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I am on an email distribution list from the Israeli Export Institute for Israeli software and security companies. The Export Institute is organizing an event for Protecting Critical Infrastructure – the event is slated to take place Brandenburg, in Berlin-Schönefeld, 18 – 20 May 2009. I liked the use of standard security market-speak to describe the opportunity …

People often ask me to help them find jobs.Often, the answer is that it’s time to go out on your own, start a new career in a non-technology field, doing something you love and do well. But sometimes, I suggest improving interview skills in order to improve the chances of getting hired. After having given …

A year ago, I worked with Joel Isaacson  on a VOD / IPTV project  - and I’m still pretty interested in whats happening in digital media – especially since we got to say “I told you so”. (we predicted the death of Blu-Ray and the rise of video download two years ago). This note is from …

My friend David Etue, who is VP Product Management over at Fidelis Security Systems has been writing a work in progress over the past couple years called A buyer’s guide to network DLP As David writes – Network data leakage prevention (network DLP) is the process of stopping the unauthorized disclosure of digital assets out …

Fear is a good deterrent for individuals – but, will it work for large corporations?  I don’t know, but for sure the UK FSA believes in fear. Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief executive Hector Sants pledged in a confrontational speech last week that the UK regulator would be far more “intrusive and direct” in its …

Hot humint straight in from the field of data security. I don’t have Symantec’s marketing budget and head count or  Gartner reports telling me  that enterprise concerns about high impact data loss events are up.  By my clients, data security awareness is up, but budgets are down and out. I think that vendors with strong …

Facebook management are correct in their policy of not vetting applications and letting the wisdom of crowds become the security of crowds. The best security countermeasure is a lot of eyeballs and 3 people tackling a terrorist in an airplane is the cheapest and most effective anti-terrorism measure. Fifteen years ago when I worked at …

One of my pet peeves with security vendors like Symantec, Vontu, Websense and Checkpoint is marketing collateral that totally disregards the basics of security – it’s like they hired an English major straight out of school and told them to start writing. Sensitive assets, confidential assets, proprietary assets – you can make a total mishmash …

I have been an Orange mobile subscriber for over 10 years – since they launched and I’m generally very happy with the operation of the network but it’s clear that if they managed their mobile network with the same incompetence that they manage their online services – Partner would have gone bankrupt years agao. Orange …

A major data loss event like Hannaford Supermarkets (4M credit card records leaked…) is a black swan as described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – it has three characteristics: Appears as a complete surprise to the company Has a major impact to the point of maiming or destroying the institution (note the case of Card Systems …