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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 B.C. than to those endemic to living in 2008 New York If we make security trade-offs based on the feeling of security rather than the reality, we choose security that makes us feel more secure over security that actually makes us more secure. And that's what...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 B.C. than to those endemic to living in 2008 New York If we make security trade-offs based on the feeling of security rather than the reality, we choose security that makes us feel more secure over security that actually makes us more secure. And that's what...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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Surveillance is endemic in many democracies, complains privacy group

2008-01-04 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Terrorism concerns have led to reduced privacy in many but not all democracies
 
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Privacy International's 2007 Report

2008-01-10 06:01:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
The 2007 International Privacy Ranking Canada comes in first . Individual privacy is best protected in Canada but under threat in the United States and the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an international rights group said in a report...
 
Tags: surveillance, endemic surveillance societies, canada, watchdog privacy international, international rights, privacy records, international privacy, european union, governments introduce
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Identity Theft

2008-08-16 09:58:30 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...endemic in Russia that President Medvedev speaks about it as one of the biggest problems faced by Russian businesses. In this case, raiders have taken this problem to a new and absurd extreme by raiding the Russian state itself and so far getting away with it. Together with HSBC, we will shortly be filing new criminal complaints with the...
 
Tags: russian police, police, russian, russian government, government, identity theft, russian-style, hermitage, fund
 
 
 
 
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One Mans Frustrations With Risk Management

2008-09-23 18:05:20 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...endemic. Now Chris is very smart here. He correctly identifies that the value is tied to the business process the systems support, and not to a specific box. Oh, we scan at the specific box level - but because of the nature of systemic failures - all the boxes in the process are inexorably interrelated One of the reasons I really like FAIR is...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management methodologies, risk management approaches, risk, risk management methodology, risk management models, risk professionals focus, risk analysis, specific
 
 
 
 
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Does Risk Management Make Sense?

2008-10-14 13:25:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 BC, and not to living in the New York City of 2008. We make systematic risk management mistakes -- miscalculating the probability of rare events, reacting more to stories than data, responding to the feeling of security rather than reality, and making decisions...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management decisions, risk, avoid risk management, natural risk management, risk management consciously, security, security world, information security magazine
 
 
 
 
 
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