Sense of Security written by C. Warren Axelrod
Cyberspace Policy Review … Motivating the Private Sector
June 29, 2009 – 6:00 am
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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…
The Power of the Second Derivative
June 23, 2009 – 6:00 am
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We may recall from our calculus courses that the first derivative is the rate of change and the second derivative is the rate of rate of change, so, for example, if we consider distance traveled, then the first derivative is speed and the second derivative is acceleration or deceleration (if…
Here We Go Again … Demoted Security
June 15, 2009 – 6:00 am
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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…
BSIMM – Top Ten Surprises
May 26, 2009 – 6:00 am
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In a prior column, I described the results of a survey conducted by Gary McGraw, Sammy Migues and Brian Chess published in the BSIMM (Build Security In Maturity Model) report available at http://bsi-mm.com/
Most of the results are intuitively obvious … after the fact, that is. But some…
BSIMM – A Giant Step for Application Security
May 18, 2009 – 6:00 am
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There’s a new acronym in town – BSIMM. It’s not BSIMM the rapper out of Louisville, Kentucky. But it is BSI-MM, which is how it is depicted in the website from which you can download the 50-page report, namely http://bsi-mm.com/
The BSIMM in question stands for “Building…
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