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How advanced attacks succeed, despite $20B spent annually on enterprise IT security

The FireEye Advanced Threat Report focuses on the threats that have successfully evaded traditional defenses.  As the findings below show, to close the gap in their networks, enterprise security leaders must assume that their networks are compromised, familiarize themselves with … Continue reading

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Value of Corporate Secrets

This is a great read: Value of Corporate Secrets Chief information security officers (CISOs) face increasing demands from their business units, regulators, and business partners to safeguard their information assets. Security programs protect two types of data: secrets that confer … Continue reading

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Microsoft: Sex, Lies……and cybercrime?

Microsoft also recently released an eye catching paper aptly named that discusses the validity of security reports.  Far from being broadly-based estimates of losses across the population, the cyber-crime estimates that we have appear to be largely the answers of … Continue reading

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Latest Microsoft Security Report

Microsoft’s Security Intelligent Report (SIR) v10 has been released and can be found here. The key highlights from Microsoft’s own Roger Halbheer: Industry vulnerability disclosure trends continue an overall trend of moderate declines since 2006. This trend is likely because … Continue reading

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Cisco’s 2011 Q1 Threat Report released

I won’t bother summarizing the findings as Brian Pennington has a great writeup on it already. Click here if you want to see the complete Cisco 2011 Q1 Threat Report for yourself.  

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True Cost/Benefit Analysis of Online Privacy

I came across an interesting article regarding online privacy.  It presents surprising research arguing the advantages of online advertising may actually outweigh the costs including identity theft. Do you think privacy advocates arguments are flawed?  Find out for yourself…. Applications … Continue reading

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HTCIA’s 2010 Report on Cyber Crime Investigation

The High Tech Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) has released their 2010 Report on Cyber Crime Investigation.  Nothing earth shattering here.  Security professionals report: Increase in criminal use of digital technology Lack of dedicated personnel Need for better training at multiple … Continue reading

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