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Hard Disk Encryption needs management…
This week CNET News contributor Jon Oltsik blogged about how he believes that now there’s a unified standard for hardware disk encryption, governments should lead the transition to self-encrypting hard...
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Are we really too dumb to handle protected data?
Following on from my posts on how identitiy / personal data theft protection should be considerd a personal goal of everyone carrying around such information, I thought I’d solicit your opinions – Are...
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Changes to PII and PCI regulations in Nevada
This week Linda McGlasson talked on BankInfo security about some changes to Nevada’s data protection stance. Nevada’s laws are no less complex than other states, but interestingly they have a few...
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AES-256 and Reputational Risk
I came across this excellent article while looking for something different. Dr O’Connor succinctly sums up the idea of impossible, and more impossible when talking about the relative key lengths of...
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iPhone 3GS and BlackBerry (In)securities..
This weeks (potential) major fail goes to Apple for the iPhone 3GS security. As reported by Wired and others, it seems the new 3GS encryption touted by Apple in their “iPhone Security Overview” isn’t...
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TrueCrypt vs Peter Kleissner, Or Stoned BootKit Revisited..
This weeks flame war between TrueCrypt and Peter Kleissner had me both upset and laughing at the same time. For a start, hats off to young Peter (18 years old according to his site), who recently...
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10 Things you don’t want to know about Bitlocker…
So, with the forthcoming release of Windows 7, the ugly beast known as “Bitlocker” has reared its head again. For those of you who were around during the original release of Bitlocker, or as it was...
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Is Encryption enough? Why just encrypting data doesn’t solve today’s...
“But if it’s encrypted, why do I need to login?” the customer across the desk asks me with incredulity. I realise that I’m about to get into a discussion which boarders on theological and raises...
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CSO Executive Seminar Series on Data Protection and Encryption…
Just a reminder that tomorrow I will be speaking at the CSO Executive Seminar at the Hilton, Tysons Corner VA – http://public.cxo.com/conferences/index.html?conferenceID=64. The topic will be “5...
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Two Gulf States to Ban some BlackBerry Functions..
Following on from a failed state-wide “hack” of the Blackberry system, where the state-controlled telco etisalat tried to distribute a “performance enhancing patch” to Blackberry users (which turned...
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IOS8 Security – Apple take the high road?
Jonathan Zdziarski posted an interesting blog last week detailing some of the changes in IOS designed to improve security, and reign in accessibility of data in the new IOS 8 release. Historically,...
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