Valuing Privacy
What’s your privacy worth? That’s not a theoretical or hypothetical question. Give me a dollar value. If someone were to read your bank statement, view your medical record, know your…
DetailsApple Agrees to Settle Patent Infringement Lawsuit Brought by Intertrust Technologies Corp
Apple Inc and Intertrust Technologies Corp, a provider of trusted computing technologies, have agreed to settle a year-old patent infringement case, according to court records. Terms of the settlement were…
DetailsFirewall Policy Management Evolves to Security Policy Orchestration
This series of articles and the accompanying videos are part of an ongoing project to illuminate the people, products, and vendors that make up the IT security industry. The vendors…
DetailsFaking Forensics
You have mail. Maybe. And that’s the problem. We admit electronic evidence into court and rely upon it in our day-to-day transactions all the time. But can we really and…
DetailsCyber Policy Experts to Follow on Twitter
The emerging field of cyber policy is attracting government, academic, and technology experts. Here is a list of cyber policy experts from around the world who are well worth following…
DetailsBreach Detection Report From NSS Labs Defines Winners/Losers
NSS Labs has issued the first test results of Breach Detection Systems (BDS). Breach Detection, sometimes called Advanced Malware Defense, is usually a gateway device that inspects downloaded executables by…
DetailsWhy Is Congress So Hot on Information Sharing?
A perplexing question for those in IT security is why are so many in government pushing for “information sharing” as their solution to the cyber crisis? The crisis is apparent…
DetailsUnited Nations Launches Global Cybersecurity Index
The United Nations (UN) International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced the launch of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) to measure the status of cybersecurity worldwide, the UN said in a statement.…
DetailsWhere Are the US Tech Heroes?
It has been three months since the world learned that the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, through its Tailored Access Operations (TAO) has been deploying backdoors in Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Dell,…
DetailsNever The Twain Shall Meet: Why Network Security Vendors Should Stay Away From End Point Security, and Vice-Versa
There would be many more successful security companies if their founders and leaders had a better understanding of the IT security space. One fallacy that will not die is the…
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