by John Pescatore | June 30, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I want to own/control my location data – it isn’t free. (Apple updates its “privacy” policy to say it will do as it likes with its customers locations data) (I was off on Monday, doing Twelve Word Tuesday a day late, penalized myself a word)
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by John Pescatore | June 29, 2010 | Submit a Comment
US Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt announced the release of the draft “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” last Friday. With identity theft thriving it is clear that some improvement in Internet authentication needs to happen, but this plan repeats the major error in focus of the private industry efforts before it (Liberty, Passport, Open [...]
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by John Pescatore | June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Mainframes were a closed platform – only the demi-gods in the basement could load applications. For security, life was good – not so much for creativity and user responsiveness, though. The PC is an open platform – users can create and load applications, and (even worse) send them to each other. Security has been a [...]
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by John Pescatore | June 24, 2010 | Submit a Comment
This past Sunday through Wednesday was the 16th annual Gartner Information Security Summit, held for the past 7 or 8 years in the Washington DC area where I live. I’ve used this line before, but at these conferences Gartner uses every part of an analyst, including the oink – we are either doing presentations, talking [...]
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by John Pescatore | June 22, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Computers smart enough to win Jeopardy – human enough to fall for phishing? IBM’s Blue Gene Computer Takes On Jeopardy
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by John Pescatore | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Yesterday, ICANN and 14 Trusted Community Representatives held the first DNSSEC Key Signing Ceremony at a data center in Culpeper, VA. Don’t shout “GOOOAAAALLLL” just yet – this just means that secure key material was generated and signed for the first root server, more to come over the next month. The current plan is for [...]
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by John Pescatore | June 15, 2010 | Submit a Comment
SysAdmin mistakes/bad decisions: eternal enabler of the most damaging security incidents.
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by John Pescatore | June 14, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I spent a day last week with Gartner clients in Chicago, and I was surprised at a redux of questions about maintaining security when budget cuts were hitting. This was for different reasons: coming health care reform, company reorganization, more IT outsourcing impacting internal IT headcount, etc. But, it is pretty clear that for many enterprises happy days [...]
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by John Pescatore | June 11, 2010 | 5 Comments
Back in 1798, Thomas Malthus published “An Essay on the Principle of Population” and made the famous Malthusian Prediction: … the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. About 200 years later, many began predicting that the lure of the Internet is indefinitely greater than [...]
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by John Pescatore | June 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
My daughter went to the Washington Nationals baseball game Tuesday night. For those of you not in the DC area, or who are not sports fans, the big deal was that Stephen Strasburg, the top pick of the latest baseball draft, was making his first start. The hype in the DC area rivaled the fervor a few [...]
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