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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...Equation 1 Assume if the vendor develops secure product, if the vendor has to spend twice as much to develop the secure product (that's probably the worst case impact on the cost structure and let's assume that the vendor passes all the cost to the customers by doubling the price TCO (secure)= 2*Price + x * (Y*Price) ---> Equation 2 Where is...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
 
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3Com, Bain, Huawei rises from the dead - Where there is a will, there is a way

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2008-02-29 19:53:35 by HASH0x8ae8b00 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...equation, I think a healthy 3Com that can compete with Cisco is important. Taking Tipping Point out of the equation, I don't see what should hold this deal up. I think it will be best for a healthy competitive networking gear marketplace. The current near monopoly situation in this market is not healthy. Some of the weak sisters have to be...
 
Tags: 3com, healthy competitive, healthy, healthy 3com, plan, parties time, parties, acceptable plan, current stock price
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Sodexo employee's car

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2008-05-22 12:39:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...equation for you math types. Laptop + confidential information + automobile - encryption - employee presence = unacceptable risk of breach. It seems to be an equation that holds true more often than not This laptop may have contained an electronic file with the names and Social Security numbers of these employees Evan] May have or may not...
 
Tags: information, personal employee information, breach description, breach, security breach, personal information, personal financial information, sodexo, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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If NAC is an Easter egg hunt, is Cisco the bunny?

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2008-02-21 21:34:17 by HASH0x8bb63c0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...equation. Anyone who has used Symantecs new Endpoint Security with all of the mods turned on can talk to you about overhead and resource use. Whether the agent is separate or not, it is what the overhead is that counts In any event, though Neil did not mention StillSecure (tsk, tsk) I thought this article was right on, that despite the...
 
Tags: nac, cisco, nac solution, cisco-microsoft nac partnership, nac easter bunny, easter egg hunt, neil, neil roiter, policy lives
 
 
 
 
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Data-centric security: How far do you de-perimeter your perimeter?

2007-12-18 14:30:00 by Michael Concordia in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...equation as well, allowing people to collaborate, share documentsin short, to do business. And this is where data-centric security has already begun playing a more important role Therefore, while I think that security investments will migrate from hard perimeter defenses to more data-centric models of protection, it will not be immediate...
 
Tags: data, data-centric security, data-centric models, business, business rules, defenses, hard perimeter defenses, opteron battle, people
 
 
 
 
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Britain mulling "random" audits to enhance data protection..

2007-11-07 17:41:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...equation, of course, but only part If we dont, we run the risk of falling prey to those who would take advantage of us. And we run the risk of having irate lawmakers, driven by irate constituents, implement new (and onerous) rules that make it far more difficult for us to conduct business. We fail to control the data entrusted to us at our...
 
Tags: data, data protection, apparently treat data, personal data, secure data, businesses responsible, current laws, data safe, businesses
 
 
 
 
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If NAC is an Easter egg hunt, is Cisco the bunny?

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2008-02-21 22:10:54 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...equation. Anyone who has used Symantecs new Endpoint Security with all of the mods turned on can talk to you about overhead and resource use. Whether the agent is separate or not, it is what the overhead is that counts In any event, though Neil did not mention StillSecure (tsk, tsk) I thought this article was right on, that despite the...
 
Tags: nac, cisco, nac solution, cisco-microsoft nac partnership, nac easter bunny, easter egg hunt, neil, neil roiter, policy lives
 
 
 
 
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Help me with my UTM+ research

2008-03-05 07:42:04 by HASH0x8b60558 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...equation. Of course, the question is how do you make this integration work? What will people see value in? Good questions for sure In order to answer this I think you have to move beyond the analyst papers and the marketing spin of the venders. I need to know what users really use in their UTMs. What applications do you actually use? Which...
 
Tags: utm, solutions, source security solutions, utm market, market, people, integration, true integration, waste time
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...equation that determines the value, to you, of more information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data Another example: When your doctor says "take off your clothes," it makes no sense for you to say, "You first, doc." The two of you are not engaging in an interaction of equals This is the principle...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer