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Measure the effectiveness of awareness efforts

2008-04-27 08:32:03 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...efforts. With 70 percent of all security incidents originating inside company walls, this is a given. What isn't as clear is how to measure the effectiveness of awareness efforts. How does a security manager know, and how can she demonstrate to senior management, that employees actually 'get it
 
Tags: awareness efforts, inside company walls, information protection efforts, security manager, security incidents, effectiveness, employee awareness, senior management, measure
 
 
 
 
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Compliance recycling: Combining compliance efforts to manage PCI DSS

2008-07-16 12:23:20 by Carolyn E. Gibney in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
While the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) looms large over most enterprises' compliance efforts, it doesn't necessarily mean abandoning other compliance efforts. Expert Diana Kelley explains not only how to use existing controls to achieve PCI DSS compliance, but also how other compliance frameworks can ease the PCI DSS...
 
Tags: compliance efforts, pci dss, compliance frameworks, ease, necessarily, looms, controls, enterprises
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...efforts related to online security. Among the issues we'll tackle is malware , which is the subject of our inaugural post Malware -- surreptitious software capable of stealing sensitive information from your computer -- is increasingly spreading over the web. Visiting a compromised web server with a vulnerable browser or plugins can result...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft highlights efforts to police the Net

2008-04-28 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft spends millions of dollars each year developing security products that it gives to law enforcement agencies, knowing that it may not make any money directly in return. The work is part of the company's efforts to be a good corporate citizen, although there are also some business benefits from the work it does
 
Tags: law enforcement agencies, microsoft spends millions, business benefits, money directly, efforts, security products, return, dollars, company
 
 
 
 
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Marketers mucking up data-privacy efforts

2008-06-23 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Corporate data-privacy specialists think theyre influencing their organizations to safeguard customers sensitive personal information but marketers are often undercutting their efforts, according to a new survey
 
Tags: efforts, data-privacy specialists, marketers, survey, organizations
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: Lesson From the DNS Bug: Patching Isn't Enough

2008-07-23 19:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...efforts of the security community, the details of a critical internet vulnerability discovered by Dan Kaminsky about six months ago have leaked. Hackers are racing to produce exploit code, and network operators who haven't already patched the hole are scrambling to catch up. The whole mess is a good illustration of the problems with...
 
Tags: security, security engineer, security engineer brings, security holes, smart design choice, design, security engineers, kaminsky, dan kaminsky
 
 
 
 
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Three computers at the University of Colorado are compromised

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2008-04-30 08:54:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...efforts under way across campus to address computer security," stated Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson We will continue and strengthen our security efforts and hold our departments accountable for their success Evan] Excellent quote, from G.P. "Bud" Peterson. The keywords that I really like are "continue", "strengthen" and "accountable ...
 
Tags: store confidential information, information, store personal information, information security efforts, security efforts, efforts, address computer security, computers, computer security
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...efforts are supported and understood across the organization. Executive management must also dedicate sufficient resources to allow controls to be effective 2) The board of directors must provide oversight at a level above other business managers. The directors role in information security is to ask managers the right questions and encourage...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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Spaf on Academic Security Research (... Silliness)

2007-12-20 13:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...efforts representative of efforts by hundreds of people over decades, and the expenditure of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars is that the vast majority of these efforts have been applied to problems we already know how to solve Hell yeah!!! More people want to invent NIDS, honeypots and secure OS than I care to see. Why? WHY? W-H-Y?...
 
Tags: security, worthwhile security, efforts representative, efforts, security economics, people, rigorous academic approach, academic research, dirt pile