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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...trouble. Even for the people who are good at it, putting a process in place is great for coverage, assurance and reproducibility. But the experts dont expose the cracks in a process in the same way as asking everyone to participate Getting Started The first problem with the threat modeling process is that there are a lot of processes. People,...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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Innovators, Imitators and Idiots

2008-10-07 08:32:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...trouble is, there are no clocks on the wall. And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12 Its effectively the job of leadership to know when to take the punch bowl away and to have the credibility to do this. This is also the risk-reward balance that infosec must try to strike, part of the answer is differentiating risk...
 
Tags: risk, oeprational risk, risk events, risk-reward balance, wise people, people, buffett raises, buffett, blind risk acceptance
 
 
 
 
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Interop Vegas 2008 - A Tale of User Error

2008-06-13 04:27:25 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
...trouble tickets that were opened in EM7 for Interop Vegas 2008, doesnt necessarily play that story out. If the types of problems that exhibitors experienced are indicative of the staff in the booth, it seems like it was largely marketing people, and not engineers at all. Lets take a brief look at the ticketing numbers A total of 155 trouble...
 
Tags: tickets, trouble tickets, trouble, vegas, interop vegas, interop, em7, em7 trouble, issue
 
 
 
 
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Michael Vick's journey from the NFL to a jail cell

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2007-12-11 03:13:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...trouble. While a personal protection agent's main role is usually keeping his client safe from outside threats and attacks, in the case of celebrities, this often means keeping them safe - from themselves A colleague and I were talking last year about an assignment that involved protecting a world famous boxer who had a penchant for getting...
 
Tags: vick, michael vick, client safe, client, time, nfl, federal time, risk, risk management
 
 
 
 
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Wrapping up Threat Modeling

2008-02-14 22:51:35 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. (George Orwell, Politics and the English Language We ask people to threat model (as...
 
Tags: threat, threat modelers, threat models, threat model, design, design specification, specification, set, challenges set people
 
 
 
 
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Be careful what you ask for.

2007-12-08 21:43:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...trouble is with surveillance. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, only Police Officers and properly licensed investigators are allowed by law to conduct surveillance. Believe it or not, a husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other can get arrested for watching or following their partner around even if they believe the partner is...
 
Tags: professional investigators association, investigators, professional investigators, law, law firms alike, person, ethical, ethical companies, illegal
 
 
 
 
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Fun Financial News Economic Meltdown Overdue?

2008-09-15 17:00:07 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...trouble right now Ebay laying off around 1500 workers Corbis Cutting 170 Jobs, as its start-up rival Photoshelter closes its doors Washington Mutual in trouble HP cutting 24,600 jobs B of A stocks tumble as the bank buys Merrill Lync Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac taken over by the Feds a couple weeks back Ive read in many places that even though...
 
Tags: fewer jobs, jobs, tumble, stocks tumble, freddie mac, economic, favorite political, tough times, fannie mae
 
 
 
 
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Deloitte & Touche and IKON lose confidential information

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2007-12-20 14:23:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trouble. Laptop drive encryption is extremely easy to implement and manage corporate wide...and has been for years. So, why is this still happening? - Jim Commentary According to the letter to affected individuals, IKON Office Solutions was responsible for scanning pension fund documents Although IKON definitely has blame in the cause of...
 
Tags: information, touche, ikon, confidential information, information security controls, deloitte, third-parties secure information, touche partners, ikon office solutions
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #56

2007-04-02 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (09:57). Information security is an ever-changing and evolving industry and those of us who work in it sometimes have trouble feeling "secure" in our career choice. This week, Mike Murray www.episteme.ca , a security blogger, podcaster, and writer www.forgettheparachute.com , speaks with Paul Joyal about this--and...
 
Tags: security blogger, career choice, mike murray, paul joyal, information security, listendownload, secure, speaks, podcaster
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Horsies

2007-03-12 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I was sitting in the living room of my best friends' (G and his wife N) house the other night. They're a happening bohemian couple who live in the swinging, cool part of town, and they invited me over for a drink and "to have a talk" with me. The conversation started out light-hearted until they broached the subject of fixing me up on a date. I...
 
Tags: gift horse, mouth, worthy intellectual capacity, bohemian couple, fair stature,