An organisation’s security program protects 2 types of resources. One is secrets that confer long-term competitive advantage and the other is custodial data assets that are protected by regulation. Unfortunately, it is compliance not security that drives the security budgets, but this results in an imbalance because corporate secrets comprise of two-thirds of the value of the firms’ information portfolio...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4008-Why-Corporate-Secrets-Must-be-Protected.html

Net Neutrality in the US and the Digital Economy Act in the UK are attempts by Governments to start to legislate the Internet.Certainly the Digital Economy Act in the UK was written to prevent the piracy of film, music, photography etc. For what it's worth I don't agree with the measures in the Act, which gives the Government power to checktraffic and potentially block sites involved in the breach of copyright...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4012-Internet-Legislation-and-Piracy.html

An organisation’s security program protects 2 types of resources. One is secrets that confer long-term competitive advantage and the other is custodial data assets that are protected by regulation. Unfortunately, it is compliance not security that drives the security budgets, but this results in an imbalance because corporate secrets comprise of two-thirds of the value of the firms’ information portfolio...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4008-Why-Corporate-Secrets-Must-be-Protected.html

“The Social Security numbers of about 30,000 people became vulnerable after malicious software attacked Penn State University computers,” announced the headlines in December 2009. “Other data breaches occurred in January and February and in December 2008. One targeted a single comp...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3983-Education-Sector-is-Failing-Security.html

Refusing to maintain and follow a good termination checklist that walks through what access rights to decommission when someone leaves your company can put the brakes on your customers’ good will. Texas Auto Center in Austin Texas demonstrated the headaches that ensue when in February ...

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Any security professional has his own way in conducting a penetration testing mission but the whole plan and method for performing the pentest should be in accordance with the security standards recommendations and regulations. The first thing is to start with defining a framework for the sev...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4001-Ways-for-Effective-Network-Penetration-Testing.html

After Viagra, guns and fake medicines, now we can purchase contraband cigarettes online. But the police are always on the alert. Here we discuss a recent Italian case. The Italian Guardia di Finanza (Finance Police) recently completed a longstanding investigation of a criminal organization sp...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4000-What-About-Web-Smuggling.html

There seems to be a groundswell of people who are anti-Facebook today. Google “Facebook” and “Privacy” and 761,000,000, that’s seven hundred and sixty-one million results come up in a quarter second. WHY? BECAUSE THERE IS AN OBVIOUS ISSUE WITH FACEBOOK AND PRIVACY. The ...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3991--Want-Privacy-On-Facebook-Shut-Up.html