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Here We Go Again … Demoted Security
It’s happened again. The security folks present an agenda and it is immediately demoted to a low priority. There’s always some excuse … another higher priority has come on the scene, there is concern that putting resources on security could hamper economic progress, military activities, etc. Time and time again, information security folks have neither [...]
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Cyberspace Policy Review … Motivating the Private Sector
You probably know the expression: “Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.” This is apparently a misquotation of philosopher George Santayana’s opinion that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana published this around 1905-1906. However, the eighteenth-century British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke is credited with perhaps originating [...]
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Video: Hard Drives – Watch Them Shred
(Kenneth F. Belva) While it’s the dream of almost every information security department to send their hard drives off to the shredder to destroy sensitive data, few of us have actually Read more…
Being Evil versus Doing Harm
(C. Warren Axelrod) Mea culpa. …. Craig Heath rightly states that the Google motto is “Don’t be evil” and not “Do no harm,” as I had misquoted in my column Read more…
Google Doing Harm
(C. Warren Axelrod) As we all know, Google’s motto is (was?) “Do no harm” … which, it appears, they took directly from the modern version of the physician’s Read more…
New Massachusetts Regulation Has Significant Implications for Information Security Professionals
(Sam Dekay) This year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a regulation that prescribes information security policies and practices quite unlike those required in any previous state Read more…
Passwords – Déjà Vu All Over Again
(C. Warren Axelrod) With due credit to Yogi Berra, I found myself groaning “not again” when reading Randall Stross’s article “Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Read more…
Security and Audit – BFFLs? Maybe not, but…
(Patrick Foley) …we may have lots of reasons to work together more closely. Maybe it is just the luck of the draw that at almost every employer for the last 15 years, I have been the one Read more…
What is Russell Handorf’s Secret?
(Sam Dekay) Russell Handorf seems to have a secret that has been withheld from the ten other contributors to bloginfosec. Russell himself may know this secret, although it’s quite Read more…
