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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...medium level of security, medium user inconvenience User has a portable device (cell phone) with software that generates OTP Vendors: ActivIdentity, Entrust, CRYPTOcard, PortWise, RSA Security, VASCO Data Security Wallet card (scratchpad, gridcard) (inexpensive, low level of security, medium user inconvenience User has a list of OTP...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Internet Explorer security levels compared

2008-09-17 00:19:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...medium" and "medium-high" security settings. I did some digging, and found only this on MSDN: About URL security zone templates . No wonder it's difficult to find -- the terminology is different, and the table is organized by URL actions, not by the text in the dialog Someone on the IE security team forwarded me a document that had additional...
 
Tags: script behaviors, script, script activex controls, activex controls, net framework, net, zone, content zone, content
 
 
 
 
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Security Consultant Hacks: Size Matters

2007-12-20 05:16:07 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...medium and large sizes. Small shops are less than 30 consultants, medium 31-200, large 201 Small shops: Sometimes known as boutique firms or lifestyle firms (since the people that run them take jobs when they want and only when they want) can be excellent resources within their specialities. Typically these are 1-5 person shops that are...
 
Tags: security consultant, security consultant hacks, security, web application security, security consultants, consultants, grumpy security guy, medium shops, employ
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...medium on which the data is held. [Evan] Security through obscurity doesn't work. This is one of the oldest security fallacies in the book. Don't count on the nature of the medium to provide adequate security We are taking this loss extremely seriously and have done everything possible to locate the data cartridge. We would like to apologise...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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IBM Raises The Stakes In Business and IT Continuity Services

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2008-08-22 15:38:40 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
...medium businesses and it's even useful for enterprises as a means to backup PCs corporate-wide as well as small servers at remote locations. In addition to the $300 million that IBM is spending on its new resiliency centers, late in 2008, it acquired Arsenal Digital Solutions , one of the major players in online backup In addition to online...
 
Tags: services, recovery, recovery services, continuity services, service, ibm, service provider, service offerings, cost
 
 
 
 
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Why Risk Management Doesnt Work (?!)

2008-10-08 17:15:14 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Medium X Low X Low = High sorts of stuff. So lets use this relatively expensive tool as evidence of what your average CISO is armed with going into a Risk/Reward sort of meeting. I imagine a nice board room with wood-grain paneling and glass bowls filled with little chocolate covered mints designed to give everyone involved in the meeting...
 
Tags: risk management, information, information risk management, risk, poor risk management, information security risk, reduce risk, risk analysis, cool report
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 2

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2008-05-20 16:22:24 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...Medium, etc NOTE: Magnitude scales will vary based on the risk capacity/tolerance of the organization These can be useful, but a few challenges Ive encountered with this approach include If the risk point falls barely on one side of the line or the other, do the lines really serve a useful purpose, at least from the perspective of being able...
 
Tags: risk, managements risk tolerance, enterprise risk tolerance, risk tolerance, likelihood, risk analysis, likelihood connotes, lines, likelihood statement refer
 
 
 
 
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Hundreds of Thousands of Laptops Lost at U.S. Airports Annually

2008-07-04 08:20:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey. Close to 10,278 laptops are reported lost every week at 36 of the largest U.S. airports, and 65 percent of those laptops are not...
 
Tags: laptops, recover lost laptops, lost laptops, lost, laptops lost, commonly lost, airports, lost laptop, percent
 
 
 
 
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Keeping corporate secrets - the data centric security approach

2008-07-28 20:13:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...medium" and "Address data at rest, in flight and in use In particular I like this paragraph Even with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and VPN, strong passwords, fire walls and a flood of security patches, the medium (the network and the attached servers) should be considered inherently insecure. The greatest security comes from protecting the...
 
Tags: data, security, address data, gargantuan data breach, security patches, secure, secure sockets layer, data-centric, security technology
 
 
 
 
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A New Way to Back Up Digital Files on paper

2008-09-04 08:28:19 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...medium into the drive (if you have one!) and try to read it Paper is