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 credit crunch, Cisco and Nortel

I was talking with my friend Gennady Weizman yesterday about medium term (as in the next 6-18 months) impact of the current financial markets crisis on the tech market.   Most of our business is in the telecom industry – so I have an interest in whether our clients will have money to spend. it appears […]

Business threat modeling

These are dangerous times for a business. Every day brings another threat. The sub-prime crisis, the crash of world financial markets, the price of oil (going way up and now going down again), an impending crash of the US sub-prime credit card market (like how long can you charge 35% over the top interest rates?), […]