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BPM tools: Benefits and opportunities

2008-07-23 13:52:23 by Martha Young in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
BPM tools and services can help both you and your customers gain a competitive advantage, by cutting out customers' process inefficiencies and setting you apart from the rest of the pack
 
Tags: bpm tools, customers gain, customers, process inefficiencies, competitive advantage, rest, services, pack
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...gain of $500 and 50 percent chance of gaining $1,000. Ask the other group to choose between these two alternatives: a sure loss of $500 and a 50 percent chance of losing $1,000 These two trade-offs are very similar, and traditional economics predicts that the whether you're contemplating a gain or a loss doesn't make a difference: People make...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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An old/new kind of cybercrime/cybercriminal

2008-04-23 10:13:09 by HASH0x8b4a8bc in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...gain type of deal. For a long time now we have been hearing from people like Bruce Schneier in this article talk about the front in security moving from dealing with script kiddies working for kicks to organized cybercriminal gangs that are in it for financial gain. Mostly the gain is about identity theft and gaining access to funds...
 
Tags: financial gain type, financial gain, gain, information breach, information, gain access, access, competitors information, cybercrime
 
 
 
 
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An old/new kind of cybercrime/cybercriminal

2008-04-23 11:13:09 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...gain type of deal. For a long time now we have been hearing from people like Bruce Schneier in this article talk about the front in security moving from dealing with script kiddies working for kicks to organized cybercriminal gangs that are in it for financial gain. Mostly the gain is about identity theft and gaining access to funds...
 
Tags: financial gain type, financial gain, gain, information breach, information, gain access, access, competitors information, cybercrime
 
 
 
 
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The Arizona Office of the Auditor General finds plenty of holes

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2008-06-23 12:28:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...gain unauthorized access to sensitive information, such as social security numbers, and could have modified or deleted important university information Reference URL Arizona Office of the Auditor General's report titled " Arizonas UniversitiesInformation Technology Security The Arizona Daily Star Report Credit Arizona Office of the Auditor...
 
Tags: information, information security officer, personal information, information security staffs, confidential information, information security, university information, sensitive information, sensitive
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...gain, but also political or competitive gain Some other interesting news items have appeared in the recent past 1. Germanys respected weekly, Der Spiegel , reported that China was thought to have hacked into the computer systems of Germanys chancellery, as well as systems at three ministries, infecting the networks with spy programs. The...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
...gain access to the operating system for a touch-screen display available in the back seat of many Manhattan taxicabs and also used it to connect to the Internet. But no sensitive information or critical systems were compromised, according to the display systems vendor. The display is used to present short videos and ads to taxi riders, and...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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What can CISOs learn from the Societe Generale debacle

2008-02-19 09:17:17 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...gain access to not one but multiple passwords? Having a policy creates a liability for the organization to ensure that it is implemented and gives the organization a false sense of security Everyone is not after the money. One perpetuating myth about hackers is that they are all after financial gain. This may or may not be true. In Societe...
 
Tags: security, formal security strategy, societe generale, security technology, external security challenges, implement security, access, security products, access users
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...gainst short-term deperimeterization for most organizations. Consider the Itanium vs. Opteron battle as a prime example. While the purist might say the battle is not over yet, the initial rounds by far were won by the hybrid 62/32 bit Opteron chip. The futuristic Itanium would have required significant changes in software to take advantage of...
 
Tags: data, data-centric security, data-centric models, business, business rules, defenses, hard perimeter defenses, opteron battle, people
 
 
 
 
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Netflow visibility inside Virtual Environments

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2008-04-22 18:07:24 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World