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Let's Not Let the Security Staff Become the SocGen Scapegoat

2008-02-25 17:47:53 by Posted By: Jay Heiser, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
A growing number of commentators are pointing the finger at the Societe Generale security function as being at fault in allowing "rogue" trader Jerome Kerviel to eventually bring the bank to its knees. Security product vendors are taking the opportunity to position their technology as being solutions that could have prevented this failure It is...
 
Tags: failure, governance failure, management, risk management, technology failure, bank management, staff, security staff, technology
 
 
 
 
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To collaborate or not - this is NOT the question.

2008-01-11 15:24:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Just came across this interesting article in Network World by Kurt Johnson - Control Collaboration, don't inhibit it . No doubt concerns from Web2.0 and social media security risks also weighed in The article argues about best practices and has some good suggestions - however, I feel that the core challenge was not fully addressed. How do we...
 
Tags: control collaboration, control, access control, data, data-centric perspective, challenge, data level, core challenge, compliance
 
 
 
 
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If your computer is not secure, Bank may not pay

2008-04-10 16:17:52 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Great article that will make users think more about how secure their computer is. If the bank requires you to be secure, and you are not, they may not pay if your account is stolen clipped from www.canada.com Bank online security misleading, study finds Paul Van Oorschot, Canada Research Chair in Network and Software Security at Carleton...
 
Tags: secure, canada, canada research chair, paul van oorschot, bank online security, student mohammad mannan, fine print, security requirements, internet security
 
 
 
 
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To believe or not - new research from Ponemon

2008-05-07 17:52:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
New research from Ponemon on consumer behavious post breach breach - apparently over 31% of those surveyed terminated ties with an organization that had a breach Not sure to fully believe it when consumers say such stuff (I did not mean the Ponemon research itself:)) - I think consumers say what they think is the right thing to say. I think...
 
Tags: ponemon, research, ponemon research, breach information, breach, pain directly, consumers, ties, time
 
 
 
 
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Compliance costs not slowing down - technology automation to the rescue

2008-01-28 13:34:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
Deloitte - Navigating the Compliance Labyrinth offers some great tidbits from recent surveying of financial executives Compliance continues to increase - from 2.83% of net income in 2002 to 3.69% of net income in 2006 Primary costs continue to be driven through applying people, not technology to the problem and the kicker from our perspective,...
 
Tags: technology, leverage technology automation, net income, compliance costs, primary costs continue, compliance labyrinth offers, people, process management tools, reduce people
 
 
 
 
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WireShark...Adware? (...Not!)

2007-02-16 13:53:21 by Editor in Endpoint Security: Translating Policy Into Reality
 
After verifying WinPcap & dependent .dll's in question the first time I ran across the error (and subsequently verifying that they were good-to-go), I just told them not to worry about it...just another False Positive from McAfee
 
Tags: false positive, dependent, time, question, subsequently, winpcap, dll, error, mcafee
 
 
 
 
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How Not to Be Seen II: The Defenders Fight Back

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
In a previous column ("How Not to Be Seen," vol. 5, no. 1, 2007, pp. 6769), the authors introduced readers to the varied technologies that stealthy software uses. At the end of the column, they promised to take a whirlwind look at stealth detection; this installment fulfills that obligation
 
Tags: previous column, column, stealth detection, stealthy software, installment fulfills, authors, vol, technologies, whirlwind
 
 
 
 
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Facebook 'Secret Crush' not our fault, Zango CEO says

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
The Facebook 'Secret Crush' widget which has tricked millions of Facebook users into downloading spyware was not our idea, Zango CEO Keith Smith says
 
Tags: facebook, secret crush, facebook users, millions, spyware, idea, widget
 
 
 
 
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I Should Really Not Touch This ....

2008-01-15 23:50:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
I really should not. But - darn it! - how can I miss a potential blog fight related to log management So, it seems like Raffy baited some poor folks from Prism with his post on "IT search " (what an abomination of a term!). But, seriously, "IT search" is a marketing term (nothing wrong with that, BTW!), so it will mean whatever the folks who...
 
Tags: poor folks, folks, logs, typical siem approach, potential blog fight, log management, term, collect, argue objectively