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Beyond the firewall – data loss prevention What a simple idea. It doesn’t matter how they break into your network or servers – if attackers can’t take out your data, then you’ve mitigated the threat. Data loss prevention is a category of information security products that has matured from Web / email content filtering products …

Do you run an e-commerce site? Are you sure you do not store any payment card data or PII (personally identifiable information) in some MySQL database? The first step in protecting credit card and customer data is to know what sensitive data you really store, classify what you have  and set up the appropriate security …

The first government knee-jerk reaction in the face of a data breach is to create more government privacy compliance regulation.  This is analogous to shooting yourself in the foot while you hold the loaded weapon in one hand and apply band-aids with the other. Democracies like Israel, the US and the UK have “a tendency …

IT is about executing predictable business processes. Security is about reducing the impact of unpredictable attacks to a your organization. IT and security adopt a common goal and a common language – a language  of customer-centric threat modelling Typically, when a company ( business unit, department or manager) needs a line of business software application, IT …

We provide software security, threat modeling and threat mediation in the medical device and healthcare space working with technology developers in Israel. How does this work? We evaluate your healthcare software system or medical device from an attacker point of view, then from the management team point of view, and then recommend specific detailed action steps …

In my previous post – “The Israeli credit card breach”  I noted that there are  5 fundamental reasons why credit cards are stolen in Israel. None have to do with terror; 4 reasons are cultural and the 5th is everyone’s problem: “confusing compliance with security. After reading the excellent article  by Sarah Leibowitz-Dar in the Maariv …

Historical data in  log files  has little intrinsic value in the here-and-now process of event response and mediation and compliance check lists have little direct value in protecting customers. Software Associates specializes in helping medical device and healthcare vendors achieve HIPAA compliance and improve the data and software security of their products in hospital and …

Are organizations with higher exposure to online porn and gambling more likely to have a higher incidence of data breach incidents? On the heels of recent Israeli credit card breach incidents, the reports of suspected fraud and money laundering at ICC CAL are bad timing at the very least for Israeli security and compliance. Last …

There are 5 reasons why credit cards are stolen in Israel. None have to do with terror; 4 reasons are cultural and the 5th is everyone’s problem: “confusing compliance with security“. I  could write a book on mismanagement of data governance and compliance, data security, web server security, web application software security. In 2003, I …

Software Associates specializes in helping medical device vendors achieve HIPAA compliance and improve the data and software security of their products in hospital and mobile environments. There are 6 key business requirements for medical device security: Prevent data leakage of ePHI (electronic protected health information) via the device itself, the management system and or the …