How to valuate information assets
A client recently asked: How do I assign a dollar value to an assets?…should I use the purchase value of the asset, replacement value or expected damage to the company if the asset were stolen or exploited? Estimating asset value is without doubt the most frequent question we get when it comes to calculating data […]
Data security for an SMB – Flying First Class on a budget
A talk I give recently at one of our Thursday online workshops on data security More data security presentations from danny lieberman
Data security for SMB
Yesterday, I gave a talk at our Thursday security Webinar about data security for SMB (small to mid-sized businesses). I’ve been thinking about DLP solutions for SMB for a couple of years now; the market didn’t seem mature or perhaps SMB customer awareness was low, but with the continued wave of data security breaches, everyone […]
It’s My Way or “La Puerta”
The role of a supervisor in protecting company data. There is a feeling of entitlement in the Western world that enables employees to use company resources for private purposes. If can use a pencil, you can use a phone, if you can use a phone, you can use your PC to surf the Net on […]
Product counterfeiting in aerospace industry
This seems to be my weekend for product counterfeiting. I was in Tel Aviv last week on Dizengoff and picked up a couple of paperbacks at the “Book Junkie” bookstore for 5 sheqels/book (that’s about $1.25!) – one of them was Michael Crichtons’ novel Airframe (The book is genuine… and they have an amazing collection […]
Three simple ways of preventing data loss
When I was a solid state physics grad student at Bar Ilan, I had two advisors – Prof. Nathan Aviezer and Prof. Moshe Kaveh (who is now the President of the university). Aviezer was fond of saying that he only does simple things. I was calculating electrical conductivity of aluminum at low temperatures and due […]
N Digital TV data breach in Poland
Polish digital TV broadcaster N (owned by ITI Neovision) has disclosed a breach of customer data records – after PII was discovered accidentally on the Net by a subscriber via a search engine. The partner who manages our offices in Warsaw (the team specializes in high end data security consulting and DLP projects in Central […]
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 […]
Imperfect knowledge security
A few months ago I wrote about The Black Swan of Security – how major data loss events have 3 common characteristics – 1) A major data loss event appears as a complete surprise to the company . 2) Data loss has a major impact to the point of maiming or destroying the institution (note […]
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 […]
