The threat behind the House Tri-Committee Bill on Health Care
Don’t ask me why, but I was invited (and joined) the Pakistan Networkers group on LinkedIn. I see all kinds of cool job opportunities in the Emirates which I can’t really take but the traffic is interesting. I saw this picture in a post today from the Pakistan Networkers group. It graphically describes the complexity […]
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 […]
The death of age in market segmentation
I first got wind that age as a marketing segmentation parameter was becoming much less relevant about 3 years ago when I paid a sales call to Castro Model ( a big Israeli fashion house with a chain of retail stores) to try and sell them a data loss prevention solution from Fidelis Security Systems. […]
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 […]
Simplicity and technical superiority
In today’s environment of financial crisis, the tradeoff managers usually make is coverage against cost. IT and corporate management are more concerned with reducing outsourcing costs and cutting back on professional services instead of achieving and sustaining technical excellence in security and compliance. Technical superiority in IT security will not enlarge your market share or […]
Data security and the sin of hubris
Hayek wrote in his Nobel lecture – “I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge. . . to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.” One of the biggest sins of man is hubris. The Obama administration is guilty of hubris. As an American living outside the US in the […]
The role of DLP in IP protection
A common conversation I have with my technology clients touches on patent protection as a security countermeasure against abuse of intellectual property. The short answer is that if you’re not DuPont or Roche, then patent protection is not going to help you very much. If you develop software , you are probably infringing someone’s patents […]
Data loss prevention at work – video and porn
Bahya ibn Paquda was the author of the first Jewish system of ethics written in Arabic in 1040 under the title Al Hidayah ila Faraid al-Qulub, Guide to the Duties of the Heart. In his view, most people acted in accord with selfish, worldly motives. This was almost 2,000 years ago before the age of […]
Data loss prevention for SME
Is a SME like the old German expression – Kleine Kinder kleine Sorgen, große Kinder große Sorgen? “Small children, small problems, big children, big problems”? I wanted to call this post “The need to understand operational risk of information security” – but I realised that op risk is a concept used by big banks and […]
Choosing a data loss prevention solution
Data security is not one-size fits all. For example, if the threat scenario is an attack on your customer self-service Web application – obfuscating or encrypting fields in database tables is not an effective security countermeasure; you need a network DLP solution to prevent leaks of clear text data and a software security assessment that […]
