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Data Classification. I’m not sure I have ever seen an implementation of a Data Classification policy that I would say, is very successful. It’s a scary thought given that Data Classification is a key foundation policy for Information Security.
For those who have implemented a Data Classificati...
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If I had to highlight a key problem area for organizations when it comes to how they approach Information Security and Risk Management overall, it would be the over-complication of their implementation(s), or lack thereof. (Sounds strange for the latter but it’s that “complication”...
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First the good news: the IT services industry as a whole has overwhelmingly surpassed both software and hardware spending. One survey found that IT consulting services accounted for $748 billion in worldwide spending, compared to $382 billion for hardware and $178 billion for software. This is great...
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If I take a look at power consumption beyond data centers, my current thinking is that the market will follow this sequence:
Mitigation with power consumption
Mitigation with energy consumption
Carbon footprint awareness
Renewable energy
Smart grid
Among the above, I think the mental transition fr...
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Editor’s Note: In her second video blog post for Tek-Tips, Eve Maler takes a look at the recent Twitter break in with some insights about behavior and user authentication. Have your behaviors changed? Can you remove login and password authentication for your users? Eve thinks you can.
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Bronwyn Johnson is our newest guest blogger. She works at VeriSign, hailing from South Africa, where she works as a product marketing manager. She is also a novelist and freelance journalist. In this post, she looks at the importance of where you place your Trust Certificate to show customers.
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A new whitepaper from Reymann Group promises “compliance for free.” Too good to be true? Not really. What’s the catch? There is none.
My executive summary of the paper is this: If you have a compliance program, you almost certainly also need a security program. But if y...
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Owen Greaves is that rare IT consultant who bridges that chasm between IT and marketing. As a regular guest blogger for Tek-Tips, Owen will be sharing his insights with us about IT management, technology consulting and the impact of social media on the IT professional. Please help us in welcoming Ow...
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Welcome Drazen Drazic, our newest guest blogger. Drazen’s posts will be a feature of our Wednesday coverage of the data security world. Drazen is the CEO of Securus Global. He is a strategic consultant, working across several industries on matters to do with Information Security strategy. Dra...
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This was the title of my last post on the SecurityVibes website and relates to the July 4th cyber attacks on the US government that allegedly brought down several US government departments for days. There were several lessons to be learned from this attack but the one I want to focus on is the one t...
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We’d like to call Eve Maler our first guest “vlogger.” We asked Eve to set up her video camera to answer a series of questions over the next several weeks about identity issues and cloud computing. In her first installment, Eve answers the question about what identity issues the en...
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Planning and provisioning consistent development, testing and production environments is not for the faint of heart. Tools for managing elements within traditional corporate IT environments are rather mature and well-established, but their value has yet to really be adapted for the rapid emergence o...
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Part of the Enterasys IT staff’s annual plan in 2008 was to consolidate our data centers into several strategic locations. The reasons for this consolidation included a need to reduce costs associated with multiple locations, as well as a company-wide campaign to reduce energy consumption....
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Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Chris Schwartzbauer, our latest guest blogger. For more about Chris, please see the accompanying post with his bio information.
By Chris Schwartzbauer
Microsoft’s offering of free anti-virus software is like everything that Microsoft has ever do...
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Please welcome Chris Schwartzbauer of Shavlik Technologies, our newest guest blogger. Here’s a bit about Chris:
Chris drives the strategy for all of Shavlik Technologies‘ customer facing operations. He heads up global marketing, sales, business development, and customer support activi...
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