Last week I had the opportunity to discuss what executives need to know about preventing data leakage with Richard Swart at bankinfosecurity.com for a podcast that was posted earlier this week.
Posts Tagged ‘data leakage’
How To Answer Four Questions Executives Have About Data Leakage
Friday, October 19th, 2007You Can Never Really Tell Who Gets Your Wireless Transmissions
Friday, June 15th, 2007It was interesting to read about an elementary school science teacher in a Chicago suburb whose baby monitor picks up the video transmission from inside the space shuttle Atlantis.
Avoid Some Common Email Pitfalls
Friday, June 8th, 2007There are increasing reports of email misuse, malicious use, mistaken use, and just plain bad implementations of email systems that allow the many outside threats and desperado insiders to exploit vulnerabilities.
It is most common for information assurance pros to be fairly diligent in trying to keep malware out of the enterprise network through scanning and filtering emails, and it is good to see that it is also becoming a growing trend to try and prevent sensitive data from leaving the enterprise, “leaking” is the current buzzword of choice, by using scanning and encryption. However, there are many other email mishaps and business damage that can occur through the use, or misuse, of email that can have negative business impact and legal implications.
Obscure Email Security Issues: Whitehouse Provides Lessons in Email Management Practices and Using Non-Business Email Accounts to Conduct Business
Sunday, April 15th, 2007So much is in the news lately related to information assurance it is hard to pick which one to share my thoughts about. However, the misuse of email, managing email, and the maintenance of email systems, which I know I’ve already talked about recently, just keeps bubbling to the top of concerns.
Throughout last week and over the weekend while watching the news programs, listening to the political pundits, and reading various news magazines there has been much talk about how perhaps millions of Whitehouse emails have seemed to have vanished, along with discussion about the use of non-Whitehouse systems for Whitehouse business emails.
Obscure Email Security Issue: 5 Lessons About Re-using Email Addresses
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Does your organization ever re-use email addresses whenever someone leaves the company? Do you know that some of your customers‚Äô and personnel’s email service providers re-use email addresses when their subscribers leave? Probably more than you realize.
Preventing Data Leakage Through Email and Instant Messaging
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Incidents continue to accumulate and hit the daily headlines. Many of them involve the loss of sensitive information through some type of messaging activity. The losses can have devastating impacts to business.
The messaging-related incidents are sometimes technology-based, such as social-engineering tactics through instant messaging (IM) communications, sometimes they pre-meditated malicious activities, and sometimes they are just plain ol’ “OOPS!! What the heck did I just do!!!!???” types of situations.
