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Is it possible to have good kharma in information security – when you’re trying to keep the bad guys off your network (firewall, IPS) and keep the good suff inside (data loss prevention) and maintain good internal security (network surveillance)? I got a Powerpoint slide show in the email this morning from my friend Jeff …

Big time data theft event, this time by an employee leaving Intel to go to work for AMD. A Worcester, Mass. man has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth more than $1 billion. Biswamohan Pani, 33, was indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Intel’s Hudson, Mass. facility and downloading confidential documents from Intel …

Are test equipment sales  a bellwether of the telecommunications and technology industry prospects? I have been looking for macro indicators of what will happen in the telecommunications industry. We specialize in  data  security for telecommunications. Data security is a big issue for companies in flux – firing employees, turning more to outside contractors and merging …

Imagine Harrison Ford doing traffic analysis on your network. Hmm – there’s a thought. The US-based company – Netwitness has been making a lot of noise lately about their “next generation” capability to perform full session reassembly and threat analysis from packet capture. This is a great feature to have for traffic analysis that has …

We saw the movie “Blood Diamonds” last night;  the way some companies practice IT risk management reminds me of TIA – “This is Africa”.  Joseph Granneman talks about some of the problems with conventional IT risk assessment on Searchsecurity.com Risk assessment, as currently practiced in information security, is dead. I’m not saying we need to …

Remember the “The  Phil Spector Sound”? (I grew up on rock and roll just outside of Philly and when you say Spector, I associate it with  Phil Spector or Arlen Spector – my mind is just wired that way…. A business partner of ours in a developing country asked me a security product question today. …

The VCs all around are saying we’re headed into a nuclear winter. What kind of risk are you creating when you fire the IT security officer? When a company decides to fire a big piece of it’s work force – it’s to reduce costs in anticipation of reduced revenues. Risk management and IT governance runs …

This is a classic case of trusted insider threat  – as reported by yesterday’s morning paper – “Israel Today”: ( i assume that this has been under investigation for a while so the actual event may have happened over a year ago…). The arrest sheet in the Tel Aviv district court depicts collusion between an …

I got this from my sister in-law Judith Bedichi this morning – it was written by Dr. Guy Bechor and describes an escalation of security threats to the Jewish State of Israel.  The Israeli Supreme Court is highly-regarded yet clearly preferential to Israeli Arabs, with liberal rulings allowing operations of radical Islamic groups in the …

I had heard about this EMC startup but didn’t know much about what they really do. My friend Arik Blum from HP takes the time to send interesting technology updates to his own private distribution list. Atmos is  COS “cloud optimised storage”, with web services such as SOAP and REST for access. Cloud Optimized Storage(COS) …