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Fun Read: "Busting the 10 Myths About Data Protection"

2008-01-15 22:49:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Myths About Data Protection For example: " Myth No. 4 I should be most concerned about protecting my data from data theft and malicious internal leaks." or About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: data, data protection, data theft, fun, malicious internal leaks, sans lunch, myths, worst practices, orleans
 
 
 
 
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10 Myths About Life As An IT Security Professional

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2008-04-25 23:08:41 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
...myths about life as an IT Security Professional IT Security is basically about Passwords and Anti-virus . This is completely untrue. You may hear this from people that dont get paid to do security, but think they know all about it. Security is a very diverse field covering a wide range of skills including; threat modeling, risk analysis,...
 
Tags: security, company security policy, security policy, technical security skills, technical security, policy, security professional, platform specific security, cool
 
 
 
 
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30 tech myths debunked

2008-04-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b57b4c in Network World on Security
 
...myths floating around about PCs and gadgets that actually seem plausible. Some are just bad practical jokes (like e-mails saying Microsoft or AOL would donate money for every forward sent) while some are distorted facts. Even for a techie, it sometimes becomes difficult to tell fact from fiction -- so here is a collection of some popular...
 
Tags: bad practical jokes, popular misconceptions, plain impossible, windows mac, myths, start menu, convert, regular windows, e-mails
 
 
 
 
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FISMA Report Card News, Formulas, and 3 Myths

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2008-05-27 16:36:28 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...myths about FISMA in particular that I need to dispell right now FISMA is a report card: Its a law, the grades are just an awareness campaign. In fact, the whole series of NIST Special Publications are just implementation techniquesthey are guidance after all. Usually the media and bloggers talk about what FISMA measures and um, well, it...
 
Tags: report card, fisma report card, fisma, fisma measures, fisma compliance title, fisma report cards, security, security programs based, framework
 
 
 
 
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On the Maturity of CEP

2008-06-01 04:39:37 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Myths Around Complex Event Processing by Ivy Schmerken stimulated arecent flurry of blog posts about the maturity of CEP, including; Mark Palmers CEP Myths: Mature or Not? and Opher Etzions On Maturity I agree with Ivy. CEP is not yet a mature technology by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I agree with all three of Ivys main points...
 
Tags: cep, cots software, software, cep capabilties, cep vendors, cots cep software, term cep, complex event, complex
 
 
 
 
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Nuclear War Survival Myths

2008-01-12 18:46:58 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
I did not write this article, and while it's not about computer security it is about security. My interest in this subject was renewed after watching the TV series Jericho (watch it so it stays on the air). I thought this article was interesting enough to warrant mirroring, and it seems to jive pretty well with what I have read from other...
 
Tags: tv series jericho, computer security, security, jive pretty, article, subject, fan, pgpgpg, paranoid
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-01-22 [del.icio.us]

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...myths about security metrics CMS to check hospitals for HIPAA security compliance One year later: Five takeaways from the TJX breach Riskbloggers - Security Wisdom ahead of the curve Q1 Labs Signs OEM Agreement with Juniper Networks ArcSight plans to raise about $52M in IPO - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: In an amended filing...
 
Tags: arcsight plans, arcsight, shares, hipaa security compliance, plans, million shares, security wisdom ahead, juniper networks, security metrics
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...myths about "given enough eyeballs.... blah blah." If the "eyeballs" mantra were true, we'd have very few open source security bugs. But there are plenty of open source security bugs found after products ship. Hmmm, this would seem to raise some interesting question on the validity of the "enough eyeballs" belief given these hard facts Now...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, fewer security vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, source security bugs, bugs, major microsoft products, microsoft products, security
 
 
 
 
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Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded

2008-02-26 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...myths Internet predators are driving up child sex crime rates Finding: Sex assaults on teens fell 52 percent from 1993 to 2005, according to the Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey, the best measure of U.S. crime trends. "The Internet may not be as risky as a lot of other things that parents do without concern, such as...
 
Tags: internet, internet predators, internet predators represent, predators, sex crimes, sex, child, child predators, internet predators trick
 
 
 
 
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Avoiding common misconceptions about video analytics