Industry indicators
Are test equipment sales a bellwether of the telecommunications and technology industry prospects? I have been looking for macro indicators of what will happen in the telecommunications industry. We specialize in data security for telecommunications. Data security is a big issue for companies in flux – firing employees, turning more to outside contractors and merging […]
Spector 360, data loss prevention tool?
Remember the “The Phil Spector Sound”? (I grew up on rock and roll just outside of Philly and when you say Spector, I associate it with Phil Spector or Arlen Spector – my mind is just wired that way…. A business partner of ours in a developing country asked me a security product question today. […]
Bank employee steals 100,000 sheqels
This is a classic case of trusted insider threat – as reported by yesterday’s morning paper – “Israel Today”: ( i assume that this has been under investigation for a while so the actual event may have happened over a year ago…). The arrest sheet in the Tel Aviv district court depicts collusion between an […]
What do hackers want?
What do hackers really want? No question is more important for mounting effective security countermeasures. The management, IT and security practitioners cannot expect to mitigate risk effectively without knowing the objectives and cost of potential attacks on their organization. We all depend on transaction processing to run our business and make decisions, no matter how […]
Risk management – bringing brick and mortar security to IT
I was talking with a prospect yesterday who is an information security manager; extremely professional and creative at what he does. In the course of the conversation, I realized that there are fundamental differences in mentality between IT and Security practitioners. Back when I wrote COBOL/CICS applications for Tadiran Information systems – some of our […]
Seven software development mistakes not to make in 2009
One thing that is burnt into my personal flash memory from 7 years at Intel is working in Plan 2009 in September/October. This time of year, I start thinking about how we can survive and grow the business. We all like to think we learn from mistakes, however, recent experiences reminded me that the software […]
