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How carriers batten down the hatches for hurricanes

2008-09-04 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Picture what would happen if the multitude of hardhat-wearing network technicians you see in a typical Verizon commercial got swept up in a "Wizard of Oz"-style twister. In other words, think about how spread out telecom carrier infrastructure is and about how many different bases telcos have to cover to protect it all during natural disasters
 
Tags: typical verizon commercial, telecom carrier infrastructure, natural disasters, -style twister, bases telcos, network technicians, wizard, swept, protect
 
 
 
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Natural Resources (DNR Salem Associates Victims Waste water and drinking water worker permit applicants Number Affected 7,000 Types of Data Applicant data including names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers Breach Description An employee of Salem Associates, a contractor working for the Iowa DNR lost a thumb (flash)...
 
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Are Microsoft's obits premature?

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2008-02-14 13:26:10 by HASH0x8b3bd70 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...natural to root for the underdog and we have been so used Microsoft being unbeatable, that Google appearing as the "great white hope is also natural. But are we know going to cast Microsoft as the underdog here? Have their fortunes sunk so low that we think they are lost? I think not. A company with the assets of Microsoft will continue to...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft live, cast microsoft, global community, increasingly global community, evil empires, child, saas, pure saas
 
 
 
 
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Are Microsoft's obits premature?

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2008-02-14 14:25:59 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...natural to root for the underdog and we have been so used Microsoft being unbeatable, that Google appearing as the "great white hope is also natural. But are we know going to cast Microsoft as the underdog here? Have their fortunes sunk so low that we think they are lost? I think not. A company with the assets of Microsoft will continue to...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft live, cast microsoft, global community, increasingly global community, evil empires, child, saas, pure saas
 
 
 
 
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Audit/Monitor Controls or Audit/Monitor BEFORE Control?

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2008-02-28 11:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...Natural Order Of Security Yields The Greatest Benefits " proclaimed that "the adoption of security has a natural order: 1) authentication; 2) authorization; 3) administration and 4) audit ." Note that audit which, in this case, broadly includes audit, monitoring and detection, comes last. It seems to be fairly in line with common sense: you...
 
Tags: audit, broadly includes audit, broadly, includes, audit whatsoever, full-blown audit capability, paper, paper clarifies, controls
 
 
 
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...natural for most people. It's not natural for engineers. Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail. It involves thinking like an attacker, an adversary or a criminal. You don't have to exploit the vulnerabilities you find, but if you...
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...natural for most people. It's not natural for engineers. Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail. It involves thinking like an attacker, an adversary or a criminal. You don't have to exploit the vulnerabilities you find, but if you...
 
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MSSP and NAC - true love or lust?

2008-05-22 10:51:56 by HASH0x8b2d488 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...natural for the managed services space. However, I think for the MSSP (managed security services provider) market specifically it may be beyond their current offering levels. Most MSSP offerings today are focused at the perimeter. They have grown from managed firewall to managed IDS/IPS, managed anti-spam and managed content filtering. Now...
 
Tags: nac, nac service, traditional nac, mssp, nac marketplace, mirage, service, mirage blog, mirage networks
 
 
 
 
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Real Artists Ship

2008-09-03 11:23:08 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...natural hustling instinct to take over. In other words, hustling is the natural state. Building state capacity, on the other hand, is quite different. It involves overcoming collective action problems, mediating conflict, creating accountability mechanisms where outputs are multiple and fuzzy and links between inputs and outputs murky, and...
 
Tags: tata, tata workers, tata motors, security, india, india mulls, information security, functional development, software security
 
 
 
 
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The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008

2008-01-05 17:22:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Natural disasters, accidents or errors without malicious intent Acknowledgements and References A special word of appreciation for the reviews, comments and suggestions from