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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...prevent false alarms: Q: Prior to 1870, street corner fire alarm pull boxes were kept locked. Why were they kept locked and how did a person gain access to 'pull the box A: They were kept locked due to false alarms. Nearby shopkeepers or beat cops carried the keys Here's Robert Cromie, writing in The Great Chicago Fire (Thomas Nelson: 1994),...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
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The Fox and the Henhouse

2008-01-28 15:02:17 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...prevent after you¹ve seen a lot of them; the reason you pay a risk manager is to prevent the exceptional frauds Second, the bank describes Kerviel¹s job as "plain vanilla futures hedging." The worry here is that the bank¹s risk managers think futures hedging risks not worth worrying about because they¹re just "plain vanilla The third...
 
Tags: societe generale, societe generale begins, yesterday societe generale, societe generale appears, risk management lessons, risk management, risk management personnel, plain vanilla futures, apparently
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...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 the attacks we describe The others mentioned above, in case you were wondering, are McGregor et al Check out his blog on...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers
 
 
 
 
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The Fox and the Henhouse

2008-01-28 15:02:17 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...prevent after you??ve seen a lot of them; the reason you pay a risk manager is to prevent the exceptional frauds Second, the bank describes Kerviel??s job as "plain vanilla futures hedging." The worry here is that the bank??s risk managers think futures hedging risks not worth worrying about because they??re just "plain vanilla The third...
 
Tags: societe generale, societe generale begins, jerome kerviel, kerviel, yesterday societe generale, apparently, bank apparently, bank, prevent kerviel
 
 
 
 
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So, CAN We Have DLP?

2008-06-20 16:59:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...prevention Well, can we have IDS? How about IPS? Can we really "prevent intrusions?" Can we really "control access to our networks The answer to "can we have DLP?" is actually pretty simple: if you think "DLP = box that prevents all data leaks" (and you also think that deploying IPS will "prevent intrusions"), then we can't. Forget it But...
 
Tags: dlp, cutting-edge dlp technologies, dlp technology, dlp box, leak prevention, leak, non-malicious leaks, leaks, loss
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

2008-06-26 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...prevent students from texting one another during class The possibilities are endless, and very dangerous. Making this work involves building a nearly flawless hierarchical system of authority. That's a difficult security problem even in its simplest form. Distributing that system among a variety of different devices -- computers, phones,...
 
Tags: security, wireless devices, devices, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Kill Switches and Remote Control

2008-07-01 06:48:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...prevent students from texting one another during class. The possibilities are endless, and very dangerous. Making this work involves building a nearly flawless hierarchical system of authority. That's a difficult security problem even in its simplest form. Distributing that system among a variety of different devices -- computers, phones,...
 
Tags: wireless devices, devices, devices inevitably, digital manners policies, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students
 
 
 
 
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Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot!"

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2008-07-29 15:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...prevent the bad guys from doing "an unspeakable evil" (tm) :-) on you. On the other hand, good guys are doing "the right thing" every time - why monitor them? It goes without saying that nobody ever moves between these groups, especially, not from "good guys" to "bad guys As I am rambling about this, many of my security-minded readers are...
 
Tags: terry childs, childs, guys, admins, terry childs story, bad boss, boss, underneath management, management
 
 
 
 
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Armchair Legal Analysis of Sierra v. Ritz

2008-01-17 20:25:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...prevent access being generally irrelevant. They have relied on the traditional definition of trespass and attempted to apply it to the electr0nic world In the physical world trespass is relatively easy to understand, police, etc. There are obviously corner cases where you can trespass onto unmarked land, not realize you're trespassing, etc....
 
Tags: dns zone transfers, zone transfers, trespass, prevent trespass, prevent zone transfers, computer, computer fraud, physical world trespass, lot murkier