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Why the Europeans are not buying DLP
It’s one of those things that European-based information security consultants must ask themselves at times – why isn’t my phone ringing off the hook for DLP solutions if the European Data protection...
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WikiLeaks Breach – trusted insiders not hackers
With a delay of almost 10 years – SCIAM has published an article on the insider threat – WikiLeaks Breach Highlights Insider Security As one of the pioneers in the DLP space (data loss prevention) and...
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Bank of America and Wikileaks
First reported in the Huffington Post in November 2010, the Bank of America has set up a Wikileaks defense team after an announcement by Julian Assange that Wikileaks has information from a 5GB hard...
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Securing Web services in the cloud
Almost every SaaS (software as a service) is based on REST or XML Web services. In this post, I’d like to provide a brief introduction to some typical threats and security countermeasures to protect...
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Why data security is like sex
We all think about sex – men (most of the time), women (some of time) and teenagers (all the time). Sex – despite the huge volume of content in the digital and print media, is one of those phenomena...
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Wikileaks and data theft
A colleague of mine, Bill Munroe, is VP Marketing at Verdasys, the first of the agent DLP vendors and the most established of the independent pure play DLP technology companies. (No. I do not have a...
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Cyber crime costs over $1 trillion
A pitch from Alex Whitson from SC TV for a Webinar on the LinkedIn Information Security Community piqued my attention with the following teaser: As you may have read recently, Cybercrime is now costing...
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Securing Web servers with SSL
I’ve been recently writing about why Microsoft Windows and the Microsoft monoculture in general is a bad idea for medical device vendors – see my essays on Windows vulnerabilities and medical devices...
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Will security turn into a B2B industry?
Information security is very much product driven and very much network perimeter security driven at that: firewalls, IPS, DLP, anti-virus, database firewalls, application firewalls, security...
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The dangers of default passwords – 37% of Data Breaches Found to be Malicious...
A malicious attack by malware or spear phishing on valuable data assets like PHI (protected health information) exploits known vulnerabilities and one of the most common vulnerabilities in medical...
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Dealing with DLP and privacy
Dealing with DLP and privacy It’s a long hot summer here in the Middle East and with 2/3 of the office out on vacation, you have some time to reflect on data security. Or on the humidity. Or on a...
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