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Polyphasic Sleep

2007-03-20 21:04:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...exhibit polyphasic sleeping patterns. Newborns are born polyphasic sleepers and have to be taught not to take naps as they grow up. There are also studies of people who are isolated from an external environment that develop polyphasic behaviors without the sun or a clock to reinforce their traditional sleeping patterns So I am going to try...
 
Tags: polyphasic, develop polyphasic behaviors, naps, polyphasic sleepers, minute naps, nature exhibit polyphasic, monophasic world, monophasic, caffeine
 
 
 
 
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Practical Tips for Avoiding Payment Card Industry Audit Failure

2008-02-29 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: VeriSign) The VeriSign Global Security Consulting team has performed hundreds of PCI assessments, noting that the requirement failures and actual compromises observed during these assessments exhibit common themes. This paper presents proven tactics to help companies achieve and maintain PCI compliance and, more importantly, avoid...
 
Tags: verisign global security, verisign, maintain pci compliance, requirement failures, actual compromises, pci assessments, avoid compromise, companies achieve, source
 
 
 
 
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Report from InfoSec World

The Article has images
2008-03-11 08:23:19 by HASH0x8b066f4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...exhibit hall closed. Shame on you Fortify
 
Tags: security, security world, magazine folks, magazine, folks, security event, conference, infosec world conference, ofir arkin
 
 
 
 
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The Continuing Slide Towards Thoughtcrime

2008-03-18 14:12:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life." Pugh's call for the government to consider options such as placing primary school children who have not been arrested on the database is supported by elements of criminological theory. A well-established pattern of offending involves relatively trivial offences escalating...
 
Tags: database, dna database, risk factor analysis, individual child aged, recent report, public policy research, report, whichever bright spark, cognitive behavioural therapy
 
 
 
 
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Report from InfoSec World

The Article has images
2008-03-11 09:23:03 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...exhibit hall closed. Shame on you Fortify
 
Tags: security, security world, magazine folks, magazine, folks, security event, conference, infosec world conference, ofir arkin
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Plastinated Squid

2008-03-28 16:29:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...exhibit on biodiversity The giant squid, Architeuthis, of which there are three sub-species, is a potent source of maritime tales of tentacled monsters able to grab a ship and pull it down to its doom. The critter memorably featured in Jules Vernes' "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," trying to engulf the submarine Nautilus In real life, though,...
 
Tags: squid, architeuthis sanctipauli lost, architeuthis, giant squid, 25-feet, feet, deep-sea beast, paris museum, metres
 
 
 
 
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Risk Preferences in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

2008-04-17 06:20:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...exhibit greater tolerance for risk in choices about food. Results confirmed this prediction: chimpanzees significantly preferred the risky option, whereas bonobos preferred the fixed option. These results provide a relatively rare example of risk-prone behaviour in the context of gains and show how ecological pressures can sculpt economic...
 
Tags: risk preferences, risk, relative risk preferences, risk-prone behaviour, approach, people approach risk, people, losses, risk larger losses
 
 
 
 
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Security - Passive versus active response

2008-06-03 16:52:01 by HASH0x84718b4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...exhibitors to attendees. Vendors who really want to have a big presence are in for big bucks reaching a relatively small number of customers. It was good to run into a number of StillSecure customers here at the show. Even though we did not exhibit our presence was felt in several of the tracks discussing security solution areas that we offer...
 
Tags: security, security conference, security technology, security solution, time database security, security vendors, database security, data access violations, violations
 
 
 
 
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Security - Passive versus active response

2008-06-03 17:51:52 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...exhibitors to attendees. Vendors who really want to have a big presence are in for big bucks reaching a relatively small number of customers. It was good to run into a number of StillSecure customers here at the show. Even though we did not exhibit our presence was felt in several of the tracks discussing security solution areas that we offer...
 
Tags: security, security conference, security technology, security solution, time database security, security vendors, database security, data access violations, violations
 
 
 
 
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Past, Present and Future Security Initiatives on Exhibit at Microsoft TechEd

2008-06-19 16:58:11 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
Blogger: Dan Blum One of our service directors likes to quote William Gibson: The future is here, its just unevenly distributed At Microsofts Server and Tools Business (STB) Analyst and Tech Ed conferences last week, I saw a vendor and a user community living in the past, present and future with many unevenly distributed capabilities In a...