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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 love New York but I live in Israel. DLP (Data Loss Prevention or extrusion prevention) is an important category of IT security that helps protect data from leaving the network. Keeping the good stuff in, as opposed to keeping the bad guys out. Israel has a booming IT security industry with Checkpoint, Radware, Algosec, …

What do hackers really want? No question is more important for mounting  effective security countermeasures. The management, IT and security practitioners cannot expect to mitigate risk effectively without knowing the objectives and cost of potential attacks on their organization. We all depend on transaction processing to run our business and make decisions, no matter how …

According to research by Gartner: “IT won’t have much of a role in the emerging business-intelligence technology as the tools make it easier for users to build their own analytic applications. To address users’ increasing independence, Gartner suggests that IT departments incorporate the new technologies into the standard BI architecture, communicate which performance measures should …

Safika-controlled Goal Technology Solutions (GTS) and Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, have designs on delivering affordable TV services to SA households. Neither will need a pay-TV licence from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) as the service, which is delivered on demand, is not technically defined as broadcasting. operators could soon face competition from ISPs  …

Any information security professional will tell you that security countermeasures are comprised of people, processes and technology.  The only problem is that good security depends on stable people, processes and technology. A stable organization undergoing rapid and violent change is an oxymoron. People countermeasures are a mix of security awareness training, background checks (at a …

These are dangerous times for a business. Every day brings another threat. The sub-prime crisis, the crash of world financial markets, the price of oil (going way up and now going down again), an impending crash of the US sub-prime credit card market (like how long can you charge 35% over the top interest rates?), …

Are you waiting for the next Gartner Security Report, making plans to evaluate some technology your CEO might not approve after she slashes your funding and maybe your job? As a security professional, you can blame hackers, buggy software and the economy – or you can do something different. “Life is what happens to you …