Security Best Practices

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• Federal Statutes Aid Trade Secret Prosecution

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil The protection of trade secrets through litigation has generally been limited to civil lawsuits, typically filed under state law statutory or common law provisions. This is true even though federal and state statutes have provided criminal penalties ...
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• Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Cara Garretson , Veteran Business and Technology Journalist Security giant Symantec ( SYMC ) announced second fiscal quarter results that were down 3 percent compared to the same period a year ago, but up slightly from the last quarter of this year, offering some evidence that IT spending is on the ...
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• Iphone Dock Fires and Other Holiday Hazards

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor As we all approach the inevitable chaos of the holidays with shopping, company parties, and client gift lists - all on top of Q4 and 2009 reports and wrap ups - please take care care to protect yourself and your family from possible tragedy ...
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• Navy CIO Sees Future in Cloud Computing

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Kevin L. Jackson , Vice President at Dataline During this week’s Federal Executive Forum taping, Navy CIO Robert Carey discussed his views on cloud computing. Stating that the NGEN and CANES (Navy Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) programs will both leverage cloud computing, he ...
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• Social Media Scams Plague Networks

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it relates to identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, and the opportunity social media creates for criminals to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false ...
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• Two Vulnerability Scanning Tools Evaluated

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP We have mentioned our favorite vulnerability scanning tools before . But a lot of time has passed since, so it is time to put these tools against each other and evaluate the quality of the results received when scanning the same target. The Test Environment ...
  6 days ago

• Everyday Life and the Expectation of Privacy

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified Bob Blakley from The Burton Group recently posted a great response to Andrea DiMaio of Gartner Group regarding privacy. There are lots of great viewpoints expressed in Bob’s blog and comments, but I’d like to raise a perspective on privacy that is ...
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• Top Ten Email Related Disasters of 2009

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  BY Mel Duvall , Chief Content Officer at CIOZone Forget about vampires, ghouls and zombies. You were much more likely to receive a fright this year from something lurking in your e-mail. Just in time for Halloween, security software vendor Proofpoint has come up with a list of the Top 10 Terrifying E-mail ...
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• Report: Data Breaches Hike Fraud Risk 400%

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Because data breaches have become such commonplace incidents, there is concern that people have become desensitized to the potential harm they face upon receiving a notification letter from an organization informing them that sensitive information has been ...
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• Internet Security Alliance November Events

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  From The Internet Security Alliance November 2009 Calendar of Events All times listed EASTERN Monday, November 2 at 5:00pm: IT Sector Coordinating Council Executive Committee Conference Call . The Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council was established on January 27, ...
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• Sun Tzu and the Tao of the Organization

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Steven Fox , Founder of SecureLexicon The military is a great matter of the state. It is the ground of death and life, The Tao of survival or extinction. One cannot but examine it. - Sun Tzu When Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War , he was concerned with the organization and disposition of military units. In ...
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• DoD, DHS & FBI Talk Identity Management

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Kevin L. Jackson , Vice President at Dataline During this week’s Federal Executive Forum , key decision makers from DoD, DHS and FBI highlighted identity management interoperability as their key priority for 2010. Panelists included: Robert Mocny, Acting Director, US-VISIT Program Department of ...
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• ScareWare Infects Tens of Millions Yearly

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst For some time, cyber-criminals have been writing and distributing scareware as part of their arsenal in the battle to take control of our computers. Put simply, scareware programs are designed to frighten people into running malicious software by popping up when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sidekick Goof Shows Cloud Computing Risks

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil In a prior post , I wrote regarding both the promise of cloud computing, or software as a service, and the very real potential legal issues and conundrums faced by businesses considering moving some or all of their IT services and data to the ...
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• Protecting Your Privacy After You Die

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Some time ago, I read a news report about a family who wanted to obtain the email messages of their son who had been killed in Iraq. Wow.  I hadn’t thought about all my electronic virtual possessions, such as emails and files. ...
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• Major Security Hole in Time Warner Routers

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Cara Garretson , Veteran Business and Technology Journalist Customers of Time Warner Cable’s Internet service using the company-supplied cable modem/wireless router box could easily have their home networks infiltrated and taken over by hackers, a blogger reports. The security hole was found by ...
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• Implementing RBAC: Couches or Concrete

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 443
  Bought any furniture lately? read more
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• Implementing RBAC: Perceptions of the People

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 443
  How many of your RBAC projects are funded, staffed and run by your company’s IT organization? How about by the Information Security group? read more
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• The High Cost of HIPAA Privacy Violations

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Back in February 2009 I noted that CVS Caremark Corp. had agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a federal investigation into allegations that it violated HIPAA privacy regulations when pharmacy employees threw items such as pill bottles ...
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• Internal Clouds Are More Than Just VMware

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Dwayne Melancon , Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development I was just reading a NetworkWorld article called Internal Clouds are More Than Just Virtualization and it’s got some pretty good data (and perspective) about how companies view internal clouds. One interesting (but not so surprising) ...
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