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Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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The Best of the Bad Outcomes

by Greg Young  |  October 19, 2008  |  Comments Off

It was reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had a small amount of funds swindled from his personal bank account.

This however seems to be another case of the Security Article Generator going into production mode. For a G8 leader, losing a small amount of money from your personal bank account is the best of all the possible things that hackers could go after and get.

I did like the realpolitik and pragmatic risk assessment by the French spokesman – "proves that this system of checking (bank accounts) via the Internet isn’t infallible." 

Speaking of pragmatism, my colleagues Mark Nicolett and Avivah Litan released a research note last week titled "Using SIEM For Fraud Detection".

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