Social networks, not branded networks
Apparently people in a social network like Facebook don’t mind the ads but they would not join a branded group according to this article Social network users reluctant to join branded groups Less than one third of social network users would be willing to join a brand’s group even with the offer of exclusive or […]
Websense Data Security Suite versus Verdasys Digital Guardian
A client recently asked me to help her compare the two DLP solutions. Here is what I said: Consider business, functional and technical perspectives when comparing Websense Data Security Suite with Verdasys Digital Guardian.
Fidelis granted a patent for network DLP
Interesting and a tribute to the great work that the amazing Gene Savchuk did on Fidelis XPS – the original extrusion prevention system or what we’re now calling network DLP (data loss prevention) With the granting of U.S. Patent No. 7,467,202 B2, Fidelis Security Systems became the first in the DLP industry to develop a […]
Data loss trends
There is a slight uptick in demand for our services, which I’ve put down to more aggressive marketing on our part. However – industry analysts have some interesting takes on which companies invest in data loss prevention. Not surprisingly – regulated industries (telecom, finance) buy DLP, unregulated (retail/manufacturing) and small-medium sized business don’t buy DLP. […]
A great year for data thieves
The Verizon Business Report on data breaches 2009 was released – the data breach investigations report headlines with 285 million data records breached in 2008: 91% of attackers were organized crime 74% of attacks by malicious outsiders 67% of vulnerabilities due to system defects 32% implicated business partners The report must be particularly disturbing to […]
Creativity beats cheap outsourcing
Most Israeli high-tech workers (and most have not been fired) have enough disposable income, a reasonably interesting job and a fairly clueless boss that is even more interested than them in personal job security. Salaries and costs (with all the perks) of an engineer in Israel are as high as in the US. Creativity not […]
Getting managers out of denial
Maybe you have a manager in denial? I know the feeling -the absence of effective risk controls for data security often start with denial of vulnerabilities. Here is a true story: …I’m not concerned about data theft. We’ve outsourced our entire IT operation to a big bank’s data center and they’re up to speed on […]
Identity theft myths
Identity theft and data loss prevention have two dimensions: The firms who create, store and process data Consumers The media tends to confuse the two issues – promoting various public and private agendas (for example – security product vendors who want to inflate the cost of damage of identity theft by counting the cost to […]
The death of regulation
I recently ran into a 2 year old post that decried the use of the term extrusion prevention calling it the “worst tech term of the year” I will cut the author of the article some slack as it was back in 2007 and a lot of folks were just coming to grips with the […]
German homeland security
I am on an email distribution list from the Israeli Export Institute for Israeli software and security companies. The Export Institute is organizing an event for Protecting Critical Infrastructure – the event is slated to take place Brandenburg, in Berlin-Schönefeld, 18 – 20 May 2009. I liked the use of standard security market-speak to describe the opportunity […]
