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The Return on Investment for Securing Information

2007-08-13 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Investment (ROI) of security. Amrit Williams has several links in his recent discussion of the topic. This reminds me of some work that I did with BearingPoint on the ROI of a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a similarly challenging area in which to quantify value. The framework we used for justification involved underlying business...
 
Tags: traditional roi metrics, roi, strategic drivers, distribution channels, difficulty, investment, risk reduction, return, business initiative
 
 
 
 
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Mike Rothman - The 419

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2008-02-08 06:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...Investment Trust for so many as one of their fund manager. I am an international staff, presently in Scotland office Scottish Investment Company is registered in Scotland number 1651. I started work with SIT 2004 and I am responsible for the European Jurisdiction Equity. I was with Abbey National Asset mangers before I moved to SIT, and a...
 
Tags: capital investment funds, capital investment, funds, capital, magellan capital funds, direct capital funds, investment, stockmarket investment, scottish investment staff
 
 
 
 
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Skipton Financial Services personal customer data on stolen laptop

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2008-01-04 22:21:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...investment details including how much was invested equivalent to Social Security numbers in US Breach Description A laptop computer was stolen from a locker being used by a Moore Stevens Consulting employee that contained sensitive personal information belonging to as many as 14,000 Skipton Financial Services (SFS) clients who had invested...
 
Tags: skipton, information includes names, information, information security practices, skipton financial services, financial giant skipton, store confidential information, skipton spokesman, security
 
 
 
 
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Davidson Companies illegal network intrusion exposes clients

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2008-02-01 14:51:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...investment firm; Davidson Investment Advisors, a money management firm; Davidson Trust Co., a wealth management and trust company; Davidson Fixed Income Management, an investment and money management services firm; and Davidson Travel, a travel agency." - Source InformationWeek story Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Clients and...
 
Tags: davidson, clients, davidson companies president, davidson companies clients, sensitive personal information, davidson login page, personal information, davidson companies, davidson trust
 
 
 
 
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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...investment in the form of complete input format specifications or the selection of a large corpus of initial input samples At WOOT'07 ,I presented a paper on Flayer , a tool we developed internally to augment our security testing efforts. In particular, it allows for a fuzz testing technique that compromises between the original idea and the...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks
 
 
 
 
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35,000 T. Rowe price plan participants alerted

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2008-01-29 12:51:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Investment News online story Report Credit Investment News Response From the online source cited above T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services alerted 35,000 current and former participants in several hundred plans that their names and Social Security numbers were contained in files on computers that were stolen, said Brian Lewbart,...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, rowe price, insurance, identity theft insurance, cbiz benefits, cbiz
 
 
 
 
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NetFlow and Visibility in the Virtual Environment

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2008-03-31 23:21:54 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...Investment in tools that use Netflow enabled switches now starts to become obsolete for parts of the network that is now virtual We've heard vendors to date talk about Virtual Patch Management, Virtual Firewall, Virtual IPS but these talks leave customers confused on what they really need and doesn't necessarily solve all of the security and...
 
Tags: virtual, virtual environment, environment, virtual infrastructure, virtual switch, virtual firewall, virtual security product, physical world, world
 
 
 
 
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Romanian Script Kiddies and the Screensavers Botnet

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2008-04-08 03:48:40 by HASH0x8ae5de0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...investment there cannot be a return on investment on their efforts at the first place. Take a peek at the efficiency level of remote file inclusion achieved by another botnet, and at alternative botnet C&C channels courtesy of botnet masters realizing that diversity is vital
 
Tags: botnet, botnet masters, script kiddies, romanian script kiddies, botnet courtesy, ny2fw15, alternative botnet, irc, irc bot
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...investment account information While there are civil laws against dumping such documentation, Chambers said it is not against the law Evan] It's too bad that we have to write and enforce laws to protect us from idiots I think it is a matter of legislation not catching up with the realities of identity theft," said Chambers. "And absolutely,...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek