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Tag Archives: data breaches

Insider Threat – Not Knowing That You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

– In my column “All the Way from RSA,” posted on April 5, 2010, I refer to the article “France Got Stolen HSBC Data” by Deborah Ball and David Gauthier-Villars in the Money and Investing section of The Wall Street Journal published on March 12, 2010. Not only does this appear to be a case…

All the Way from RSA

– Yes, I know, I know … There I was, just one year ago, roundly criticizing the RSA Conference for its pretentiousness, and this year not only did I attend RSA 2010, but also gave a presentation, conducted a book-signing and did a couple of video interviews and a podcast. So what is going on…

Net-Witness of the Persecution

– There is an interesting article in the February 18, 2010 Wall Street Journal by Siobhan Gorman, with the title “Hackers Attack 2,411 Firms: Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data; Operation Is Still Running.” It describes how staff of the security services firm, NetWitness,…

The VerizonBusiness Report – Interesting, But is It Useful?

– Each year, the VerizonBusiness RISK Team issues its “Data Breach Investigations Report.” For the 2009 edition, see … www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/security/reports/2009_databreach_rp.pdf I was fortunate enough to attend the September 2009 Metro New York ISSA Meeting to hear a…

Video: Hard Drives – Watch Them Shred

– 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 witnessed it. Below is a YouTube video that shows the visual process that turns our precious hard drives turn to scrap.…