February 9, 2012 - So you browse your favorite restaurant review site and settle on a great Mediterranean restaurant, and “magically” a variety of preferences get fed back to your Facebook profile, to be shared, re-shared and re-shared, ricocheting around the internet to form (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - People can sometimes feel overwhelmed when they think about deploying data loss prevention (DLP) at their organization. Some common concerns I hear from prospects are: First I want to classify my data. How can I do that? DLP has many components. Where (continue reading...) Read more
February 6, 2012 - There is no question we have entered the era of always connected mobile devices. Smart phones, iPads, and Android devices have changed the way people access information. Last month, I discussed why denying the use (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - As legislators grapple with increasingly vocal smartphone owners concerned with privacy, a new Bill before the U.S. House of Representatives aims to require mandatory consumer consent prior to allowing the collection or transfer of data on such devices. You may recall (continue reading...) Read more
January 30, 2012 - This is part three in a series of three on data privacy. Read Pat’s first interview here and second interview here. Data privacy is in the spotlight as the January 28 Data Privacy Day approaches. In this (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2012 - Lately, it seems that barely a day goes by when we don’t learn about a major Internet presence taking steps to further erode users’ privacy. The companies with access to our data are tracking us in ways that make Big (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 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 (continue reading...) Read more
January 26, 2012 - Police in the US use XBox 360 and PS3s as key parts of investigations. With police now cooperating more closely with companies like Microsoft, is it time to ask for greater transparency about their relationships? (continue reading...) Read more
January 25, 2012 - Data classification is an important – and very challenging – problem. It is all about tagging your data so that it can be found quickly and efficiently. It is part of the Information Lifecycle Management process and enables organizations (continue reading...) Read more
January 24, 2012 - Awhile back we noted a case where Ramona Fricosu, a woman accused of involvement in a mortgage scam, was asked, following a law enforcement raid in which her laptop was seized, to decrypt data on the device for use (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - In an escalation of the tendency to require companies to be forthright with their users following a breach, a European Union proposed bill intended to overhaul a 17-year old law is making progress. This week EU will outline the overhaul (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - First of all, as we are still in time, let me wish you all a healthy, wealthy and Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice and well deserved break after this bumpy year 2011. On my side, I (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - As increasing sectors of the internet migrate to Facebook as a deployment platform (Zygna, etc.), a new effort aims to spread the preference aggregation features to include things users either own or would like to own. By allowing users to (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - We read that Zappos.com was breached on Sunday, to the tune of 24+ million users’ worth of information. But it seems at first blush they responded well. Of course, a company would hope to never have a breach at (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - National Security Agency’s (NSA) SE Linux team, citing “critical gaps in the security of Android”, is building a Security Enhanced (SE) version of the publicly available source code for the Android project. This is a variant of the SE (continue reading...) Read more
January 16, 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 (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - Current DLP solutions rely on text pattern recognition to detect sensitive data and prevent data loss. But how can that protect images, digital media and other high value assets? If DLP could protect digital media, the 2009 leak of (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2011 - You just got a new wireless router for Christmas, but when you set it up it asks about wireless security. Do you want WEP, WPA, WPA2 or any of the other alphabet soup options they give? While it’s easiest to (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - Recently we noted that unencrypted credit card storage was on the rise in 2011, and also highlighted the expense involved to the company in the event of a credit card breach. Now we see personal data – including (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - We’ve noted recently that many companies store credit card information in an unencrypted form, sometimes several years' worth. So what happens if your systems get hacked before you get around to securing that credit card data? Sure, there’s the (continue reading...) Read more