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New survey: Consumers plan to sharply limit use of cards (AKA, have we awakened a sleeping giant?)

2007-11-28 15:39:00 by Michael Concordia in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...respondents) on this very issue. The results are significant, if not surprising Three out of four consumers are concerned about companies not adequately protecting their data Two-thirds of consumers plan to use their credit card for less than 25% of their holiday purchases Only around 2% say they will continue shopping at a retailer they have...
 
Tags: data, customer data, cards, sloppy data protection, consumers, data protection, consumers plan, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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IT security lacking in best practices

2008-03-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473718 in Network World on Security
 
...respondents as the top IT security challenge affecting organizations today, according to a recent survey of 322 IT security professionals, undertaken by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance in partnership with Microsoft. Coming in a close second was data protection, cited by 15% of respondents, followed by access management, cited by 13
 
Tags: data protection, recent survey, cited, security professionals, access management, technology alliance, security challenge, practices knowledge, respondents
 
 
 
 
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Terrorism as a Tax

2008-05-12 06:29:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...respondents worried about being detained for hours because of a misstatement to immigration officials. And here is the ultimate irony: "More respondents were worried about U.S. immigration officials (70 percent) than about crime or terrorism (54 percent) when considering a trip to the country In Beyond Fear I wrote: Security is a tax on the...
 
Tags: tax, security, security risks, security countermeasures, security trade-offs, fear tax falls, security lines, beefed-up security forces, percent decline
 
 
 
 
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Over half admit they dont know if they are secure!

2008-09-24 23:45:18 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...respondents (13%) said they did not have any anti-virus software installed on their machines at all, while a further 9% did not know if anti-virus was installed. Almost one-fifth of respondents (19%) did not know if they had firewalls installed
 
Tags: security software, software, anti-virus software, anti-virus, respondents, online threats, masses continues, dirty websites, protection
 
 
 
 
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People find some reason to believe.

2007-02-08 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...respondents answered that they feel banks should use some kind of stronger authentication than basic and static user names-and-passwords for online banking
 
Tags: rsa consumer, rsa, consumer confidence survey, stronger authentication, static user, basic, shame, online, highlights
 
 
 
 
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Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

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2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links
...respondents report theyre running at least one virtualized server, yet less than 12% have a security strategy tailored to their virtual environment. Given the relative nascence of virtualization offerings for the x86 platform, this doesnt come as a shock, but that also doesnt mean its acceptable. Of those without a security plan in place,...
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes
 
 
 
 
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66.1 Host Locked

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2007-11-28 16:13:28 by HASH0x89e99bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...respondents surveyed feel that the trust in a brand would be greatly reduced if they received a phishing email claiming to be sent by that brand 41% of those surveyed felt that their trust in a bank would be greatly reduced if they received a phishing email claiming to be from that company, compared to 40% who felt the same for an ISP, 36%...
 
Tags: email, email service provider, email service, provider, responsibility, brand, internet service provider, default domain message, senders isp
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #3 "What Do You Do With Logs?" Analysis

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2007-12-07 09:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...respondents. Indeed, the movement started by the " enlightened " Leopold von Sacher-Masoch still lives and thrives: people choose the Build->Suffer approach to log management often enough Fourth, next come my somewhat self-inflicted surprise: apart from commercial log management (at 4%) and rolling one's own (discussed above at 10%), I added...
 
Tags: logs, store raw logs, log management business, log management, analysis, poll, commercial log management, raw logs, log management tools
 
 
 
 
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SmartWater Works

2008-01-21 12:17:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...respondents in regard to deterrent value, SmartWater was awarded the highest average score (8.3 out of a score of 10) compared to a range of other crime deterrents. CCTV scored 6.2, Burglar Alarms scored 6.0 and security guards scored 4.9 Of course, we don't know if the study was sponsored by SmartWater the company, and we don't know the...
 
Tags: smartwater, smartwater products, deterrent, smartwater postersign, reasonable deterrent, deterrent factor, study, strong, strong deterrent effect
 
 
 
 
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Aite Group Finds Huge Gains for CEP

2008-02-06 15:39:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...responden