New Laptop Bags May Speed TSA Checkpoints
Airport checkpoints have been a choke point for travelers with laptops. That's about to change, thanks to newly redesigned bags.
Congress: Terror Threat System Full of Flaws
A U.S. House subcommittee is charging that a $500 million IT project intended to "connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a failure.
Separation of Duties and IT Security
Muddied responsibilities create unwanted risk. Kevin Coleman says auditors may start labeling poorly defined IT duties as a material deficiency.
Check Point Marries Virtual, Physical Security
Running virtual machines is easy. It's managing and securing them that's the problem, according to both users and analysts. Check Point Software Technologies thinks it has an answer: the VPN-1 VE (Virtual Edition).
Flap Over Transit Flaws Exposes Disclosure Divide
A court order put a stop to a planned presentation at the Defcon hackers convention by three MIT students who found security flaws in the electronic ticketing system used by the mass transit authority in Boston. But the ruling reopened the schism in the IT security community over the issue of how vulnerabilities should be publicly disclosed.
Monitoring the Enemy Within: Reflections on a New Internal Data Theft Study
Who steals data, and what do they do with it? Cooper Bachman of ID Analytics scrutinizes research from a dozen data thefts resulting in 1,300 attempted instances of data misuse.
Flying to Defcon with no ID
Defcon attendee Sherri Davidoff travelled to the conference without ID. She spotted a few flaws in the TSA system along the way.
Dan Geer Helping CIA, Enjoying 'Gee-Whiz' Moments
Security luminary Dan Geer talks with CSO about all the fun he's having as the new CISO of In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community. He also revisits the Microsoft monoculture debate that lead to his firing from @Stake five years ago.
Numbers | CFEs Rank Most Important Fraud-Prevention Controls
From the ACFE's 2008 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse
Joe's Gatehouse
The only way through the perimeter fence at Joe's Office is through the manned gatehouse, which features several measures for stopping a determined intruder.
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