Posts tagged: strategic asset

Cyber Risk being disclosed in SEC filings

A June 8 Bloomberg Businessweek article noted that publicly traded companies have started including the “material risk” of computer attacks in their SEC filings.  It’s interesting to see the admission of some major companies that the threat of targeted attacks can impact the bottom line. In what will undoubtedly become the trend in risk reporting [...]

Tuesday June 15th, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »

Thousands of Businesses had an Uneventful Day

I guess that headline wouldn’t sell too many papers but in most cases this is the reality that drives many decisions related to information security investment.  For most executives, the sky isn’t always falling and a security team that tries to operate under that premise is soon thought of as the Boy Who Cried Wolf.  [...]

Thursday May 27th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

Back to Basics

I just read an article “Basic security measures do wonders” and it drove home a point that seems to have been lost with the inundation of terms such as “CyberWar” and “Advanced Persistent Threat”.  While we spend a lot of time implementing new technologies or applying frameworks, we sometimes forget that applying basics and using [...]

Thursday March 11th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »

Don’t Let FUD Trump Value

The Google “Aurora” incident illustrates an ongoing problem with the “media motivated” approach many organization take in regards to information security.  A major event happens and there is a short-lived window of opportunity to ride the “it can happen to us” wave to secure some funding for the latest toy or gadget.  Unfortunately, some executives [...]

Friday January 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Information Delivery vs. Information Security

A System Administrator and an Information Security Administrator were sitting in a room.  The question was asked “When you install a new server, what is the first two things you do?” Both of them answer, “install the latest patches and updates and remove all unnecessary services”.  Good answers but the reasoning behind these answers are [...]

Monday November 9th, 2009 in , , , , | No Comments »

National Cybersecurity Initiative… Good, but….

Finally!  The U.S. makes a conscious decision to consider the digital roadways that carry the information of citizens, business, and government as a “strategic national asset”.  Acknowledging the importance is certainly a step, albeit a late one, in the right direction.  Let there be no mistake, it’s a difficult task to defend a nation in [...]

Thursday June 4th, 2009 in , , , | No Comments »