Chances are Someone is Trying to Steal Your Organization’s Information
March 29th, 2012
Chances are someone is trying to steal your organization’s information. Instead of expending all your effort in defensive posture controls, there are ways to actively seek out and disrupt attempts to steal your organization’s information. This is called counter intelligence and the exploits of the good old cold warrior, George Smiley, should be your hero. [...]
Using Data to Secure Data – Observations from the RSA Conference
March 5th, 2012
It seems that each year I attend the RSA Security Conference there is always a set of theme words permeating the conference. Some of the more recent ones: borderless, cloud, mobile, compliance, etc. While I was there, a new one popped up that is interesting: big data. Big Data has been gaining momentum over the past few [...]
Exploring 2012 Data Privacy Threats: Part 2 of 3
January 27th, 2012
This is part two in a series of three on data privacy. Read Pat’s first interview here. Are we desensitized to hack attacks despite the headline-making stories featuring Anonymous last year? What can we expect in 2012 on the data privacy threat front? And where are the weakest links in the enterprise? Veteran technology journalist [...]
Your Data Privacy Day: 1 of 3
January 16th, 2012
How Private Is Your Data, Really? How private is your data? If you are like most people—and even many corporations—you can’t offer a solid answer. Yet one person’s lack of knowledge about data privacy can send a ripple effect through the world as malicious hackers work to steal valuable information from individuals, companies and governments. [...]
A Bright Spot in the Fight Against Cyber Crime
October 17th, 2011
There is no shortage of discussion on today’s global data protection challenges. Our country, the organizations within it and every individual who spends time online is at risk. Tell us something we don’t know, right? Every day we are bombarded with headlines about major data breaches and tragic stories of people losing personal information, but [...]
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Illinois’ New Data Protection Law
August 24th, 2011
News today, courtesy of Brendon Tavelli at Proskauer’s Privacy Law blog via the always excellent Office of Inadequate Security, of a new data breach notification bill just signed by Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois. Interesting to me both personally (Go Illini!!) and professionally, this bill (HB 3025) amends Illinois Public Act 097-0483 (the Personal Information Protection [...]
2011 Malware Trends
March 2nd, 2011
For those that were unable to attend the March 1 podcast on 2011 Malware Trends, here are a few of the key points with additional depth for each. By way of background, the market for stolen Internet information is saturated and things like credit card data and bank account credentials have become a cheap commodity [...]
It’s Time to Act
January 24th, 2011
January 28, 2011 is Data Privacy Day. Analyst Eric Ogren from The Ogren Group sat down with Lumension CEO Pat Clawson to ask some key questions around what this day means for the industry and how it has made an impact since Congress implemented it two years ago. Both Eric and Pat get down to [...]
Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Will Early Technology Adoption Put You at Risk for Identity Theft?
June 10th, 2010
It was reported yesterday that a group of hackers from Goatse Security compromised AT&T’s server through an open vulnerability to steal over 114,000 iPad 3G owners sensitive personal information which included email addresses and SIM card ICC-IDs. The attack didn’t effect the iPads themselves, but rather customer information housed on AT&Ts network. Luckily, no credit [...]
Erosion of Privacy: An Escalating Issue for Facebook
May 13th, 2010
Identity theft is not the only concern associated with the decline in privacy at Facebook. The increased publicly available personal information on Facebook will undoubtedly fuel enterprise spear phishing attacks. Why hack the enterprises’ perimeter security when you can simply trick an insider into opening a file that installs malware? The erosion of privacy at [...]
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