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more-on-de-perimeterization

Having just posted on de-perimeterization, I thought that this quote from Scott Borg of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit on the consequences of breaches:

"We started seeing huge vulnerabilities," Borg said Wednesday at the GovSec conference in Washington, where the draft document was released. Most of the systems were compliant with current security checklists and best practices. "And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines," susceptible to being outflanked.

more-on-effectiveness-of-strong-authentication

Network World has given Bruce Schneier a chance to clarify his position that strong authentication is "Too Little Too Late" and has given RSA's CTO, Joe Uniejewski, a chance to rebut.

more-on-layered-authentication

Ok, I slagged the concept of 'layered' authentication as a marketing neologism in my response to Eric Nolan's identity predictions for 2006. I was overcome by prediction hysteria. I've got to calm down...

more-on-online-brokerage-fraud

The Washington Post has an article today about the the increase in online brokerage fraud.

E-Trade Financial Corp., the nation's fourth-largest online broker, said last week that "concerted rings" in Eastern Europe and Thailand caused their customers $18 million in losses in the third quarter alone.
To put that into perspective, E-Trade earned $128.1 million on revenue of $488.7 in their fiscal fourth quarter.

more-on-targeted-phishing-attacks

A nice round up of article over at Infoworld, which links to a Washington Post article on virtual credit cards.

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