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Your Home & Your Phone: A Privacy Rights Metaphor
For simplicity, I will use the term, “organization” to refer to any party (such as an employer, corporation, state or government entity) during the following discussion. Additionally, I’ll use the...
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Why Remote Wipe is Dumb: Part I
Recently published data indicate that the average businessperson has 3.5 such mobile devices – a laptop, a tablet or netbook and one or two cellular phones. This number has doubled in three years and,...
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Why Remote Wipe is Dumb: Part II
OK. Let’s assume for a minute that remote wipe is on your checklist when you go shopping for a mobile security solution. You are looking for peace of mind when a mobile device gets lost or stolen or...
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Information Security in 2020: Part I
“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” The principles that motivate current approaches to securing information and the systems that store, process, & transmit...
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Information Security in 2020: Part II
In our last post we asked a simple question: Why do data breaches still occur? In order to begin to answer this question, we need to start by looking at the state of the contemporary security scene –...
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Information Security & Steamboat Boiler Explosions
In the U.S., safety & security almost always takes a back seat behind commerce. This historical principle is in evidence in almost any field: numerous (unfortunately) examples of this have been...
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The Enemy: Cyber Criminals, Cyber Warriors, Hackers, & Punks
The Enemy: Cyber Criminals The list of categories of cyber crime is growing, & is, for the most part, advancing in lockstep w/ technology advances. Some of these crimes overlap, but a...
View ArticleA Concise Definition of Four Commonly Misused Security Terms
1. Information Assets (a thing): 1.1. Information assets (IA) may include database records, software code, critical company data, & other intangible items. These intangibles may include...
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