PKI is notoriously expensive. The US government alone has spent over $1 billion on the technology and doesn't really seem to have much to show for their investment. But there are actually even bigger costs from PKI. Remember the dot-com era? Baltimore Technologies, a PKI vendor who actually had a fairly good product, at least relative to other PKI offerings, once had a market capitalization of roughly $13 billion. Their revenue never justified this valuation, of course. It actually never even came close. Instead, this was just based on the assumption that PKI was going to be an important enabler...
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With the recent implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, effective plant security measures are a high priority, now more than ever. Don Hsieh, director of commercial and indu...
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A friend of mine recently complained in Twitter that, according to his count, nearly 80% of all talks given at the security conferences he’d looked at recently were now non-technical. It might be in part because he’s @ramblinpeck on twitter, aka Daniel Peck, Research Scientist or something like that at Barracuda Networks. Which is my [...]
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Oracle has shipped a critical update that fixes at least 14 security vulnerabilities in its Java JRE software. The company is urging users to deploy the fixes as quickly as possible.
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Did you ever notice how some markets go through never ending cycles of naming, re-naming and re-re-naming themselves? It feels like déjà vu all over again in the Database Security space as we see a whole new set of acronyms being rolled out to cover the same technology from the same group of vendors as we’ve named several times before. From Gartner, we are hearing DAM is dead, long live DAP. Almost simultaneously, Securosis launched DSP, abandoning DAM, and DAMP....
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For years, going back over a decade, as I worked in and managed IT and security teams in SMBs to a Fortune 10, sales people have been selling FUD. In case you're not familiar with the term, FUD refers to "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt" and is a sales tactic...
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Just got a copy of The CERT Guide to Insider Threats: How to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Information Technology Crimes (Theft, Sabotage, Fraud) by Dawn Cappelli, Andrew Moore and Randall Trzeciak.Every book I have read by CERT staff has always been...
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