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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...occur, merit some form of heightened protection These principles and the US self-regulatory approach to the issue of behavioral advertising were presented this month to the European Parliaments Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs . The committee was considering the privacy policy implications of behavioural marketing"...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Events

2008-03-30 17:20:05 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...occurs when available force becomes greater than the ability to resist that force, then vulnerability can come about in one or more of three ways 1. Resistance strength is diminished in some manner (e.g., cutting part-way through a rope 2. Available force increases so that it exceeds existing levels of resistance (e.g., more weight is added...
 
Tags: vulnerability, relative term, term, loss events occur, loss events, vulnerability events matter, loss, actual loss, relative term requires
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 1

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2008-05-05 18:12:14 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...occur with a quantitative model), but rather tends to be a problem with how an analyst communicates results to management With that in mind, I thought Id write a couple of posts about communicating risk. In this weeks post, Ill talk about risk qualifiers that can be critical in helping management understand the true nature of some risk...
 
Tags: risk, effective, cost-effective risk management, fragile condition exists, condition, unstable condition, risk qualifiers, risk condition, risk chart perspective
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 2

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2008-05-20 16:22:24 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...occurring. In fact, you may see explicit probability ranges assigned to each qualitative label (e.g., Very High = 90% to 100% probable ). And, while this seems to be on the right track, there are two problems with it It often doesnt include a timeframe reference. In other words, does the likelihood statement refer to the probability of the...
 
Tags: risk, managements risk tolerance, enterprise risk tolerance, risk tolerance, likelihood, risk analysis, likelihood connotes, lines, likelihood statement refer
 
 
 
 
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The top six corporate email risks

2007-10-27 19:27:40 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...occur from within the company. These breaches can be accidental, but they can also be intentional. Some years ago, a well-known software company filed a lawsuit against one of their former employees who had used the companys email system to send out confidential information to their competitor, his new employer. The trade secrets included...
 
Tags: risks, email risks, email, email disclaimer, email communications, companys email system, company network, company, explicit email
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...occur, there are three general categories of potential vulnerabilities 1) Design vulnerabilities software that was not designed adequately to meet security requirements, needs, or expectations 2) Implementation vulnerabilities software that exposes risk based on implementation deficiencies 3) Deployment vulnerabilities software that was...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...occur later, however Now that collection and management are 'taken care of' in many organizations, log analysis will (again...) come to the forefront = yes. In the end of 2008, we will be doing log analysis in a large number of fun, new ways - it won't just be about rule-based correlation and keyword searching anymore (Andrew agrees Last...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...occur. They have good reasons -- called rival rationalities -- for fearing catastrophes that kill large numbers at once because these events affect the whole community and damage the social fabric It doesn't surprise me that fear of terrorism is more harmful than actual terrorism. That's the whole point of terrorism: an amplification of fear...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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New faces and predictions for the New Year...

2008-01-22 22:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...occur and the relationship to SDL In addition, we'll take this opportunity to introduce two new folks who recently joined our team: Bryan Sullivan and Jeremy Dallman. Welcome! A brief introduction paragraph from each of them in included below, followed by the predictions. Hope you enjoy Bryan Sullivan : Hi everyone - my name is Bryan Sullivan...
 
Tags: sdl team, team, sdl, sdl blog crew, cve, cve vulnerabilities, microsoft, single prediction, microsoft products
 
 
 
 
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Why the Need to Remove Adware and Spyware

2007-08-01 19:18:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...occur in the computer's operating system, because these spywares are undetectable by ordinary means, users tend to believe that the problems were brought about by problems in the hardware or by a computer virus. But all the while, a spyware program is the one causing the ruckus More often not, a computer will be infected with more than one...