data loss prevention

Sony CEO gives reason for data breaches: Bad people don't like how responsible we are

Posted June 30, 2011 - 1:00 pm

Stringer: the 2nd-largest data breach in history was prompted by Sony suits against customers who mod its game console, not laughable security, poor management and ineffective response.
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Use OpenDLP to find valuable data before attackers do

Posted May 12, 2011 - 4:03 pm

“OpenDLP is a free and open source, agent-based, centrally managed, massively distributable data loss prevention tool.” This is how creator Andrew Gavin defines OpenDLP. While this tool could be used to monitor sensitive data on hundreds of systems simultaneously, it could also be used to steal massive amounts of data very quickly.
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Apps to stop data breaches are too complicated to use

Posted May 4, 2011 - 3:31 pm

Data loss protection can protect the specific information you think is too valuable to use; it can also take two years to put into effect.
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Sony launches aggressive investigation of breach; does little for customers

Posted May 4, 2011 - 11:38 am

Sony is aggressively investigating the breaches that lost it data on 100 million customers; so far it hasn't done much to make up the loss to them, though. Shouldn't that come first?
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DOJ: FBI digital counterintelligence weakened by focus on child porn

Posted April 29, 2011 - 11:35 am

Despite espionage campaigns that net 'terabytes' of sensitive data, FBI agents don't get the training or direction to counter attacks; top brass prefers to break down doors.
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Skype gives away private data from Android, gives IT a teachable moment

Posted April 18, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Using a grossly insecure Skype client and new exploit for illustration, IT can show its value even to phone users who scoff at musty ideas of how to keep data secure.
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Texas security gaffe dwarfs data breach at Epsilon

Posted April 11, 2011 - 3:49 pm

Bad enough to put personal records on a public server unencrypted, but then to leave them there for a year?
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Verizon admits it was among Epsilon customers in data breach

Posted April 6, 2011 - 2:49 pm

Verizon admitted in emails directly to customers that its data was among that stolen from email service company Epsilon, presumably widening the pool of potential victims.
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IT security study carries cynically great news for CIOs

Posted March 8, 2011 - 2:55 pm

Negligence, not bad IT or good cracking, is what causes more data breaches and costs more than cracks in IT security. No one has a budget to address it.
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Too much 'rape' in WikiLeaks coverage

Posted December 7, 2010 - 11:20 am

News reports focus on sex-crime charges vs. WikiLeaks founder, without describing charges that have little to do with sexual assault.
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WikiLeaks signs its own death warrant with threat to businesses

Posted December 2, 2010 - 1:05 pm

Real data-loss prevention is a political as much as a technical problem; the WikiLeaks example and its threat to dish on corporations makes a good case to help IT address both.
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