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Hospitals reduce cost of electronic medical records

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
Replacing paper medical records with electronic ones can reduce errors, and save lives, but cost and complexity prevents most doctors from upgrading
 
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server 2008 security and compliance features reduce security risks

2008-03-13 12:35:55 by Abbey M. Weintraub in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
How far did Microsoft go to amp up its newest version of SQL Server? IT security specialist Kevin Beaver examines new features specific and nonspecific to database security and how they reduce security risks. Learn about schema-based permissions capabilities, data encryption at the file level and the new Declarative Management framework
 
 
 
 
 
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Smaller footprint, less risk

2007-08-13 22:01:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...Reduce exposure to make it less likely the event will happen Take steps to reduce the impact you'll sustain if it does happen Risk purists will argue that you can also transfer the risk, but I'd argue that's really just an extension of #2... In the transferred risk model, we let another entity - like an insurance company - share some of the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Best Practices For DLP Content Discovery: Use Cases

2008-05-01 17:32:42 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...reduced audit time and costs materially (more than the total cost of the DLP solution). One goal of the project is to scan the entire enterprise at least once a quarter, with critical systems scanned on either a daily or weekly basis. RetailSportsCo has improved security and reduced risk by reducing the potential number of targets, and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security is not all about Security Updates

2007-12-17 12:58:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...reduce the number of vulnerabilities that creep into the software's design and code. I want to emphasize this point because this is the single most important goal of the SDL: To reduce the number of vulnerabilities in software products. This is not about who can fix bugs faster, SDL is about reducing the chance that vulnerabilities are added...
 
 
 
 
 
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Should We Treat Contractors The Same as Employees?

2008-03-26 13:47:43 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...reduce the Frequency of Loss Events for our populations (W2, 1099). Now for any threat community, we can do one of three things 1.) Reduce the Frequency of Contact This is really either blocking, cordoning, obfuscation, what have you. For W2s and 1099s our ability to reduce Frequency of Contact may be limited 2.) Reduce the Probability of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Models and Reductionism - Reducing Clouds Into Streams

2008-04-14 01:17:58 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...reduce complexity CEP was envisioned todiscover causal relationships in complex, uncertain,cloudydataand the current state-of-the-art of software from the streaming SQL vendors do not have this capability, unless you reduce all event models to ordered sets of streaming data (reduce POSETS to TOSETS Reductionismcan bea valid technique, of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Oh No! Security Metrics!

2008-04-18 12:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...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 number of security updates they need to apply. And the only way to reduce the number of updates is to systematically reduce the number and severity...
 
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...Reduce the attack surface By disabling emulated devices, features and services you don't need you reduce the amount of code exposed to an attacker, thus reducing the number of possible bugs that can be exploited. You should also aim to protect the integrity of the guest operating system, making it harder for an attacker to get lower level...