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Is fear the only think stopping you from telling your security vendor to take a hike?

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2008-06-20 16:40:47 by HASH0x8b72460 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Fear" the author states, "The entire information security industry today is based on fear ." He than goes on to say, "This is what gives security vendors the power to sell you useless products which you dont really need." So of course I don't agree with the later statement, not all of those products are useless, but is it really fear that is...
 
Tags: fear, security, useless products, products, security vendors, useless security products, useless, failure, success
 
 
 
 
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Is fear the only think stopping you from telling your security vendor to take a hike?

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2008-06-20 17:40:47 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Fear" the author states, "The entire information security industry today is based on fear ." He then goes on to say, "This is what gives security vendors the power to sell you useless products which you don???t really need." So of course I don't agree with the later statement, not all of those products are useless, but is it really fear that...
 
Tags: fear, security, useless products, products, security vendors, useless security products, useless, failure, success
 
 
 
 
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Security Perception: Fear vs Anger

2008-03-23 12:42:05 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fearful, you think you're more at risk than if you're angry: In the aftermath of September 11th, we realized that, tragically, we were presented with an opportunity to find out whether our lab research could predict how the country as a whole would react to the attacks and how U.S. citizens would perceive future risks of terrorism. We did a...
 
Tags: potential future attacks, future attacks, future, future terrorist attacks, perceive future risks, attacks, worlds future, clip subsequently, subsequently
 
 
 
 
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Your Brain on Fear

2008-01-09 06:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fear circuitry makes it more powerful than the brain's reasoning faculties. The amygdala sprouts a profusion of connections to higher brain regions -- neurons that carry one-way traffic from amygdala to neocortex. Few connections run from the cortex to the amygdala, however. That allows the amygdala to override the products of the logical,...
 
Tags: fear, brain, amygdala, amygdala hobbles, fear circuitry, amygdala sprouts, brain regions, overrule reason, cortex
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fear and heart disease: Which is more of a threat to your health: Al Qaeda or the Department of Homeland Security An intriguing new study suggests the answer is not so clear-cut. Although its impossible to calculate the pain that terrorist attacks inflict on victims and society, when statisticians look at cold numbers, they have variously...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Remote workers present 'security risk,' IT execs fear

2008-03-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x847361c in Network World on Security
 
IT executives fear there is a growing security risk from remote workers
 
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Anton Security Tip of the Day #15: Fear and Loathing in Event 560 (and 562 and 567)

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2008-05-08 13:37:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...Fear and Loathing in Event 567 This tip digs into a seemingly simple, but really VERY esoteric subject: monitoring file access and modification via a Windows event log. Now, some people - who never studied this subject - tend to have a very simplistic view of this: just enable Object Access auditing, then right-click on a file or directory,...
 
Tags: text file, 0testbedsimple text file, audit file access, file access, simple text file, event, access, file, anton security tip
 
 
 
 
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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fear more what we can't control, but we also fear more what we can imagine or what we experience. This seems to be an evolutionary survival mechanism. In the presence of uncertainty, fear is a valuable defense. Our brains react emotionally, generate anxiety and tell us, "Remember the news report that showed what happened when those other kids...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

2008-04-07 15:50:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made up. And there are lots of products out there that provide security against those risks Your...
 
Tags: movie-plot threat, annual movie-plot threat, criminal risk, risk, common household risk, product idea, product, terrorism risk, entries