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The Perfect Storm

2008-07-17 07:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...perfect storm is finished brewing - it is about to rain down upon us This may sound dramatic but I think that I may not be conveying the amount of pain that Information Security is about to receive. We will certainly have to step up our game Symantec and Verizon have done some interesting research into the underground hacker community and...
 
Tags: information, information security, personal information, credit card details, credit card, company information, credit card theft, wide-scale information theft, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Why Perfect Commerce is mothballing its data center

2008-01-28 00:00:00 by Carolyn Duffy Marsan in Network World on Security
 
Perfect Commerce, a Web-based sourcing and procurement service, is replacing its data center and related IT staff with a utility computing service from Savvis. The move is the latest example of a company choosing a utility service provider instead of internal IT department resources
 
Tags: utility service provider, utility, service, data center, perfect commerce, procurement service, department resources, move, staff
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft tries to create the perfect worm... for patch distribution

2008-02-18 08:31:01 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Microsoft researchers are working on the perfect worm--a critter that can distribute patches without the need for centralized servers while minimizing bandwidth
 
Tags: perfect worm, microsoft researchers, distribute patches, critter, bandwidth, servers
 
 
 
 
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Realization of Perfect Information - how it presents more risks to those creating value

2008-05-24 13:46:22 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
In the world of economics there is a concept called Perfect Information. It refers to the idea that in some markets you can assume everybody has the same information. For example, the market value of a publicly traded stock rarely changes by large amounts from one transaction to another. The stability of the system depends
 
Tags: perfect information, information, system depends, stock rarely, market, assume, markets, economics, world
 
 
 
 
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Oh No! Security Metrics!

2008-04-18 12:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...perfect metrics exist, it's useful to have some objective data when trying to discuss this complex subject. Our customers constantly tell us to reduce the number of patches they need to apply to their products once in deployment. It costs them time and money to deploy security updates. The primary metric that matters to customers is the...
 
Tags: bugs, implementation bugs, fewer security bugs, fewer, security bugs include, security, metrics, security metrics, security bugs
 
 
 
 
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Compliance is critical

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2008-07-15 15:25:12 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...perfect world The illustration below is intended to represent a perfect world condition, where all of the assets/systems/whatever are compliant with an organizations policies/standards. It also reflects the fact that there is no perfect security, and that the organization has wisely established its policies/standards with an acceptance of...
 
Tags: organizations risk exposure, risk exposure, risk, affects risk, compliance, ability, organizations ability, organizations, partys risk posture
 
 
 
 
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You Need An Address to Call 911

2007-08-23 09:23:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...perfect route to circumvent the winding streets It was perfect, on the other side of the tracks was the old highway (which I knew the hotel was on) running parallel to it. I was almost back to the hotel when I noticed a Lexus lying very awkwardly in a ditch. At first, I thought it was a runaway car that crashed. It could only be seen from the...
 
Tags: tracks, train tracks, railroad tracks, rail road tracks, hotel, address, road, expensive car, imperfect information
 
 
 
 
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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...perfectly good hotel room and opted to stay there instead of sitting on the freeway for what would have been a long, miserable drive back to Atlanta . There wasnt a bottle of water left on store shelves, so I decided Id be okay and just head back home in the morning I never expected that the storm would be strong enough to do any damage as...
 
Tags: home, home tuesday night, head home, call home, road warrior, tuesday, road, night, home friday night
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...perfect world insurance companies should not be able to use this against us. In fact Fred says Wouldn't we all be better off with an insurance system that wasn't able to discriminate between people based on pre-existing conditions? Wouldn't we be better off if we came together to insure everyone? Wouldn't we be better off if we knew...
 
Tags: health, health records public, public, fred, fred wilson, records, health profile, fred feels, google health service