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The role of a supervisor in protecting company data. There is a feeling of entitlement in the Western world that enables employees to use company resources for private purposes.  If can use a pencil, you can use a phone, if you can use a phone, you can use your PC to surf the Net on …

This seems to be my weekend for  product counterfeiting.   I was in Tel Aviv last week on Dizengoff and picked up a couple of paperbacks at the “Book Junkie” bookstore for 5 sheqels/book (that’s about $1.25!) – one of them was Michael Crichtons’ novel Airframe (The book is genuine… and they have an amazing collection …

When I was a solid state physics grad student at Bar Ilan, I had two advisors – Prof. Nathan Aviezer and Prof. Moshe Kaveh (who is now the President of the university).     Aviezer was fond of saying that he only does simple things. I was calculating electrical conductivity of aluminum at low temperatures and due …

Polish digital TV broadcaster N (owned by ITI Neovision) has disclosed a breach of customer data records – after PII was discovered accidentally on the Net by a subscriber via a search engine. The partner who manages our offices in Warsaw (the team specializes in high end data security consulting and DLP projects in Central …

I think it’s only a matter of time before someone exploits a wireless mesh network that controls and reads home utility meters to get free water and electricity. Until then, there is a problem of range and coverage. Greentech media reports that Trilliant ( a smart meter neighborhood networking startup) has bought SkyPilot for it’s …

A few months ago I wrote about The Black Swan of Security – how major data loss events have 3 common characteristics – 1) A major data loss event appears as a complete surprise to the company . 2) Data loss has a major impact to the point of maiming or destroying the institution (note …

Are you like the rest of the lemmings? Most companies we know – don’t have the faintest idea of what’s going on inside the corporate network.   Once the company management discovers that almost all their employees cc company documents to their gmail accounts so they can access the data at home – it becomes …

The buzzword du-jour in the current economic crash of 2008 is “Cloud Computing”. There are several interesting question around cloud computing – why now, how are people building it, what are people doing with it and what about security. 1) Why now? Back in 2001 after the dot com crash, On-demand / SaaS started picking …