Protecting your data in the cloud
Several factors combine to make data security in the cloud a challenge. Web applications have fundamental vulnerabilities. HTTP is the cloud protocol of choice for everything from file backup in the cloud to Sales force management in the cloud. HTTP and HTML evolved from a protocol for static file delivery to a protocol for 2 […]
How to improve your data security in 3 steps
How to protect your systems, your most sensitive data, avoid malware infections and never have a single minute of downtime due to malware. Run Ubuntu Get your services in the cloud Practice safe computing.
Why the Europeans are not buying DLP
It’s one of those things that European-based information security consultants must ask themselves at times – why isn’t my phone ringing off the hook for DLP solutions if the European Data protection directives are so clear on the requirement to protect privacy? The central guideline is the EU Data Protection Directive – and reading the […]
Why Pentagon cyber strategy is divorced from reality.
From the recent September/October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs – William Lyn U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense writes about defending a new domain. The long, eloquently phrased article, demonstrates that the US has fundamental flaws in it’s strategic thinking about fighting terror: Predicting cyberattacks is also proving difficult, especially since both state and nonstate actors […]
Is your DLP project a failure?
Are we in the same valley of death that held content management applications in the 90s? Where companies spent 6-7 figures on content management from companies like Vignette and over 50% of the projects never got off the ground? Tell me what you think in this Linked In poll – DLP success or failure
Data security in the cloud
It seems that with amorphous and rapidly evolving trend of storing data in cloud providers and social media like Twitter and Facebook, that social media and cloud computing is the next frontier of data security breaches. And – here, we have not even solved the problem of trusted insiders. The letter of the law is […]
Choosing endpoint DLP agents
There is a lot to be said for preventing data loss at the point of use but if you are considering endpoint DLP (data loss prevention), I recommend against buying and deploying an integrated DLP/Anti-virus end-point security agent. This is for 4 reasons: Bloatware/system resource consumption – if you’re concerned with anti-virus system resource usage, […]
Cultural factors in DLP
What is interesting and generally overlooked – is the cultural differences between the US and the rest of the world. The Europeans prefer a more nuanced approach stressing discipline and procedures,The Americans are compliance driven and IT top heavy, I imagine if you look at DLP sales – 98% are in the US, being (right or […]
How can we convince our VP that a network-based DLP makes sense?
My colleague, Michel Godet – sent me a link to an article that Mike Rothman recently wrote. Michel (rightly) thinks that it supports the approach that we have been pushing in Europe for over a year now, to justify data security technology investments by using Value at Risk calculations. Mike’s article – building a business […]
Data security for an SMB – Flying First Class on a budget
A talk I give recently at one of our Thursday online workshops on data security More data security presentations from danny lieberman
