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HP buying EDS- Offensive to IBM or defensive to Indian firms?

2008-05-12 20:40:45 by HASH0x8b19e28 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...firms that have been expanding world-wide over the last few years. In the global marketplace for IT services and consulting, HP and IBM may be the American based entries in a world-wide competition with Infosys, Tata, and other firms from India, China and the rest of the world.. For this reason I think it is a good move by HP to shore up a...
 
Tags: firms, eds, world-wide, world, ibm, deal, indian services firms, services, world-wide competition
 
 
 
 
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Loving customers frustrate security firms too

2008-06-13 19:45:37 by HASH0x8bfd9e8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...firms frustrate loving customers ". Roger details some specific examples of how security vendors just don't "show the love" to customers and prospective customers, with the result being lost business. Roger highlights three examples 1. Making renewals a manual process with those annoying phone trees . I agree, when I hear the press 1 for...
 
Tags: security, security firms, customers, product, product sits, favorite product, prospective customers, software vendor, vendor
 
 
 
 
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Over half of U.K. firms have lost data

2008-10-10 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Fifty-five percent of British companies have lost data and 49% of them have had over two breaches in the last two years, according to a new survey of 785 IT professionals
 
Tags: lost data, fifty-five percent, british companies, professionals, survey, breaches
 
 
 
 
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Tax information exposed in trash

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2008-04-07 13:20:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...firms in a Howe Street office building were visible by someone having a cigarette in the alley Evan] Not just one firm, but "several firms Many of the documents -- marked with phrases such as "personal and confidential" -- come from the office of Peter Roberts, a well-known accountant Evan] Mr. Roberts is a director of the Canadian Institute...
 
Tags: information, tax information, employees information, information security, information security guidance, guidance, information security professional, security, include names
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...firms whose U.S. corporate clients were planning to expand into Russia, China, and other countries with opaque business practices and few public records, and who needed the skinny on international partners or rivals These ex-spies apply a higher level of expertise, honed by government service, to the cruder tactics already practiced by...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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What to watch for - the Rest of the Fortune 500 Gets Their Software Security

2008-09-18 15:06:51 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...firms vanish before our eyes, we will see the needs of insurance, manufacturing, healthcare and other verticals take on more precedence. If you want some ideas on what is important, start here . FWIW, here are some key themes that i think will emerge Standard Support Mark O'Neill posted this comment to an earlier blog and it bears repeating...
 
Tags: software security, security, government customer, government, government people, people, financial people, software security vendors, financial services people
 
 
 
 
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Be careful what you ask for.

2007-12-08 21:43:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...firms. Under no circumstances would we do anything that involved breaking the law or conducting our business in an unethical manner. Unfortunately, there are those who are more intersted in making money than being ethical and law abiding Mr. Bill Lowrance, President of the Professional Investigators Association of Virginia, has recently...
 
Tags: professional investigators association, investigators, professional investigators, law, law firms alike, person, ethical, ethical companies, illegal
 
 
 
 
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Security Consultant Hacks: Size Matters

2007-12-20 05:16:07 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...firms or lifestyle firms (since the people that run them take jobs when they want and only when they want) can be excellent resources within their specialities. Typically these are 1-5 person shops that are fairly niche focused, maybe they specialize in Web Application Security , secure development, or PCI audits Advantages : If you are using...
 
Tags: security consultant, security consultant hacks, security, web application security, security consultants, consultants, grumpy security guy, medium shops, employ
 
 
 
 
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How America may be funding the Mafia in Japan.

2008-05-12 01:15:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...firms, construction companies and pastry shops. Disturbingly, it is reported that the mobsters have even opened their own bank in California In more recent times, the yakuza have moved into finance. Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission know of more than 50 listed companies with ties to the underworld. U.S. investors have...
 
Tags: japan, child porn peddlers, companies, yakuza, child porn, front companies, adelstein, investigation, investigation firms
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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