Invisibility cloak
DIdn’t you want one of those invisibility cloaking devices back when you were in High School? I sure did – but I grew up on Star Trek According to the Discovery Channel – we’re within 6 months of a cloaking device – the only catch is that it will only be good for 2D surfaces. […]
Houston, we have a problem
Are you like the rest of the lemmings? Most companies we know – don’t have the faintest idea of what’s going on inside the corporate network. Once the company management discovers that almost all their employees cc company documents to their gmail accounts so they can access the data at home – it becomes […]
The truth about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
The one-sided UN resolution that didn’t even mention Hamas was not surprising. It’s 14 days into the war on Hamas in Gaza and it appears a good time to share a few brief facts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – 1. Nationhood and Jerusalem. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E. Two thousand years before the […]
Are you on your firewall, while your employees are on Gmail?
Pop question No. 1: What percent of your employees send sensitive company documents to their Gmail accounts? Pop question No. 2: When you layoff 15 percent of your workforce, should you fire the information security manager a) First, b) Last or c) Give her an incentive to help ensure that a data breach of […]
Agency Accidentally Posts Social Security Numbers Online
I think the expression is – “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. I got wind of this data breach event from the IS Alliance. As reported by WFTV Orlando – Social security numbers for 250,000 people were posted online by mistake, and a state agency is facing serious questions about why it […]
Ex-Intel worker charged with $1B data theft
Big time data theft event, this time by an employee leaving Intel to go to work for AMD. A Worcester, Mass. man has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth more than $1 billion. Biswamohan Pani, 33, was indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Intel’s Hudson, Mass. facility and downloading confidential documents from Intel […]
Spector 360, data loss prevention tool?
Remember the “The Phil Spector Sound”? (I grew up on rock and roll just outside of Philly and when you say Spector, I associate it with Phil Spector or Arlen Spector – my mind is just wired that way…. A business partner of ours in a developing country asked me a security product question today. […]
Bank employee steals 100,000 sheqels
This is a classic case of trusted insider threat – as reported by yesterday’s morning paper – “Israel Today”: ( i assume that this has been under investigation for a while so the actual event may have happened over a year ago…). The arrest sheet in the Tel Aviv district court depicts collusion between an […]
Preventing data loss or reacting to data loss.
I love New York but I live in Israel. DLP (Data Loss Prevention or extrusion prevention) is an important category of IT security that helps protect data from leaving the network. Keeping the good stuff in, as opposed to keeping the bad guys out. Israel has a booming IT security industry with Checkpoint, Radware, Algosec, […]
What do hackers want?
What do hackers really want? No question is more important for mounting effective security countermeasures. The management, IT and security practitioners cannot expect to mitigate risk effectively without knowing the objectives and cost of potential attacks on their organization. We all depend on transaction processing to run our business and make decisions, no matter how […]
