Ed Moyle
Ed Moyle
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Getting the threat of breach entirely to zero is effectively impossible, even in relatively small enterprises. And the closer we aim toward zero, the more expensive and time-consuming it becomes.
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I'm cautious about taking a functioning known quantity and turning it into something else -- at least without a full understanding of what the ultimate goal is.
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This helps to explain why trying to prevent the possibility of security breaches entirely is a losing battle.
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In general, black hats learn their tricks the same way that everybody else does: through a network of informational Web sites, magazines, conventions and advice from peers. There's even hacker radio.
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Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.
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As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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By using data from their threat-tracking efforts, the CIO can demonstrate how I.T. investment impacted the bottom line in terms of cost savings.
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The enterprise is starting to recognize that IM is here to stay and that it needs to be secured along with other technologies like HTTP and e-mail. As enterprises realize this, they are interested in protecting that technology with products from the vendors they are already using.
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There's no fundamental difference between using QuickBooks to embezzle funds and using a ledger to embezzle funds, ... The technology just changes how the fraud is accomplished and maybe who commits it; it doesn't change why it's committed. As long as there are criminals, they will find a way to use the existing mechanisms to their advantage.
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Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'
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Even if IM isn't used directly for business purposes, a number of organizations still find it beneficial to provide a standardized IM channel. When IM was emerging, many enterprises attempted to restrict IM use, but found there were administrative advantages to offering a sanctioned and standardized IM portal.
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IPv6 is certainly no 'instant on' -- it's a long hard road to get it done.
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Mass-mailing worms will often leverage issues in Office as part of their method of propagation. As such, I strongly advise that these patches be installed as soon as possible -- particularly within the enterprise where the e-mailing of Office documents is more commonplace and expected.
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It allows virus-checking software in an e-mail to filter on that extension and to search files coming in with that extension more carefully, or to exclude them altogether on a content filtering gateway while allowing the majority of the office docs to pass through without hindrance. My only concern is making a smooth transition to the new format.