Brainwashed by propaganda?
I decided to update this post – after the security theater of the week with the Palestinians and Israelis – as if Israel really needs the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish State and as if not building a few houses is going to give the Palestinian leaders a reason to stop terror and […]
Practical information policy
Does this look simple to you? I think it’s time to get back to security basics after reading the news this morning. Yesterday, there was a run of high profile data security events: the Mozilla store data breach, the DDOS attack on Twitter and Web defacing by a Palestinian cyber-terror group on leftist Israeli Kadima […]
Reducing risk of major data loss events
Martin Hellman (of Diffie Hellman) fame maintains the Nuclear Risk web site and has written a very insightful piece on risk analysis of nuclear war entitled Soaring, cryptography and nuclear weapons Hellman proposes that we need a third state scenario (instead current state – > nuclear war) where the risk of nuclear holocaust has been […]
What’s in a name?
Would someone explain the difference between Militants and Terrorist Organizations? Do definitions matter? The PCI DSS 1.2 standard confusingly labels anti-virus “threat management” and security folks often confuse a vulnerability (a state of weakness of an asset) with a threat (something or someone that exploits the vulnerability to cause damage to the asset). I guess […]
