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Viewing posts from January, 2009

us-banks-given-authentication-deadline

From Finextra. Looks like two-factor authentication is coming to a bank near you.

100-percent-open-source

One of our customers is attempting to go 100% open source, which factored heavily in their choice of WiKID for two-factor authentication. They liked our "appliance in an ISO" model, but were not so fond of our use of Java :)

what-is-the-point-of-putting-your-liquids-in-a

When the UFOs just float in from above?

favorite-posts-of-2006

Here is a list of my favorite posts from 2006. Yes, these are my favorites posts by me and yes, it means I'm phoning it in for the rest of the year. Thanks for reading. I intend to kick off the year with the usual thought-provoking, yet not well-thought out

stock-market-values-and-information-security

There has been some excellent research done on the impact of information security breaches on the market cap of affected firms (which directly impacts their cost of capital): "The economic cost of publicly announced information security breaches: empirical evidence from the stock market Katherine Campbell, Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb and Lei Zhou Accounting and Information Assurance, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2003" (http://brief.weburb.dk/archive/00000130/01/2003-costs-security-on-stockvalue-9972866.pdf)

This UMD study found that a firm suffering a breach of 'confidential information' saw a 5% drop in stock price while firms suffering a non-confidential breach saw no impact.

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