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Learned Lessons Are Not the Whole Picture

August 2, 2010 – 6:00 am – I am certainly a strong proponent of learning from disasters, as asserted in my June 14, 2010 column “Cyber Lessons Learned from the Gulf Oil Catastrophe,” for example.   Consequently I felt somewhat vindicated in that view by an article by William J, Broad on the front page of the Science…
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Our End Users: The Weakest Link

March 12, 2008 – 6:00 am – Hackers and professional criminals are like most people; they want to accomplish their goal in the easiest way possible. As we have become better at implementing technical controls, such as hardening servers, more aggressive patching, and deployment of a vast array of security devices /…
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