Even with the best policies and practices in place, everything hinges on the end user. This weekend, Congressman Hoekstra Twittered secret Iraqi travel plans, showing how easily private information is disseminated and security may be [...]
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Postini is Google’s 2006 acquisition for secure messaging, and a direct competitor to IronPort. All of their offerings surround Software As A Service (SAAS), matching directly with Google’s overall technology strategy. They provide several services, including web security, anti-spam/malware, mail filtering, and archival with indexing. The Data Leakage Prevention capabilities provide privacy protections through outbound communication filters. Additionally, there are management tools and continuity procedures appropriate for enterprise use. Postini’s background technology stems from threat assessment and message parsing capabilities, grown through several years as a primary mail provider. There are two major patents, with a variety of [...] Electronic Discovery, or eDiscovery, is the digital analog to a court request for documents and files pertaining to a proceeding. As with anything digital, the courts expect discovery times in days and weeks, versus the months (years) given for paper files. Punishments for failure to produce could be regulatory, legislative, or may even include court based consequences such as contempt charges. In a recent survey by Information Security Magazine, only 28 percent of respondents knew how they would handle an eDiscovery request. Even knowing where to look seems a daunting task. I have trouble at [...] I find ‘America’s Funniest Videos’ entertaining. I get ‘Jackass’… They scare people, gross them out, or generally bewilder. But they don’t intentionally go out and drop toilet bowls on people’s heads or put others lives in danger. What I don’t get is the recent hack of the Epilepsy Foundation forums, changing posts so that they displayed flashing strobes and trippy patterns. I find this behavior reprehensible. To sully a non-profit’s reputation, and attack unsuspecting seizure disorder suffers, many of whom may be incapcitated by the strobes or patterns. Thankfully most of them probably don’t know what happened, essentially blacking [...] |
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