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Cyber-Conflict – A Suggestion

by Dan Blum  |  October 30, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

I feel that in the what hath we wrought? post I succumbed to the emotionalism around the cyberwar topic. This morning I was even thinking of changing the post to give it a more neutral bent, but I see Marcus Ranum commented on it, and if something draws his attention, it must be a good thing! Anyway, [...]

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Cyberwar – What Hath we Wrought?

by Dan Blum  |  October 29, 2011  |  3 Comments

Rain falls outside an office window on a grey October morning, as if to usher in a moody Saturday with little to do. So my thoughts turn again to cyberwar. In an earlier post I wrote I was “fascinated with cyberwar”. As one might be fascinated with a dangerous animal… Yesterday three articles flew like [...]

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Reviewing the First Cloud Security as a Service White Paper

by Dan Blum  |  October 7, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced in late September that the Security as a Service working group has published its first white paper, “Defined Categories of Service 2011”. The purpose of this group’s research is to identify consensus definitions of what Security as a Service means, to categorize the different types of Security as a [...]

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