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Tag Archives: spotlight
Eureka! Professor Does FST (Functional Security Testing)
August 30, 2010 – 6:00 am
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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,”…
Simplicity or Complexity – Which is More Secure?
August 16, 2010 – 6:00 am
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On May 19, 2010, Dr. Patricia Muoio of the ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) gave a thought-provoking presentation at a symposium hosted by NITRD (Networking and Information Research and Development), which is the name of a program that “… provides a framework in which…
Data Leak! Data Leak! … Copy
August 9, 2010 – 6:00 am
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There was an interesting May 18, 2010 article by the CBS Interactive staff with the title “Photocopier fallout: Congress, FTC ‘concerned’” available at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20005277-83.html?tag=mncol;title The article describes how electronic versions of all documents copied…
Learned Lessons Are Not the Whole Picture
August 2, 2010 – 6:00 am
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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…
Cyber – The 13th Event?
July 26, 2010 – 6:00 am
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The featured topic on the cover of the June 2010 issue of Scientific American has the title “12 Events That Will Change Everything – And Not in the Way You Think.” The events, and the likelihood of them happening (according to the authors of the pieces on each event), are as follows, with…