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Please Let Me Explain…

February 8, 2010 – 6:00 am – Whenever you speak to a reporter, you are always at risk that what will be published isn’t quite what you meant or that the context of your statement  within the article will distort your meaning. Knowing this, you usually have to choose between the importance of what you have to say (in your…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in CSO/CISO Perspectives, Compliance and Laws, Cybercrime, General | 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)

Protecting Cyberspace … Our Last Opportunity?

January 25, 2010 – 6:00 am – In my column, “The Silent War – Cyber Style,” posted on December 14, 2009, I had suggested that, since it was taking forever for the White House to come up with a Cyber Security Coordinator, that the White House expand CTO Aneesh Chopra’s responsibility to include cyber security. So much…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in General, Information Security News | 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)

Security Testing’s Missing Link and the Revelation of Drone Images

January 11, 2010 – 6:00 am – Why are so many computer and network applications breached? And in seemingly simple ways? A recent featured article appeared at the top of the first page of the December 17, 2009 edition of the Wall Street Journal – that dreaded space from which security professionals are tasked with avoiding…
By C. Warren Axelrod | Posted in Cybercrime, General, Information Security News | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)