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A sneak peek at a Black Hat presentation

2008-07-30 18:08:27 by HASH0x8c270c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Patrick McGregor, CEO of BitArmor Systems is presenting at Black Hat as well. As part of our promotion with the SBN and Black Hat I have made my blog available to Patrick to give us a sneak peek at his presentation. Patrick was nice enough to prepare the following: Braving the Cold (Boot) A Sneak Peek of My Presentation at Black Hat by...
 
Tags: boot, bios boot process, cold boot attacks, attacks, cold, black hat, disk encryption, keys, wipe keys immediately
 
 
 
 
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Patrick Smith on Aviation Security

2008-01-11 13:47:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Excellent essay from The New York Times : In the end, I'm not sure which is more troubling, the inanity of the existing regulations, or the average American's acceptance of them and willingness to be humiliated. These wasteful and tedious protocols have solidified into what appears to be indefinite policy, with little or no opposition. There...
 
Tags: security, actual security, security zealots, security experts, security spectacle, expect street protests, airport security, expect, american public
 
 
 
 
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Can security improve your bottom line?

2008-01-18 16:23:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Patrick had discussed how this applies in the context of PCI and comparing it to the benefits realized by companies who invested in Y2K At the end of the day I think well implmented security reduces transaction costs in business, reduces disruptions and therefore will be beneficial to the bottom line Now, all we have to do is quantify it!...
 
Tags: business, business processes, security, bottom line, real benefits, challenge, harder challenge, benefits, roland cloutier
 
 
 
 
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Data-breach laws and business concerns

2008-01-15 16:10:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Patrick McGregor had some interesting points to make on this subject in this SC Magazine article
 
Tags: data-breach laws, law, california law, requires notification, patrick mcgregor, medical information, businesses, magazine article, security solutions
 
 
 
 
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Got Milk? Stuff I did not know about data protection and privacy

2007-11-26 01:49:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Patrick, our CEO, presented on the importance of a data-centric view on protecting and managing data) and stumbled across a few interesting tidbits that I did now know. Here is one that came up during a conversation about consumer privacy and how aggregated data is being mined for interesting information. Similar to the famous beer-diaper...
 
Tags: milk purchase, purchase, reduce purchase frequency, data, milk, purchase frequency, mined data, mined, data-centric view
 
 
 
 
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Warming the cold boot a bit of braggin from BitArmor

2008-02-28 13:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Patrick McGregor is one of the researchers mentioned in the Princeton paper as having proposed architectural enhancements to prevent (the key word being prevent :))these attacks. From the paper Others have proposed architectures that would routinely encrypt the contents of memory for security purposes [28, 27]. These would apparently prevent...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers
 
 
 
 
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Harvard University warns graduate students about web hack

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2008-03-14 00:25:51 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Patrick Hamm, a spokesman for Harvard's Graduate Student Council Harvard discovered the attack Feb. 16 after information from 19 graduate student-housing applications appeared on an Internet site called Pirate Bay that hosts anonymous information, said Daniel Moriarty, the university's chief information officer Evan] Unreal. The school was...
 
Tags: university, harvard university, harvard university gazette, harvard, gsas administrators, gsas, information, personal information, gsas site
 
 
 
 
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RSA 2008 Keynote: Craig Mundie

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2008-04-10 00:16:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Patrick McGregor, Ph.D CEO BitArmor Jon Callas CTO & CSO PGP Corporation Conrad G. Bayer Senior Vice President IDA Strategy Avalaris, Inc Edward J. Gaudet Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Marketing Liquid Machines I did get a couple of these folks on video as well, so once I get that edited and uploaded, I'll update...
 
Tags: keynote, trust, trust forum, end-to-end trust topic, microsoft keynote, microsoft, microsoft partners, craig, craig mundie
 
 
 
 
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Our 6th Annual IT Hot Topics Conference!

2008-04-23 15:04:44 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...Patrick Wheeler (Symantec), moderated by fellow security blogger buddy Alan Shimel of StillSecure. Our other panel is participating in the Hot Topics Roundtable discussion, led by John McCumber with a panel comprised of industry experts, technical gurus and even legal expertise to weigh in on Web 2.0 issues. Its going to be awesome Heres an...
 
Tags: hot topics conference, hot topics, topics, conference, hot topics roundtable, conference center, event, event website, customer appreciation event