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Safe Keeping: Article on TrueCrypt in Information Security

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2008-12-01 14:59:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...alternative for your organization This article also includes a sidebar on Adeona , an open source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service I humbly suggest that you consider using both should you lack commercial solutions Cheers del.icio.us | digg | Submit to Slashdot
 
Tags: article, truecrypt, lack commercial solutions, information security magazine, central service, safe, source system, laptop, adeona
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Air Traffic Control

2008-09-08 13:27:26 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...alternative airports, and more. In our reference model, we refer to this, generally speaking, as impact assessment because we must take an estimated detected complex event, for example aircraft collision, and estimate potential damage based on numerous factors such as, the amount of jet fuel in the aircrafts andthe location of the aircrafts...
 
Tags: model, crude laymansatc model, state-model, simple atc model, complex, isconsiderable complex event, overly simplistic model, complex event, simple model
 
 
 
 
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Vote but Verify

2007-09-07 19:56:11 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...alternative The approach to software-independence used in op scan is based on voter-verified paper records, but some all-electronic paperless approaches have been proposed. It is a research topic currently as to whether software independence may be able to be accomplished via systems that would produce an all-electronic voter-verified,...
 
Tags: all-electronic systems, systems, all-electronic, paper audit trail, all-electronic paperless approaches, security geek consensus, research topic, consensus, nist
 
 
 
 
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The Inevitable iPhone 3G Post

2008-06-11 12:37:46 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...alternative, but it's clearly not intended as a superior alternative
 
Tags: iphone, wi-fi hotspot, wi-fi, device, mobile device, wi-fi requires, non-compromise device, computer, full-blown computer
 
 
 
 
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16-Year Old Indian Hacker Says College Useless

2008-06-17 11:10:42 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...alternative for making money Coming from a modest background, the boy wanted to live lavishly with a fine haircut and brand-name clothes, and he found he could achieve that by committing fraud from names and credit card information purchased on international hacking forums His knowledge of the codes and payment gateways is as good as that of...
 
Tags: college, online payment scam, useless alternative, scam, credit card information, ebay, live lavishly, 16-year, fine haircut
 
 
 
 
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FISMA Report Card News, Formulas, and 3 Myths

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2008-05-27 16:36:28 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...alternative framework: Dancho points out this framework in his post which is really an auditors plugin to the existing NIST Framework for FISMA. Thing is, nobody has a viable alternative framework because its still going to be the same people with the same training executing in the same environment Urban Cell-Phone Fire Myth photo by...
 
Tags: report card, fisma report card, fisma, fisma measures, fisma compliance title, fisma report cards, security, security programs based, framework
 
 
 
 
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FISMA Report Cards IssuedResponse is Rote by Now

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2008-05-21 15:36:29 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...alternative: even if you had an alternative plan, the environment for execution still involves the same IT assets and the same front-line employees People who dont understand enterprise-wide security much less a federation of semi-independent enterprises: its the nature of government-wide security metrics that theyll be indicators which can...
 
Tags: report, fisma, fisma report card, security, measure security, enterprise-wide security, report card, security stuff, security lgopps
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...alternatives, like free elections Historically, none of these solutions has worked with any regularity. Max Abrahms, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has studied dozens of terrorist groups from all over the world. He argues that the model is wrong. In a paper (.pdf) published...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...alternatives, like free elections Historically, none of these solutions has worked with any regularity. Max Abrahms, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has studied dozens of terrorist groups from all over the world. He argues that the model is wrong. In a paper published this year...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Do you trust the merchants to protect your credit cards?

2007-12-11 09:01:26 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...alternative to security. Merchants do many other things in their everyday business that puts cardholder data at risk; i.e., transferring card numbers on invoices, writing purchase orders, copying credit card numbers on slips of paper, etc. Merchants will continue to come across sensitive data and will continue to do things that will put the...
 
Tags: card industry, card, payment card industry, credit card, merchants, credit card companies, provide merchants, merchants change, security