We use easily counterfeited identification, Social Security numbers that are written on the sides of buses and we rely on the anonymity of the phone, fax, internet and snail mail as a means of application. In other countries they solve problems. They have priorities and don’t deal with the rhetoric. They put security first, convenience second...
The mechanical wonders that once used kerosene and chain drive squeegee rollers to mass produce wet-paper copies are long gone. It’s a digital copier these days that falls into a gray area between Classification of Documents and Enterprise Cyber Security. As technology in the copy machine industry has evolved many of these systems now contain large hard drives which retain full and complete images of each and every copy made on the system...
Securing an organization's assets requires work, and there are many different ways to classify controls. This white paper examines three common types of controls are administrative, technical, and physical.
Headlines tell us that Internet-based threats are becoming increasingly malicious, damaging, and sophisticated. These reports come just as more companies are adopting cloud practices and placing mission-critical data into cloud hosts, both public and private. Cloud skeptics frequently point to security risks as a reason for cautiously using cloud services. It’s the security around sensitive data that seems to concern many folks inside of enterprises.
This weekend, BusinessWeek.com will feature our own Anthony M. Freed, Editor and Business Development Director for the Infosec Island Network.