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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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Why making health records public is not a great idea

2008-05-20 07:21:10 by HASH0x8911db8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Fred Wilson has an interesting blog up regarding the new Google Health service. Fred filled out his personal medical information and was disappointed that he was not able to publish this data and make it public. Fred would like to have a sidebar widget for his blog with his health profile. Many people wrote to Fred telling him why Google does...
 
Tags: health, health records public, public, fred, fred wilson, records, health profile, fred feels, google health service
 
 
 
 
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More CEP Misinformation: Overhyped is not Mere Hype

2008-07-16 07:47:35 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Paul Vincents blog post CEP: hype, or the next best thing since sliced bread? mispresents the dialog going on the the CEP community First of all, we have notread anyone saying that CEP is mere hype as Paul Vincent has distorted the discussion. What people have have said is that CEP is overhyped. There is a huge difference in Mere Hype (Paul...
 
Tags: mere hype, cep, cep mere hype, hype, pauls post cep, cep community, cep announcement, paul vincent, entire discussion
 
 
 
 
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DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government

2008-08-08 11:32:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
According to a recent court ruling , we are all subject to the provisions of the DMCA, but the government is not: he Court of Federal Claims that first heard the case threw it out, and the new Appellate ruling upholds that decision. The reasoning behind the decisions focuses on the US government's sovereign immunity, which the court describes...
 
Tags: government, dmca, government retains, court, court define, government employee, sovereign, sovereign immunity, immunity
 
 
 
 
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Sitting on your hands is not an option - FUD, Compliance, what will it take to sell security?

2008-03-13 00:17:43 by HASH0x84729f8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Michael Farnum has a good post up today about a customer of his over at Accuvant. In a real life reenactment of every security vendors dream (come on, admit it), while the customer was procrastinating about whether to spend the money on security or not they were pwned. Michael says this is the second time this has happened since he has been at...
 
Tags: security breach, security breach scare, security, security breach cost, security purchase, security industry, provide security, industry, real live security
 
 
 
 
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This is not a bodyguard - this is a walking lawsuit.

2008-03-18 02:52:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
If you are like me and you view the latest " bodyguard gone wild " video, you can't help but wonder, how many millions of dollars will this uncontrollable violent outburst cost Nicole Kidman As someone who not only hires personal protection agents, but who also trains them, I can tell you that Ms. Kidman would be far better off looking after...
 
Tags: hire, celebrities hire amateurs, security, security person, vehicle, company vehicle, people hire, professional security firms, night club bouncer
 
 
 
 
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Woule the Do not Track registry work like the Do not call registry?

2008-04-16 14:21:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Im not sure how good an idea this is. Im on every do not call list I can find and I still get calls. I do believe if you use my data to make a profit, you should reimburse me a lil clipped from news.yahoo.com Consumer groups urge do not track registry WASHINGTON (Reuters Two consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday...
 
Tags: track registry, track, list, call list, federal trade commission, computer users, consumer, bar advertisers, lil
 
 
 
 
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Still not Hacker Safe, roll the video

2008-04-25 15:11:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
Accuse me of beating a dead horse, but this really ticks me off. While preparing content for my monthly column , as well as presentation content for the ISSA NW Regional Security Conference , I found yet another bunch of McAfee Hacker Safe branded sites that are completely vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS), as well as other issues. The...
 
Tags: hacker safe, video, sites, mcafee hacker safe, completely vulnerable, vulnerable, security, regional security conference, content
 
 
 
 
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Why would the Government hire a security consultant and then not listen to him?

2008-06-19 19:56:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
I received an interesting piece from one of my friends in Homeland Security. It concerns Juval Aviv, the Bodyguard for Golda Meir and the person she sent out to track down those responsible for killing the Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympic games Apparently Mr. Aviv delivered a lecture in New York City a couple of weeks ago. He made...
 
Tags: aviv, aviv claims, concerns juval aviv, terrorist attack, people, terrorist, attack, airports, munich olympic games