Loss of large numbers of credit cards is no longer news – DLP (data loss prevention) technologies are an excellent way of obtaining real time monitoring capability without changing your network and enterprise applications systems. Typically when companies are considering a DLP (data loss prevention ) solution – they start by looking at the offerings […]
Data security is not one-size fits all. For example, if the threat scenario is an attack on your customer self-service Web application – obfuscating or encrypting fields in database tables is not an effective security countermeasure; you need a network DLP solution to prevent leaks of clear text data and a software security assessment that […]
Last week, I got an email from the Internet Security Alliance (a trade association of companies like Raytheon and Northrup-Grumman that lobbies the government on cyber-security issues) with Melissa Hathaway’s speech to the RSA Security conference. Besides all the touch-feely stuff – I didn’t understand anything she is saying (and I’m a native English speaker..). […]
Would you buy a security product from a vendor who couldn’t write English properly, didn’t understand fundamentals of data security and pushed the envelope on claims for product functionality? A prospect recently told us that he was using Lumension end point security software – we’re trying to upsell him to a data security solution that […]
It’s during the war on Hamas in Gaza and I got on a thread on a blog about why Islam is so violent. I explained that there are fundamental ideological differences between Islam and Judaism. For starters – Islam values land but not human life, Jews value human life and are willing to compromise on […]
Imagine Harrison Ford doing traffic analysis on your network. Hmm – there’s a thought. The US-based company – Netwitness has been making a lot of noise lately about their “next generation” capability to perform full session reassembly and threat analysis from packet capture. This is a great feature to have for traffic analysis that has […]
Kudos to ANSI for publishing a free guide to calculating cyber risk. Better late than never – thousands of security professionals in the world use the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool and the popular free threat modeling software PTA, to calculate risk in financial terms – not to mention the thousands of other users of risk […]
This political cartoon was posted exactly 2 years ago in the Jerusalem Post. The world financial markets are on fire and Zipi Livni is busy logrolling and playing spin the bottle with Shas and the Labor Party (who are trying to disguise their own version of corruption as a social conscience). Omer Zak has written […]
There is an automated self-service fingerprint id system for passport control at Ben Gurion Airport. I was one of the early adopters and stopped after a year of frustrating attempts to get it to recognize my fingers. They were charging 50 sheqels/year for the service – the last thing an Israeli wants is to be […]
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