by Jay Heiser | February 27, 2012 | Comments Off
Today, everybody has a sophisticated spy camera hidden on their telephone, and it doesn’t take a degree in espionage to use them.
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Category: Policy security Tags: camera, data leakage, espionage, industrial espionage, policy, spy camera, spying
by Jay Heiser | February 15, 2012 | Comments Off
Other than some analysis and speculation about how the takedown changed traffic patterns without actually reducing global piracy, and regular reports about the legal status of Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload drama hasn’t provided much in the way of news for a couple of weeks. On the theory that putting the string ‘Megaupload’ into the title of [...]
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Category: Cloud risk management Vendor Contracts Tags: continuity, recovery, SaaS escrow
by Jay Heiser | February 14, 2012 | Comments Off
While I would hope that the CEO of a major technology firm (albeit a somewhat diminished firm in this case) does not have a copy of the root password, the idea of ‘executive privilege’ maybe needs to be rethought.
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Category: security Tags: authentication, hacking, passwords
by Jay Heiser | February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
The dozens of petabytes of Megaupload data belonging to millions of Internet users is manifesting itself as a giant hot potato, currently burning a cashflow and PR hole into the bottom lines of several global hosting firms.
Category: Cloud risk management security Tags: Cloud, security
by Jay Heiser | February 1, 2012 | Comments Off
Last November, Gartner analyst Richard Hunter and I published research entitled ‘Black Swans’ Are Sure to Fly in the Public Cloud. Based on ideas popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, 2007), we strongly urged the users of cloud-based services to plan for the possibility of ”severe failure with [...]
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Category: Cloud risk management security Tags: Cloud, security
