According to the time tracking feature of my Wii (which you can’t disable, nice parental feature), I played 3 hours and 46 minutes of Guitar Hero III last night after picking it up at Target. I have to fully admit I was skeptical of the whole Guitar Hero thing when it first came out, but it’s incredibly addictive. And not just when I’m drunk at a Christmas party. Not that I’d drink at a Christmas party and play video games. That wouldn’t be proper behavior for a non-practicing Jew.
In our last post on this topic we covered the technologies that encompass the Create and Store stages of the Data Security Lifecycle. Today we’ll detail out the tools for Use and Share.
I just posted an explanation of Leopard Security (that’s Mac OS X 10.5 for you non-Apple geeks) up on TidBITS. It’s based on my original blog post here, but expanded and simplified to appeal to a more general audience.
IBM and Vormetric announces a deal yesterday where… well, I’ll let them say it:
LAS VEGAS, NV – (MARKET WIRE) – 10/18/2007 – Vormetric, Inc. today announced that it has partnered with IBM to deliver database encryption capabilities for DB2 on Windows, Linux and Unix. IBM will offer Vormetric’s highly acclaimed data security solution as part of its data server portfolio, addressing customer demand for increased protection of sensitive data. This new capability is delivered in IBM Database…
Martin is on the road starting up his new job as a PCI auditor for Trustwave so I made my best attempt to record the podcast. More than a few technical difficulties later, we finally completed recording. Sorry about the extra reverb, I’m still figuring out my setup and accidentally left it a little high. For the record, Audio Hijack Pro rocks and I regret trying to record without it.
No, this isn’t science fiction. According to Wired’s Danger Room, an automatic defense system went out of control in South Africa during a live fire exercise. Nine soldiers lost their lives, and fourteen were injured.
Hoff (and some others) have been talking a lot about hope and the future.
Chris has dedicated most of his recent posts to making us think differently about security. To drop our archaic models of the past and look towards solutions for the future. It’s a noble goal, one I support completely. Dr. Eugene Spafford, a seminal figure in information security, is also dedicating effort to the cause. I’m firmly in their camp and believe that while we don’t need an entirely new model for security, we…
Honey? My Blackberry broke. What? I don’t know, it just stopped working. Yeah, I know it looks like it fell off the roof, but I don’t know how that could have happened.
This is such a straightforward problem to solve it’s annoying that it still makes the headlines. Laptop and tape encryption are the low hanging fruit of data security. Not that they are click-box easy, but it’s pretty straightforward for most organizations to protect this stuff.
One of the reasons I spend so much time talking about DLP around here is that it’s one of the first markets I covered as an analyst and I’ve been able to watch it grow from the start.