Worst executive behavior of the month award
For my Israeli readers – הדבר היחיד שיותר גרוע מלהיות לא רציני זה לצאת פרייר. I’m collecting data for a couple of articles on data security in social networks and ad-hoc mobile networks so I’ve been a little slow on blogging lately – so I’m down to general management and risk management stuff. I think […]
Night walking on the freeway
Ian Fleming once remarked how American road signs were so sexy – “winding curves” and “soft shoulders”. I was thinking of Ian Fleming taking an unexpected 5K walk at night on the shoulders of a 6 line freeway. Last night I was driving my daughter’s car on Route 6. There was a leak in the […]
UK gets serious in the war on corruption
David Benyon from Op Risk and Compliance magazine reports A new bribery and corruption legislation will be put before the UK parliament. Doing business using bribery would mean jail for a decade under the bill. “The new Bribery Bill will make it far easier for companies and senior management to be prosecuted where bribes have […]
Small Business Information Security
Small businesses need information security – perhaps even more than a big business because they probably have less resources and are more vulnerable to hackers. NIST has released guidelines for Small Business Information Security –
Data security for an SMB – Flying First Class on a budget
A talk I give recently at one of our Thursday online workshops on data security More data security presentations from danny lieberman
Data security presentations
My prospects are out, it’s beautiful weather (already got my morning ride in thank you) and time to clean up my desk for the weekend. I need to talk about data security presentations. Most of them are horrible – heavy on technical details or heavy on corporate marketing fluff. If the presentation is about same […]
Dissonance is bad for business
In music, dissonance is sound quality which seems “unstable”, and has an aural “need” to “resolve” to a “stable” consonance. Leading up to the Al Quaeda attack on the US in 9/11, the FBI investigated, the CIA analyzed but no one bothered to discuss the impact of Saudis learning to fly but not land airplanes. […]
Data security metrics
Anything can be measured. As Bertrand Russell wrote – All exact science is based on approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. This is one of the talks I gave at our weekly Thursday seminar – […]
Data loss prevention from inside out
I love how this Cisco video clip on Blip TV starts with examples of DDOS attacks and then uses shots of incoming content filtering and then dramatizes with a cop not allowing a visitor into the booth – what is going on here? Cisco didn’t have budget for an editor who knows the difference between […]
Cultural factors in security
At the DLP Expert 2009 conference in Moscow 2 weeks ago I heard the following insight from Bill Nagel from Forrester: American companies are rule-based. 40% of US companies state that they have implemented some form of DLP technology. European companies are principles-based. In EMEA, 80% of chief security officers do not have plans to […]
