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Would armed security officers in Omaha have saved lives?

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2007-12-11 00:17:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...saved 100 lives That is why it is difficult to understand the comments made to CNN from certain security sources. Don Greene, a retired FBI agent said that it would be difficult for anyone to have predicted the actions of the killer at the Westroads Mall in Omaha. Fair enough. However, the Omaha Chief of Police reported that mall security...
 
Tags: officer, female security officer, security, security officers, police, police officers, police officer, security officer, mall
 
 
 
 
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A top-down approach to Risk & Compliance Management could have saved TJX some serious money

2007-12-05 13:29:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...saved TJX some serious money by: Ryan Shopp Everyone, including me, keeps reading about the TJX data breach. Here are some prime snippets from a few recent articles I've read Industry analysts have estimated the total costs to TJX from $500 million to as much as $1 billion, when legal settlements and loss of market share and sales are...
 
Tags: tjx, saved tjx, tjx data breach, approach, top-down approach, tjx report, top-down, tjx breach, information security
 
 
 
 
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Cost/Benefit Analysis of Airline Security

2008-07-21 05:53:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...saved as a result of such expenditure. An assessment of the Federal Air Marshal Service suggests that the annual cost is $180 million per life saved. This is greatly in excess of the regulatory safety goal of $1-$10 million per life saved. As such, the air marshal program would seem to fail a cost-benefit analysis. In addition, the...
 
Tags: cost-effective, cost-effective security measure, cost, cost-effective measure, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis, additional cost, cost-benefit assessment, benefit
 
 
 
 
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Church killer stopped by private security officer

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2007-12-10 23:00:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...saved over one hundred lives" by her quick thinking The Pastor himself deserves a lot of credit for his proactive measures. He increased his security team for yesterday's service and ensured that at least one security officer was armed, following the shooting incident at a church in Arvada, about 70 miles away. As the Pastor said;...
 
Tags: officer, security officer, armed officer, law enforcement officer, security, church, brave security officer, security team, security officers
 
 
 
 
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Four stages to establishing a successful IT Risk Management Lifecycle

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2007-11-27 13:24:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
...saved, how much time could be saved, how better the customer service experience could be or even how it would increase employee morale as they are so frustrated with this situation). Now, take these to your manager and explain that you've got buy-in from these other people/groups and these are the "big bang for your buck" items to "make him...
 
Tags: risk management lifecycle, risk management, management, step process, step life cycle, step, process, time, peers
 
 
 
 
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Saving NGO Security Scenario Videos

2008-04-05 22:22:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...saved in your clipboard to the text box at the top of the KeepVid Web page Click the Download button Two options are displayed - .flv Low Quality and .mp4 High Quality. Click the link of your choice to start downloading. (A file named get video is saved. Rename it to something a little more meaningful The .flv format saves the video to your...
 
Tags: videos, youtube video, youtube video url, scenario, save youtube videos, youtube video clip, video, save scenario videos, weekly scenario
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...saved Disney and launched an entire consumer market for home video. They worried about it with DVDs, which have brought in billions of dollars to the media industry despite the fact that CSS was broken in 1999. Their fear and illogical behavior impedes and irritates their consumers while having absolutely no effect on the spread of piracy...
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...saved EIP and SEH, and can be exploited for arbitrary code execution Could the SDL have caught this bug? Probably, either through fuzzing, code inspection or static-analysis. All of which are SDL requirements. With that said, integer overflows can be hard to spot. .SAM File Parser Vulnerability This bug is caused by an insecure call to...
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec, bugs affect ibm, bugs, sdl refers
 
 
 
 
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The Pseudo "Real Players"

2008-01-14 18:12:00 by HASH0x86ec1f0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
 
...saved from near infection As I'm sure others too like to analyze post incident response behavior of the malicious parties, in respect to this particular attack, during the weekend they took advantage of what's now a patent of the Russian Business Network , namely to serve a fake 404 error message but continue the campaign. However, in RBN's...
 
Tags: main campaign domains, domains, campaign, real players, attack, error, malware attack, error messages, realplayer