Imperfect knowledge security
Keeping the organization robust in a highly dynamic threat environment Our capacity to predict will be confined to . . . general characteristics of the events to be expected and not include the capacity for predicting particular individual events. . .Yet the danger of which I want to warn is precisely the belief that in […]
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 […]
BizSpark
I just got an invite to Bizspark from thefunded.com “Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources “; basically free development software and a hook into a community of potential investors. A lot of the comments on techcrunch were of a religious nature, calling […]
Microsoft in close cooperation with new Israeli government
The Israeli online economic daily Calcalist published an item which has drawn the wrath of the Israeli Free Open Source community. However – reading the item carefully – I would say that all of the objectives are fair enough and worthy enough for the largest software vendor in the world to be involved. I would […]
Preventing intellectual property abuse
One of my pet peeves with security vendors like Symantec, Vontu, Websense and Checkpoint is marketing collateral that totally disregards the basics of security – it’s like they hired an English major straight out of school and told them to start writing. Sensitive assets, confidential assets, proprietary assets – you can make a total mishmash […]
Orange Israel customer service sucks
I have been an Orange mobile subscriber for over 10 years – since they launched and I’m generally very happy with the operation of the network but it’s clear that if they managed their mobile network with the same incompetence that they manage their online services – Partner would have gone bankrupt years agao. Orange […]
A strategic inflection point in the security industry
Compliance is like being at all the rehearsals with a sharp pencil and playing your part perfectly – but not showing up to the gig. Being inside a strategic inflection point of change is like waking up during your own murder. Inside a strategic inflection point of change, the people inside the system are not […]
Microsoft browser vulnerabilities and the police
The Polish Police did an IT modernization project in 2008 for installing mobile terminals in police cars. The software in the mobile terminal uses Microsoft IE. Since the mobile terminals use Microsoft IE – it should be possible to attack the mobile terminal using one of the known IE software vulnerabilities
Security Leadership
Gas prices may go down and electricity may get cheaper – but In 2009, most of us will have less money to spend and our clients will be tough on pricing and orders. For information security and compliance professionals it is the time to find, implement and enforce cost-effective security countermeasures. BUT HOW?
Teachers Matter More Than PCs
Just as I was wondering how pumping trillions into banks will solve the GFC (great financial crisis) – along comes Craig Barrett (former CEO of Intel) and tells us that Teachers Matter More Than PCs “We’re bailing out Wall Street, we’ll be bailing out Detroit soon, we’re bailing out the agricultural sector with high subsidies […]
