Items Tagged with "Data Loss Prevention"
Small Merchant Data Security: Helping Them Help Themselves
May 18, 2012 Added by:Stacey Holleran
Many small merchants—whether selling online or brick-and-mortar, or both—don’t have the technological background to understand the steps necessary for protecting the cardholder information and other sensitive data that passes through (and may be stored in) their business systems...
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Attack Surface: Medical Devices and the Public Health Sector
May 17, 2012
This bulletin highlights how the portability and remote connectivity of medical devices introduce additional risk into Medical IT networks and failure to implement a robust security program will impact the organization’s ability to protect patients and their information...
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BYOD - It's a Personal Matter
May 17, 2012 Added by:Phil Klassen
When you own something, especially a mobile device, there is a sense of entitlement that the individual has. So it's critical that you establish the fact that using a personal device to do company business is a privilege, not a right, and that privilege can be taken away...
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Why Security Through Obscurity Still Does Not Work
May 15, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
I know from my years as a systems analyst and maintaining a large change control system that it is easy for mistakes to occur within the network security architecture, and that there will always be some humans involved who are tempted to bypass important security controls...
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Where is My Information?!?!
May 11, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
Here's the problem - too many people have too much information about you, stored in or on who-knows-what, and who-knows-where. The risks of having your identity stolen and used are astronomical. All it requires is someone on the receiving end putting it all together...
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Logging: Opening Pandora's Box - Part 2 - Elation
May 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Once you get over the anxiety of logging, a wave of elation generally hits. Whether you're getting excited about being able to catch evil-doers in the act, or the capability to notice system failures before they happen logging can save your skin more than you'd think...
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Healthcare Data and the (Private) Social Network
May 10, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Previously, we talked about the roles that trust, security and privacy play in online healthcare interactions. In this post we look at privacy challenges in social networks and describes how you can implement a private healthcare social network for without government regulation...
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Logging: Opening Pandora's Box - Part 1 - Anxiety
May 10, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
You're probably worried that log analysis is going to consume all of your time, or you'll find out that your organization has been pwn3d for years and all your data has been exfiltrated in real-time and your latest database is being copied off to China... aren't you?
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The CERT Guide to Insider Threats
May 07, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
While there are many books on important security topics such as firewalls, encryption, identity management and more, The CERT Guide to Insider Threats is the one of the first to formally tackle the devastating problem of trusted insiders who misappropriate data...
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Healthcare Data: I Trust You to Keep this Private
May 04, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In this article, Danny Lieberman talks about the roles that trust, security and privacy play in online healthcare interactions. At the end of the article, he introduces the idea of private social networking for healthcare – leaving the piece open for a sequel...
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What Good is PCI-DSS?
May 03, 2012 Added by:david barton
Credit card processors have valuable information that bad guys would love to get their hands on. So processors are the Fort Knox of the modern world. When bad guys are motivated, no amount of security can keep them out. Does that mean PCI-DSS standards are worthless?
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Protecting Data in Use
April 26, 2012 Added by:Simon Heron
The security of data in use is about risk mitigation. However, with the current targeted attacks and the proliferation of zero day threats, the risk level is high. It is necessary that action is taken to implement the required precautions that reduce the risk to an acceptable level...
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From Fraud to Infosec and Vice Versa... Part 2
April 24, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
In my previous post I summarized fraud and how it relates to infosec. Key enablers used to defraud victims of all types cut across the landscape and often overlap, posing further challenges for quantifying their impact, but the classifications are nonetheless helpful...
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The Fort Knox Approach to Security
April 23, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
Most of you are protecting everything with equal rigor. Does everything need to be protected with the same thoroughness? Probably not and that is what makes infosec a difficult occupation. We neglect to delineate what needs the most protection and what does not need as much or any...
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From Fraud to Infosec and Vice Versa... Part 1
April 19, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
To all of you infosec professionals out there: one way to show you add value is get closer to your fraud colleagues and try to understand what their big ticket items are. You can even ask them the right questions as the big ticket items are more than likely those detailed here...
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The Security Poverty Line and Junk Food
April 17, 2012 Added by:Wendy Nather
Organizations below the security poverty line tend to be inordinately dependent on third parties and have less direct control over the security of the systems they use. They end up ceding risk decisions to third parties that they ideally should be making themselves...
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Your Own Private Island
December 24, 2011Coming Soon! Build your own Island right here!
Make your home Infosec Island with your own private vanity URL, design options and private network of followers.
Infosec Island v2
December 24, 2011The latest version of Infosec Island is now available. There are more content options and more ways to connect and interact with your peers.
Thanks to everyone for a great year, and we're looking forward to an excellent 2012!