game. The emphasis on opportunity is the third and trendiest layer of CSR: the idea that it can help to create value That is just the sort of...
 
Tags: companies, prudent companies include, companies csr, industry, csr industry, csr, csr policy, people, csr people
 
 
 
 
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Logs: Parsing, Tokenizing or Extracting?

2008-03-11 01:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...effort needed: just collect the logs and go Easy - no per-log effort on behalf of the log analyst (but some creative code needs to be written Hard - an expensive logging expert must first understand the logs and then write the rules; normalization across devices implies having a uniform data store for logs Cons Output is low quality...
 
Tags: logs, log analyst, log, convert logs, log management, diverse log sources, text logs, log analysis, bad logs
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...efforts said they work by starting with some sort of lead, like a phone number or Internet address. In partnership with the FBI, the systems then can track all domestic and foreign transactions of people associated with that item -- and then the people who associated with them, and so on, casting a gradually wider net. An intelligence...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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Security of "Rogue" or "Shadow" IT?

2008-04-03 12:27:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...effort to create a tool (or set of tools) which could be brought into the business environment by an end-user with as little effort as possible Corporate IT is left fighting the new battle - unknown/untested/unvalidated technologies being marketed at their user base and making its way into the corporate environment. What can IT do? Nothing,...
 
Tags: business environment, environment, enable businesses properly, business, users strangle, users, end-user, harsh guidelines, shadow
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Topless Meetings; Projects-Fi; Boston Launch; Rural-Fi; Chrysler-Fi; Wi-Fi Chip-Fi

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2008-03-31 15:53:51 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...efforts intend to put high-speed service into 2,500 units, mostly by the end of the year. The project ties into city-owned fiber, and is routed through the archive's high-speed NOC. With this project and the Meraki Free the Net mesh effort , San Francisco could move out of the status of a developing nation in terms of widespread broadband...
 
Tags: wi-fi, chrysler, 440m wi-fi chipsets, service, ground service, pilot project, project, term wi-fi, push service