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Tag Archives: Google

Eureka! Professor Does FST (Functional Security Testing)

August 30, 2010 – 6:00 am – I have been harping on the need to perform what I call “functional security testing,”  or FST, which is my term for testing systems to ensure that they don’t do functionally that which they are not supposed to do. This is as opposed to the more common “nonfunctional security testing,”…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in General, Risk Analysis | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A-Buzz About Google

March 1, 2010 – 6:00 am – It appears that the official Google position, as expressed by CEO Eric Schmidt, in a December 3, 2009 interview by Maria (NOT Mario, as The Huffington Post stated) Bartiromo on CNBC, is that if you didn’t want the data to be compromised, you “… maybe you shouldn’t be doing it.”…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in Privacy, Security in Popular Culture | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Cloud Computing Security at Newsweek

January 26, 2010 – 6:00 am – Daniel Lyons will publish an op-ed on the insecurity of cloud computing in Newsweek‘s February 1st, 2010 issue. The  main thrust of the article can be summarized as such: But there is one big, glaring problem with cloud computing, and it just got laid bare in Google’s recent problems…
By Kenneth F. Belva | Posted in CSO/CISO Perspectives, Compliance and Laws, Cybercrime, General, InfoSec Economics, Privacy | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Google / China Hack: What you won’t read elsewhere

January 14, 2010 – 6:00 am – Google may leave China after a major hack. That’s the headline.  Yahoo! even joined in denouncing the attack. Google and the mainstream media give the impression that the compromise is the reason Google will leave. It seems unlikely to me: the hack is the straw that may break the…
By Kenneth F. Belva | Posted in CSO/CISO Perspectives, Compliance and Laws, Cybercrime, General, Information Security News | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Will the Real Sam DeKay Stand Up?

July 13, 2009 – 6:00 am – Dr. Sam DeKay sent me an open letter via this very blog medium on June 1, 2009. But how do I know the letter is from the same Sam whom I know and admire, and not from some wily interloper who had hacked into the site and was masquerading as Sam? Well, I was [...] …
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)