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Davidson Companies illegal network intrusion exposes clients

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2008-02-01 14:51:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...assets are fine Evan] Not really, I think of a Social Security number is an asset, an information asset. Just as important as protecting financial or physical assets is protecting information assets The computer hacker accessed information on 226,000 current and former clients, Burchard said With the investigation ongoing, it would be...
 
Tags: davidson, clients, davidson companies president, davidson companies clients, sensitive personal information, davidson login page, personal information, davidson companies, davidson trust
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Events

2008-03-30 17:20:05 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...asset is newly exposed to threat elements, either because the threat elements are new to its landscape or it enters a threat landscape it didnt exist in before (more on this in a second Regardless of the cause, whenever available force becomes greater than the ability to resist, you have what can be referred to as a vulnerability event i.e.,...
 
Tags: vulnerability, relative term, term, loss events occur, loss events, vulnerability events matter, loss, actual loss, relative term requires
 
 
 
 
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Building a Security Architecture Blueprint

2008-05-16 09:26:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...asset (in many cases it *is* the business), yet the typical enterprise approach to securing the information or even risk management, is rarely strategic. Last year, I wrote a Security Architecture Blueprint paper to describe one framework for putting a strategic context around information security program. The main idea is that instead of...
 
Tags: security architecture, security architecture blueprint, security, security architecture capabilities, blueprint, information security program, information, post, grc post
 
 
 
 
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In Security & Compliance, it's all about the 'I'

2008-07-25 00:00:00 by John McDonald in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...asset that is important to our organization, and that asset is almost always information. This basic truth can be most effectively illustrated by considering what drives the daily requirements of our work - compliance
 
Tags: security, information security, information, seemingly trivial aspect, security trade, job description, basic truth, primary driver, asset
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Market

2008-08-25 13:18:59 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Asset Value 39.5 billion 98 billion Security Investment 900 Million 150 Million Security Investment as a percentage of asset value 2.28 0.15 This table greatly disturbs me. From a prioritization standpoint The People's Republic of Information Security is misaligned by orders of magnitude. Next time you read about a data breach, or see an...
 
Tags: software, software security market, software security sectors, space, tools space, compare software security, software security sherpas, software security space, software security
 
 
 
 
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Asset-Liability Management best practice from banks and insurance companies and applies them in managing government debt. This makes sense since the biggest financial portfolio in a country is the government's finances anyway Governments should focus on ALM issues like liquidity and interest rate risk management . It should analyze the...
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Value?

2006-07-28 08:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...asset or liability. Does this make sense Tags: finance derivatives options valuation
 
Tags: option, negative option, option seller, option writer sells, option buyer, option position, negative, position, writer
 
 
 
 
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Basel II could be risky for the economy, the Bank of England warns

2008-01-02 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Its reliance on credit-rating agencies to establish asset risk could put banks on a cyclical roller coaster
 
Tags: cyclical roller coaster, establish asset risk, banks, reliance, agencies
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...asset? Risk as probability of loss? Arrrghh! - It goes on and on and on. No standard accepted definition of risk management in the field of infosec will emerge Status Check IV : This is also a wimpy prediction, since it is so obviously true. The concept of risk is still a mystery to many in security (e.g see this survey ) and it will likely...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...asset enumeration. Lets say youre threat modeling the GDI graphics library. What are the assets that GDI owns? A security expert might be able to answer the question, but anyone else will come to a screeching halt, and be unable to judge if they can skip this step and come back to it. (Ill come back to the effects of this in a later post I...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process