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Book Review: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

If I had only one thing to say about The Art of Deception, it would be that it convinced me that even technologically savvy people fall prey to the guile of practiced social engineers (formerly known as a "con artists" to most of us).



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Good VoIP Deployment Guidelines (Do Not Exist?)

I get questions regarding VoIP deployment all the time. Sometimes it is someone looking for simple and cheap Enterprise VoIP, who are unsure if VoIP can be deployed securely with those two parameters in the equation. More often it is the security aware people who are willing to invest almost anything to make it work, but cannot. As always, there is no silver bullet solution for either. If you look at my past opinions, I keep changing my mind between cheap that works, and secure that doesn't. What do you think? Which way should we go in VoIP?



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The state of information security

CSO’s annual “Global State of Information Security” survey brings to light a few of the failures of how people approach information security, and in particular, focuses on the current economic crisis and the impact that it is having on security technology.

| Feature | Security | 10/23/08 at 3:12 am |


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How the information-centric security approach can protect sensitive company information

How the DRM approach further protects company data?

| How-to | Security | 09/30/08 at 10:53 am |


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VARs have a big opportunity in the midmarket, according to study

According to a study conducted by Echo Research for Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, VARs targeting the mid market "need to improve before they can take full advantage of the market opportunity. The study showed that 70 percent of executives said their consultants performed up to expectation, but only 10 percent said their consultants exceeded expectations.

| News | Channel | 09/05/08 at 9:16 am |


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