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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

2008-04-19 18:50:47 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality
 
Tags: anti-good ideas, firewall transparent, ignore reality, attempts, turbo-stateful, braindamage, impossible, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Art and science: Bruce Schneier shares security ideas at museum

2008-03-28 00:00:00 by Ann Bednarz in Network World on Security
 
Bruce Schneier shared his ideas about the psychology of security, and the need for thinking sensibly about security, in his hometown Wednesday night when he gave a lecture at the Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota
 
Tags: bruce schneier, security, hometown wednesday night, weisman art museum, ideas, university, minnesota, lecture, sensibly
 
 
 
 
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Presenting Security Ideas or Driving Agendas?

2008-05-24 11:39:04 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
I opened the OWASP Europe Conference this week with a slide (below) about vendor neutrality. In essence I urged attendees to consider the motivations of those presenting various ideas at the conference; including myself of course. During the conference it was pointed out that the moderator of a panel The PCI 6.6 Dogfight
 
Tags: owasp europe conference, conference, urged attendees, vendor neutrality, ideas, dogfight, pci, week, panel
 
 
 
 
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Are you attending RSA Europe 2007 ?

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2007-10-13 17:36:56 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
...ideas to (or for) them. It is truly my hope that there is something for everyone in this presentation Here are more details from the conference site Session Abstract This session will focus on creating and presenting Quick Business Cases: brief, six-part presentations documenting particular opportunity for innovation and seeking...
 
Tags: business, quick business, six-part presentation, presentation, rsa europe, information security, information security initiative, business plan, innovation
 
 
 
 
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Why Is ISO2700x Hot in UK, but Not in US?

2008-05-16 11:36:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...ideas and material in his own policies, procedures, etc. On the other hand, he sees no motivation whatsoever to invest in certification - since nobody is making him do it (no equivalent of a PCI auditor is standing nearby with a big axe Another explanation that due to longer history of security management in the US (compared to other...
 
Tags: iso17799 documents, security, security management, iso17799, security manager worth, set national standards, ideas, opposite true, countries
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Digital Responsibility

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2008-01-26 16:22:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...ideas. In the survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit for this report, only 4% of respondents thought that CSR was a waste of time and money. Clearly CSR has arrived In one sense], the best form of corporate responsibility boils down to enlightened self-interest. And the more that firms embracing it are seen to be successful through...
 
Tags: companies, prudent companies include, companies csr, industry, csr industry, csr, csr policy, people, csr people
 
 
 
 
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Starbucks Leadership Shake Up Signals In-Store Direction

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2008-04-24 15:01:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...ideas. He's behind My Starbucks Idea , the site the company is using to let its customers give it free, valuable advice. One of the fascinating, Cluetrained elements of that site is the transparency: ideas that are submitted can be viewed by other visitors to the site, and voted upon. Suggestion boxes are usually locked tight, whether in the...
 
Tags: starbucks, entertainment, starbucks entertainment senior, att, att deal, tie, starbucks att markets, starbucks tie-in, starbucks idea
 
 
 
 
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Whats Up With the Washington Posts Biz Section Coverage of Local Business?

2008-05-23 21:26:02 by David Link in ScienceLogic
 
...ideas and the new entrepreneurs in the region that are succeeding Is this sour grapes? In the interest of full disclosure, we have had several good discussions with Post journalists, but the stories died after the individual was moved to another beat and the response was, yes that has become quite common. But beyond the reorganizations ( just...
 
Tags: business, post business section, business section, post, post daily delivery, business leaders, post journalist, local business community, blog post
 
 
 
 
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Information Security Reading List

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2008-05-16 17:12:39 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...ideas. Here is a brief reading list to explore some concepts that are useful, but relatively unexplored in information security 1. Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai. I posted on how much I enjoyed this book in the past, and James McGovern did as well. Key thing here for us infosec types is to decouple risk and uncertainty and focus more on...
 
Tags: information security, security, information security books, books, web app security, information security literature, 21st century security, cyber security czar, software security
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)