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schwarzenegger-vetoes-pci-esque-legislation

Legislation that would have made merchants responsible for card-reissuance and other identity theft costs was vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger.

embedding-wikid-two-factor-authentication-in-your

One of our customers, Online Banking Solutions offers banks and financial institution software for commercial account management. They have embedded WiKID for two-factor session authentication and mutual https authentication in both the server side and on their optional client. The combined client facilitates the initial validation process, performs session authentication using the one-time passcode and performs mutual https authentication to prevent MITM attacks.

including-annual-average-loss-expectancy-in-npv

People ask me what I do on a blog, like they expect that I tell people about my bowel movements or something. I tell them that it gives me an outlet to proselytize about two-factor authentication, post things that don't belong on a corporate marketing site and throw up half-baked thoughts without the pressure of writing a full-blown white paper. This post is goes under the last category.

how-to-get-microsoft-esque-security-with-open

I was duly impressed with the recent ComputerWorld article about how Microsoft fends off 100,000 attacks per month. That is a lot of attacks! The article doesn't mention what Microsoft has spent on security, but my guess is: More than your company's revenues. So what is a poor company to do? Like wine, it is easy find a good bottle of $30 wine, the challenge is finding a good bottle of $8 wine (and were talking magnum). Luckily, thanks to open source software and the many tools built into Linux, even the stingiest of companies can have good security.

on-the-short-tenure-of-cisos-and-low-frequency

I came across this post which pointed to this article on how to hedge funds can write a series of naked puts on low-probability events and look like geniuses. I have equated this to the information security market before and I have pointed out other posts about low-frequency, high-impact events.

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