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Archive for February, 2007

Security Practices Apply to Everyone

Recently, I had requested bank account numbers and bank routing numbers from a few companies with whom we have just begun doing business. I needed to get these companies set up for on line payments since all of our corporate banking is conducted electronically. I made my request to accountants, chief financial officers and the [...]

Secure VPN boosts business continuity

Business continuity is subject to many unexpected events, one of which is the weather. When New York got covered by 9 feet of snow, practically everyone had to stay home until the roads were clear. But the productivity of some businesses was virtually unphased by the tons of snow because they use secure VPN access [...]

More Facts About the Insider Threat

The US military and CERT have released some interesting data on the insider threat to organizations. You can find a media write up of it here. Of most interest were some of the numbers. I was pretty amazed by the fact that 86% of the insider threat originates in IT and that some 90% of [...]

Completed: The MSI Promise of “Finding a Better Way to Do Intrusion Detection”

With the release of our HoneyPoint:Network Trust Agent (HP:NTA) product this week, we have completed our promise to develop HoneyPoint technologies that are deployable throughout the entire organization. For more than two years, our clients and other security folks have been telling us that Intrusion Detection technologies were just not cutting it when it came [...]