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I saw a post recently on Controlled social networking for student collaboration. One of the comments lamented not having the head count to install technology to control Facebook access by students. Frankly – as a data security and compliance consultant who does a lot of work with corporates in social networking (both on the application side …

There is a school of thought that says that you can take any complex problem and break it down like swiss cheese. Risk assessment data collection and analysis with Excel is one of those problems that can’t be swiss-cheesed.  A collection of brittle, unwieldy, two dimensional worksheets is a really bad way of doing multi-dimensional …

If you deploy or are considering data security technology from Websense, Fidelis, Verdasys , Guardium, Imperva or Sentrigo – do you give a DAM ? It seems that DLP (data loss prevention)  vendors are moving up the food chain into DAM (database activity monitoring)? As customers deploy two products in parallel (for example Imperva and …

Dr. David Gurevich in an interview with the Israeli business daily Globes predicts that real time death will be the next development in reality programming.  Once the domain of science fiction and fantasy – Dr. Gurevich believes that the online death scenario is an inevitable development in the loss of privacy and wave of voyeurism …

The  key vulnerabilities of a business  to fraud and data loss are rooted in the  four sins of hubris: thinking, looking, fighting and denying. Hubris is defined as excessive pride or self-confidence, starting with the thought that fraud and data theft won’t happen to you.  Most firms look in the wrong direction, by focussing on external …

“What me worry – I’ve got a regulatory check list and an enterprise risk management system to manage the process”. I want to talk about under-thinking the risk analysis and over-spending on the solution. I believe that there is a fundamental flaw in  enterprise risk management systems –  they don’t really tell the organization something …