Archives for April, 2011
by Jay Heiser | April 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Every service provider in the world claims to have clean power and well-aged passwords, but what’s the benefit in that if their proprietary technology is hacked? We live in an IT world characterized by pseudotransparency.
Category: Cloud security Tags: risk management, security, Security-Summit-NA
by Jay Heiser | April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
The people responsible for assessing confidentiality, integrity, and availability risks should be focusing their attention on what is relevant to risk.
Category: Cloud risk management security Tags: security, Security-Summit-NA
by Jay Heiser | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off
This morning a group of analysts were comparing notes on some personal and recent experiences with credit card loss. A reasonable person might ask why credit card theft and fraud is so prevalent. The simple answer is that a huge and growing part of our financial transaction system is based on 19th century technology. [...]
Category: risk management security Tags: credit card theft, identity theft, security, Security-Summit-NA
by Jay Heiser | April 4, 2011 | Comments Off
Can there be anyone left in America who hasn’t received at least one notification from a bank or merchant that A) their data was leaked and B) it was Epsilon’s fault. Why is it important that the affected consumers know that a service provider was responsible? Is that necessary information for customers trying to determine [...]
Category: risk management security Tags: liability, outsourcing, service provider