Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil
According to recent reports, a Chinese company just agreed to a $200 million settlement of a trade secret case in California. Associated Press has reported that a former Home Depot manager has been criminally accused of passing trade secret information. These issues are extremely serious and should be considered carefully by any company large or small.
Smart Grid Privacy Standards Proposed
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI
Access to live energy use data can reveal if people are in the dwelling, what they are doing, where they are in the dwelling, and access to data use profiles that can reveal specific times and locations of electricity use in specific areas of the dwelling can also indicate the types of activities within the dwelling over a period of time. The information revealed is a type of surveillance. We need layers of privacy protections throughout the entire smart grid to effectively address privacy concerns and prevent privacy invasions and breaches.
McAfee’s The Twelve Scams of Christmas
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
According to Consumer Reports’ 2009 State of the Net Survey, cybercriminals have bilked $8 billion from consumers in the past two years, and McAfee warns consumers not to fall victim to the twelve most dangerous online scams that computer users face this holiday season.
Cloud Computing Challenges Infrastructure
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP
Cloud Computing is becoming more and more the buzzword of every conference, meeting and article. Yet it is still in it’s inception, and there are multitude of issues and problems. Here are the mechanisms by which we can approach the level of trust that we have in our infrastructure for the cloud.
US Navy Successfully Tests Cloud Based IaaS
By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline
During a recent interview Navy CIO Robert Carey stated that cloud computing offered real value to the Navy, iting that both the Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network and Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Service programs will leverage cloud computing. He envisions a future day when “Grey clouds” within a ship’s hull will transition to clouds within the battle group.
Report: Domestic Terror Threat on the Rise
By Professor Jenni Hesterman, Counterterrorism Expert
Report: The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.
Comcast Homepage Hackers Indicted
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
The hackers ages 19 and 20 at the time known as Defiant and EBK from a group calling themselves Kryogeniks. Where they screwed up during their stunt was when they changed the contact information for the Comcast.net domain to Defiant’s e-mail address. Brilliant hackers yet not so smart.
Telecommuting and Enterprise Security
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
Remote working, or working from home, is becoming increasingly popular as companies seek the economic benefits of moving some of its team out of the office, or having employees that are able to log on at home. But, businesses could be exposing themselves to more risk by using remote workers if the process is not properly thought through and monitored.
Surviving Cyber War: A Primer on DDoS
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Just as markets do a better job of regulating good and bad business practices in rapidly evolving economies, the self interested protection of the security community may be the best response to the scourge of Internet pestilence. Viruses, worms, spam, spyware, and botnets have all changed the Internet and the way organizations use it for profit.
Cyber Security Red Flags For Insurance
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
They start with basic questions: Are you a public company? Have you been in any actual or attempted merger, acquisition or divestment within the past two years? How many employees? What percentage of your revenue is international? From there they hone in on the specific controls and safeguards you have in place to secure your data and IT infrastructure. Here are seven areas that the insurance carriers are looking at…
