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Archive for November, 2010

What Security-Conscious Enterprises Can Be Thankful For

What Security-Conscious Enterprises Can Be Thankful For

In 2010 many organizations began to understand the seriousness of the insider threat and how easily perimeter security [...]

Lessons in IT Cost Cutting

Lessons in IT Cost Cutting

At a recent Chief Information Officers (CIO) conference for insurance industry executives, I gave a presentation on [...]

96% of Security Pros Threatened by Employee Web Activity

96% of Security Pros Threatened by Employee Web Activity

A recent article by Matthew Schwartz in InformationWeek highlighted findings from a survey conducted by Trusted [...]

Internet Privacy Is No Place for Government Regulations

Internet Privacy Is No Place for Government Regulations

This week the L.A. Times published an editorial titled “Privacy and the Web” with the opinion that “Washington [...]

Another Security Tax on Microsoft Serves No Purpose

Another Security Tax on Microsoft Serves No Purpose

I was asked recently: “Should Microsoft be trying to solve the weaknesses in its much-used software by providing [...]

Cyber Terrorism May Not Be Our Biggest Enemy

Cyber Terrorism May Not Be Our Biggest Enemy

Continuing the conversation on the threat of Cyber-attacks, Carmi Levy wrote an article for Processor last week talking [...]

Majority of Americans Support Internet Kill Switch

Majority of Americans Support Internet Kill Switch

Last week, Matthew Schwartz of InformationWeek wrote an article, Schwartz On Security: Zombie Internet ‘Kill [...]

Security Expert Michael C. Theis Discusses the Insider Threat

Security Expert Michael C. Theis Discusses the Insider Threat

Michael C. Theis has more than 25 years of experience as a counterintelligence special agent and 30+ years of [...]