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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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Investment firm security breach: Ignorance or negligence

2008-07-09 11:40:17 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
I often wonder when security incidents like this occur whether anyone is actually listening to the security community. If this investment company was aware of how to prevent employee-caused breaches, then maybe this breach should be attributed to simple negligence
 
Tags: security incidents, investment company, security community, breach, simple negligence, prevent, aware, occur, breaches
 
 
 
 
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File-sharing breach at investment firm highlights dangers of P2P networks -- again

2008-07-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An investment firm in Virginia, with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer among its clients, is the latest company to suffer a data breach because of an employee's use of a file-sharing network
 
Tags: investment firm, supreme court justice, data breach, suffer, virginia, network, breyer, employee, clients
 
 
 
 
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Investment Firm Clients Personal Data Exposed Over P2P Networks

2008-07-10 09:50:56 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
The Alexandria, Va.-based investment firm last week had to notify about 2,000 of its clients that their names, Social Security numbers and birthdates had potentially been exposed on the LimeWire P2P network, according to a story published Wednesday by The Washington Post. Among the individuals whose personal data was exposed in the Wagner...
 
Tags: personal data, investment firm, limewire p2p network, social security, wagner compromise, washington post, clients, story, names
 
 
 
 
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Investment firm security breach: Ignorance or negligence

2008-07-09 11:40:17 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
I often wonder when security incidents like this occur whether anyone is actually listening to the security community. If this investment company was aware of how to prevent employee-caused breaches, then maybe this breach should be attributed to simple negligence
 
Tags: security incidents, investment company, security community, breach, simple negligence, prevent, aware, occur, breaches
 
 
 
 
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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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Security ROI

2008-09-02 06:05:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...investment, or ROI, is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive return on investment, and a good one at that, in order to be viable It's become a big deal in IT security, too. Many corporate customers are demanding ROI models to demonstrate that a particular security investment pays off. And in response,...
 
Tags: security, security countermeasures, countermeasures, incident, security incident, individual security countermeasures, security measure cuts, security measure reduces, security vendors
 
 
 
 
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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