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Management's right to employee communication: There are limits

2008-06-26 08:32:30 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...limits, like restricting data retrieval to items actually related to business transactions or relavant to an ongoing investigation. Now, however, a U.S. Federal court has placed messages sent via contracted services within the scope of employee expectation of privacy
 
Tags: information, information assets, limits, business transactions, employee expectation, federal court, data retrieval, email, media
 
 
 
 
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Management's right to employee communication: There are limits

2008-06-26 08:32:30 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...limits, like restricting data retrieval to items actually related to business transactions or relavant to an ongoing investigation. Now, however, a U.S. Federal court has placed messages sent via contracted services within the scope of employee expectation of privacy
 
Tags: information, information assets, limits, business transactions, employee expectation, federal court, data retrieval, email, media
 
 
 
 
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Limiting Process Privileges Should Be Easier

2007-11-09 10:00:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...limits to 0 Prohibit filesystem access: chdir and chroot to an empty directory Choose a uid dedicated to this process ID. This can be as simple as adding the process ID to a base uid, as long as other system-administration tools stay away from the same uid range Ensure that nothing is running under the uid: fork a child to run...
 
Tags: process, uid, effective process sandbox, kill, prohibit kill, uid range, prohibit, privileges, target uid
 
 
 
 
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2008-08-27 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Limits of Running IT Like a Business If you've tried managing an internal IT department as a bona fide business you already know that you can't take that very far, for the obvious reason that your IT department isn't a business. It is, after all, a part of a business: a significant contributor to a value chain, not a self-contained value...
 
Tags: business, bona fide business, security, anton security tip, limits, security warrior, anton chuvakin blog, picture channel marker, department
 
 
 
 
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New Lithium Battery Rules for U.S. Airplanes

2007-12-28 15:05:28 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Starting in 2008, there are new rules for bringing lithium batteries on airplanes: The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of "equivalent lithium content." 8 grams of equivalent lithium
 
Tags: equivalent lithium content, equivalent lithium, limits, quantity limits apply, lithium batteries, batteries, grams, rules, airplanes
 
 
 
 
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New Lithium Battery Rules for U.S. Airplanes

2007-12-28 15:05:28 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Starting in 2008, there are new rules for bringing lithium batteries on airplanes: The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of "equivalent lithium content." 8 grams of equivalent lithium
 
Tags: equivalent lithium content, equivalent lithium, limits, quantity limits apply, lithium batteries, batteries, grams, rules, airplanes
 
 
 
 
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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...limits the damage that can result from an accident or error. It also reduces the number of potential interactions among privileged programs to the minimum for correct operation, so that unintentional, unwanted, or improper uses of privilege are less likely to occur. Thus, if a question arises related to misuse of a privilege, the number of...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...limits the gains of the position as well. This makes potential earnings predictable and constant. Risk is eliminated since risk is defined as "uncertainty But looking at the hedging instrument individually, it is just as exposed to losses as other instruments. Moreover, derivatives are leveraged and losses are potentially greater than...
 
Tags: hedge, hedge funds, hedge funds act, funds, conventional funds, assets result, assets, risky investments, conventional assets
 
 
 
 
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Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

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2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links
...limits until a security strategy is fully nailed down, smart organizations will develop security and management strategies as they develop deployment plans for virtualization New threats to security come on two fronts. The first and most obvious is the additional software footprint represented by virtualization. On the desktop, virtualization...
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes