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The one-sided UN resolution that didn’t even mention Hamas was not surprising. It’s 14 days into the war on Hamas in Gaza and it appears a good time to share  a few brief facts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – 1. Nationhood and Jerusalem.  Israel  became a nation in 1312 B.C.E. Two thousand years before the …

Pop question No. 1: What percent of your employees send sensitive company documents  to their Gmail accounts? Pop question No. 2: When you layoff 15 percent of your workforce, should you fire the information security manager a) First, b) Last or c) Give her an incentive to help ensure that a data breach of company …

I  think the expression is – “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. I got wind of this data breach event from the IS Alliance. As reported by WFTV Orlando – Social security numbers for 250,000 people were posted online by mistake, and a state agency is facing serious questions about why it …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …