Reducing risk of major data loss events
Martin Hellman (of Diffie Hellman) fame maintains the Nuclear Risk web site and has written a very insightful piece on risk analysis of nuclear war entitled Soaring, cryptography and nuclear weapons Hellman proposes that we need a third state scenario (instead current state – > nuclear war) where the risk of nuclear holocaust has been […]
Physical security in Afghanistan
If you thought that working in high-tech is rough – just consider how tough it is to be a musician in Afghanistan. JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign […]
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 […]
Why I am voting Likud
My friend Jacob Richman wrote a page on his web site explaining why he will vote Ichud Leumi (NUP). As a person who has traditionally voted for religious/Zionist parties – I feel compelled to answer Jacob in public. There are a number of flaws in his argumentations regarding the National Union Party (NUP) 1. The […]
Nihilistic security
Nihilism asserts that objective morality does not exist: therefore – there is no objective moral value with which to uphold a rule or to logically prefer one action over another. The wave of the liberal left which swept Western Europe and is now growing in US as the Obama administration takes office, asserts that there […]
Better physical security with more eyeballs
Big companies have lobbies and receptionists. They may have many visitors during the day not to mention messengers from FedEx, DHL, TNT, Poczta etc. A DHL courier recently visited the offices of a client to pick up a package. He walked in, picked up 5 expensive mobile computers and notebooks, put them in the pouch […]
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 […]
What’s in a name?
Would someone explain the difference between Militants and Terrorist Organizations? Do definitions matter? The PCI DSS 1.2 standard confusingly labels anti-virus “threat management” and security folks often confuse a vulnerability (a state of weakness of an asset) with a threat (something or someone that exploits the vulnerability to cause damage to the asset). I guess […]
Why Israel is losing the war against terror
It is crucial to ask how we can adopt and execute a sustainable long-term strategy to combat and win the war against Islamic terror. I’m an Israeli and we have seen a series of Israeli governments attempt to combat terror. In most cases, the strategy to combat Palestinian terror centers on worrying what the US […]
The Israeli Supreme Court is a security vulnerability
I got this from my sister in-law Judith Bedichi this morning – it was written by Dr. Guy Bechor and describes an escalation of security threats to the Jewish State of Israel. The Israeli Supreme Court is highly-regarded yet clearly preferential to Israeli Arabs, with liberal rulings allowing operations of radical Islamic groups in the […]
