Knowledge Prostitution in clinical data
Friday, a client asked me about privacy, data security and social networking in clinical trials. The client told me that they were considering using a physicians‘ portal to market their digital therapeutic product after they completed their pivotal clinical trial. (See my article on 4 strategies to get FDA approval for your medical device ). […]
Picking Your Way Through the Mime Field
Picking Your Way Through the Mime Field We’re a professional software security consultancy and experienced software developers. Almost 10 years, one of our partners proposed that we develop a utility to encrypt Microsoft Outlook email messages. A prototype was developed – but an interesting thing happened when we started talking to potential beta customers […]
Kick start your European privacy compliance
The CNIL’s Sanctions Committee issues a 150 000 € monetary penalty to GOOGLE Inc. On 3 January 2014, the CNIL’s Sanctions Committee issued a 150 000 € monetary penalty to GOOGLE Inc. upon considering that the privacy policy implemented since 1 March 2012 does not comply with the French Data Protection Act. It ordered the company […]
Insecurity by compliance
If a little compliance creates a false sense of security then a lot of compliance regulation creates an atmosphere of feeling secure, while in fact most businesses and Web services are in fact very insecure. Is a free market democracy doomed to suffer from privacy breaches – by definition? My father is a retired PhD […]
Network surveillance
Most companies have reasonable perimeter security – i.e. a firewall and IDS (intrusion detection system) or IPS (intrusion prevention system). Although security people often view an IPS as the next generation of IDS; it’s important to distinguish between the roles of detection and prevention. Detection helps you understand what kind of attacks are being mounted […]
