Do you have a business need for DLP?
To be able to do something before it exists, sense before it becomes active, and see before it sprouts. The Book of Balance and Harmony (Chung-ho chi). A medieval Taoist book Will security vendors, large to small (Symantec, Mcafee, nexTier, ANBsys and others..) succeed in restoring balance and harmony to their customers by relabeling their product suites as unified content […]
Exploiting a wireless mesh network for utilities
I think it’s only a matter of time before someone exploits a wireless mesh network that controls and reads home utility meters to get free water and electricity. Until then, there is a problem of range and coverage. Greentech media reports that Trilliant ( a smart meter neighborhood networking startup) has bought SkyPilot for it’s […]
Less regulation, increased data security
Data security compliance regulation such as PCI DSS 1.2 is a double-edged sword – as a security checklist it’s an important step for the payment card industry but too much regulation, especially for small to mid-sized businesses is too much of a good thing. As my maternal grandmother, who spoke fluent Yiddish would yell at […]
Social networking business models
A colleague who has a startup in the US for social networking for doctors was whining to me the other day that advertising business models are dead for everyone except the top 5-10 Internet properties like Yahoo and Google. He said that Google does a great job of aggregating ads from small Web site but […]
Imperfect knowledge security
Keeping the organization robust in a highly dynamic threat environment Our capacity to predict will be confined to . . . general characteristics of the events to be expected and not include the capacity for predicting particular individual events. . .Yet the danger of which I want to warn is precisely the belief that in […]
Pharmas, Web 2.0 and regulation
For a change – ethics based regulation that differentiates between the medium and the message. Dr. Jean Ah Kang, works at DDMAC and is in charge of Web 2.0 policy development. She speaks very well at her interview with Mark Senak, a regulatory affairs lawyer ( eyeonfda.com ). Here is the podcast: FDA’s views and […]
Off-label marketing
I recently read an article by Adriane Fugh-Berman and Douglas Melnick about Off-Label Promotion, On-Target Sales In the pharmaceutical industry, there are two ways to market an approved drug for a new use: the “indication” route—performing studies necessary for regulatory approval—or the “publication” strategy, which stimulates off-label prescribing by using research “to disseminate the information […]
Designing a data security system
User-Driven Design versus User-Centered design Alan Cooper, in his book The Inmates are Running the Asylum, draws a distinction between user-centered design and user-driven design. User-driven design is about collecting, prioritizing and implementing a system to the user requirements – we’ve all been seen software development projects where the requirements spiraled out of control and […]
BizSpark
I just got an invite to Bizspark from thefunded.com “Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources “; basically free development software and a hook into a community of potential investors. A lot of the comments on techcrunch were of a religious nature, calling […]
Are you a leader or a friend?
Although I served in the Israeli Army – I was what they called a “simple soldier”, a communications tech in a van. Our officer was glad that we kept things working – and that was fair enough we thought. After grad school, serving in the armies of high-tech samurai, I learned that commanders fight with […]
