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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brains process risk, which is in two ways. The first is intuitive, emotional and experience based. Not only do we fear more what we can't control, but we also fear more what we can imagine or what we experience. This seems to be an evolutionary survival mechanism. In the presence of uncertainty, fear is a valuable defense. Our brains react...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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I'm an Entertainer

2008-01-21 06:46:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...brains. Deliver a series of short, sharp shocks that jolt your audience into a heightened state of engagement And for those who haven't yet seen it, this is one of the most entertaining and engaging presentations I've ever seen: Dick Hardt's Identity 2.0 introduction
 
Tags: audience, fundamental vision statement, slide, loved jeff, loved, wacky joke, sharp shocks, business, presentations
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon's Mind-Reading Computers Replicate

2008-03-18 22:15:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Pentagon efforts to build computer interfaces that adapt to their users' brains are spreading
 
Tags: computer interfaces, pentagon efforts, users, brains, adapt
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...brains are good at filtering out the noise in the TV video, but there is a lot of it. Part of the noise comes from the atmospheric background RF, but there are also flaws (noise) in the tuners radio and analog-to-digital capture circuitry I think this is a pretty strong RNG, and I have provided an interface for pulling just the values Also, I...
 
Tags: entropy, random, 32-byte random, byte, hardware random, entropy sources, sequence, random sequence, pull entropy
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brains are much better optimized for the security trade-offs endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 B.C. than to those endemic to living in 2008 New York If we make security trade-offs based on the feeling of security rather than the reality, we choose security that makes us feel more secure over...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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Your Suggestions to Transform Security from a Roadblock to a Catalyst for Business Innovation

2008-04-09 00:00:00 by Blog Editor in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...brains of 10 top security executives from global enterprises in a variety of industries and get THEIR suggestions. But we'd like to hear from you
 
Tags: security, top security executives, innovation, security fears, information security concerns, business innovation opportunities, manage information risk, idg research reports, global enterprises
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brains are much better optimized for the security trade-offs endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 B.C. than to those endemic to living in 2008 New York If we make security trade-offs based on the feeling of security rather than the reality, we choose security that makes us feel more secure over...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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Inside Lockheed Martin's wireless security lab

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
The brains at Lockheed Martin's new wireless-security laboratory are in a race to discover the loopholes and faults in wireless security before terrorists and cyber criminals do. Here's their assessment of the biggest threats to both corporate and military wireless networks
 
Tags: wireless security, military wireless networks, martin, cyber criminals, laboratory, assessment, terrorists, discover, faults
 
 
 
 
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Wireless: Using Light APs Across a WAN

2008-05-22 17:45:54 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...brains, and the APs are dumb. For all practical purposes here, the APs are just radio antennas. They know nothing, and every packet is sent back through the controller for processing. Generally a fully light AP will not even have an IP address With a semi-light AP product, the controller does most of the work (usually anything routed or not...
 
Tags: light, semi-light solution, semi-light, wan, solution, local, process local traffic, aps, completely light
 
 
 
 
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Ideal Tool to Solve Real Problems ... of the Near Future?

The Article has images
2008-06-12 19:02:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...brains of security/system analysts Log diversity - logs all look different (at least while standards are being developed ) and no single person have the skill set to understand more than a few types. PIX admin groking SAP logs? No way In light of the above, just pure bad logs are also a major challenge - logs that miss a key piece of info...
 
Tags: log-conclusion process, log, log diversity, log management vendor, logs, appl