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Experts Scoff at Satellite Shoot-Down Rationale

2008-02-15 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale "comedic gold
 
Tags: space security experts, toxic gas cloud, spy satellite, comedic gold, rationale, pentagon, threat
 
 
 
 
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Keeping up with global regulations

2007-12-28 14:03:48 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...rationale for the US to accept some level of bribery for the sake of broader national interests The interesting issue here is not the level of enforcement, but the inability of companies to keep track of legislation applying to them. This article quotes a KPMG spokesperson referring to a study that found that nearly half of respondent...
 
Tags: companies continue, bribery, anti-bribery rules, operations, compliance platforms, companies, expand operations overseas, compliance management platforms, forrester
 
 
 
 
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RBAC Standard Rationale: Comments on "A Critique of the ANSI Standard on Role-Based Access Control"

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
As the authors of the original proposal for the role-based access control (RBAC) standard and developers of the models from which it derives, the authors respond here to Ninghui Li, Ji-Won Byun, and Elisa Bertino's critique, which also appears in this issue. This is an opportune time in the revision cycle to introduce proposals for changes to...
 
Tags: standard, access control, authors respond, authors, revision cycle, critique, rbac, introduce proposals, ji-won byun
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...rationale of why this was accepted in the first place. This highlights the importance of documentation such as business risk acceptance form; this will help to cover your rear during security incidents. Make sure to get a business risk acceptance form signed by the business owner. An example is a business owner signs a business risk...
 
Tags: incident, security incident, incident playbook, incident management plan, earthquake incident, sound incident, security incidents, nasty security incidents, plan
 
 
 
 
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Ping Identity acquires Sxip Identity

2008-03-11 12:31:57 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...rationale of the acquisition is to allow Ping Identity's products to meet enterprise-wide, typically SSO challenges. This is important to be able to further extend Ping's market share with software-as-a-service providers. Is it a breakthrough? Hardly. Questions still remain as to how major enterprises can integrate Ping Identity's new...
 
Tags: identity, sxip identity, identity management, iam, iam arena, vendors, role vendors, forge strategic partnerships, iam suite
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Events

2008-03-30 17:20:05 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...rationale behind this answer is based on the fact that weakness (a.k.a. vulnerability) is a relative term. Logically, a relative term requires at least two components one relative to another. Oh, its true that the flawed condition within the operating system existed all along, but in order for that condition to actually BE vulnerable, the...
 
Tags: vulnerability, relative term, term, loss events occur, loss events, vulnerability events matter, loss, actual loss, relative term requires
 
 
 
 
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Some Comments on the EPTS Member Agreement

2008-04-07 04:31:21 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...rationale for this is that the EPTS Steering Committee is not a governing body like the US Congress where changes in public sentiment can impact national security. It is much better to have the entire Steering Committee up for relection every two years I have quite a few other concerns the with EPTS Member Agreement. Basically, the agreement...
 
Tags: epts, epts membership agreement, agreement, epts membership, epts community, agreement specifies, committee, current committee, comments
 
 
 
 
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Critical thinking

2008-04-21 14:42:28 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...rationale within a complex open-ended environment. Sometimes a specific best practice or standard will be the most cost-effective solution for a given circumstance; sometimes it wont. The important thing is being able to recognize the difference. Thats where critical thinking comes in, and thats where we provide real value as professionals An...
 
Tags: single correct answer, critical, correct answer, solution, single, cost-effective solution, standards, yellow traffic signal, account
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 2

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2008-05-20 16:22:24 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...rationale is that lines and colors tend to bias interpretation of the results. In other words, if someone sees a risk point plotted in a red background or in the High section of the chart, they equate those results as unacceptable. The fact is, the acceptability of a risk condition is often dependent on the value proposition of the situation,...
 
Tags: risk, managements risk tolerance, enterprise risk tolerance, risk tolerance, likelihood, risk analysis, likelihood connotes, lines, likelihood statement refer
 
 
 
 
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Internet Protocol Version 6

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...rationale for the US government's edict, along with the technical features that distinguish IPv6 from its predecessor, IPv4
 
Tags: distinguish ipv6, ipv6, world wide web, technical features, task force, government, internet, ipv4, not-so-distant future