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infosec-economics-article-on-security-pipeline

There's an interesting article on Security Pipeline about the economics of information security. The article discusses why ROI is a poor measure, echoing my first post. But it misses out on a key point: that investing in security reduces your weighted average cost of capital and that you must include the cost of capital in your investment analysis.

shame-ostracism-blogs-and-xss-flaws

There is an excellent post on Security Fix Blog about cross-site scripting flaws at major financial institutions pointed out by Lance James (author Phising Exposed.

student-interest-in-wikid

We get a good number of hits from .edu domains and I was recently asked by a student about using WiKID for a class project on two-factor authentication. This is great and highly encouraged. Feel free to download the commercial server and test it for educational purposes. Obviously, you can really look under the hood of the open source version

summary-of-identity-landscape

I really need to spend more time thinking about identity and focusing on what WiKID needs to do in the identity space. You'll have an identity no matter how you authenticate, but the more you rely on your identity the more important it becomes and the more secure it should be. But I think most of the identity players are focused on making identity easier - i.e. fewer logins.

identity-theft-hits-3-percent-in-2004

Security Focus has the article about the DOJ Survey on the number of US citizens hit by identity theft, but Security Curve puts it in perspective

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