Like many potential iPhone buyers, I have been checking the news releases from the Apple WWDC every hour or so. Faster speed, better camera, better OS, new apps. What’s not to like? From a security standpoint, the two features that were intriguing for me and (probably) many IT organizations are the data encryption and automatic remote data wipe options. From MacWorld:
Thanks to some bad timing on the part of our new daughter, I managed to miss the window to refresh my EMT certification and earned the privilege of spending two weekends in a refresher class. The class isn’t bad, but I’ve been riding this horse for nearly 20 years (and have the attention span of a garden gnome), so it’s more than a little boring.
Ran across this article on CNN last Friday about how Facebook was going to launch a micro-payment service. Facebook wants to introduce its own virtual currency system that involves credits, coupons, and other types of widgets that can be redeemed for goods or cash.
If you have ever listened to Rich or myself present on data centric security or endpoint encryption, we typically end by saying “Encrypt your freakin’ laptops.” It works. The performance is not terrible and it’s pretty much “set and forget”. We should also throw in “Encrypt your freakin’ USB keys” as well. The devices are lost on a regular basis and still very few have encrypted data on them. I confess that I am fairly lazy and have not been doing this, but started to look into encryption when I…
You ever watch a movie or TV show where you know you know the ending, but you keep viewing in suspense to find out how it actually happens?
Updated June 4th to reflect terminology change.
This is the Re -Introduction to our Database Encryption series. Why are we re-introducing this series? I’m glad you asked. The more we worked on the separation of duties and key management sections, the more dissatisfied we became. Rich and I got some really good feedback from vendors and end users, and we felt we were missing the mark with this series. And not just because the stuff I drafted when I was sick completely lacked clarity of thought,…
Boaz Gelbord wrote a thoughtful response (as did Mike Andrews) to my post earlier this week on the state of web application and data security. In it was one key tidbit on encryption:
This is an article I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Sure, we security folks seem to love to bash Apple, but I thought it would be interesting to take a more constructive approach.
Are you tired of all those BS vendor surveys designed to sell products, and they don’t ever even show you the raw data?
OK, I have to call Bull$%} on this: Anti-piracy pup sniffs out 35,000 illegal DVDs. A piracy fighting dog. Really. From Yahoo! News: