November 14, 2008:
New York Department of Transportation clears the way for better collaboration between government and motorists
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Commissioners from both the New York State and New York City Departments of Transportation were on hand to bring the Joint Traffic Management Center (JTMC) online today. New York City DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was eloquent in her vision of...
September 12, 2008:
See you on the show floor
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I'm not sure if I'll be blogging from the ASIS show floor this year. It depends on the signal I get from my PDA. I will be making short videos with my new Flip Video camera and will post them...
July 30, 2008:
Changing the security industry, one free beer at a time
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The next SecurityDreamer event is going to be a doozy. The last five (two in Chicago, plus DC, Vegas and Silicon Valley) were all hits - but the next will either dramatically alter the course of the security industry, or...
June 25, 2008:
What's that smell? Could it be your stinking rotting security infrastructure?
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This post on NextGov echoes many of the frustrations security executives have about their own command centers and security operations. It is the elephant in the room, namely, that our security infrastructures stink, and the vendors and integrators don't seem...
June 9, 2008:
The deluge of data: It's not just stuff, it's information!
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The physical security industry has had a love hate (mostly hate) relationship with the concept of data. We like to think in terms of events (door openings) or video streams. It usually doesn’t cross our minds that those things are...
May 27, 2008:
We're all Witch Doctors
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Witch Doctor n (1718) a professional worker of magic usu. in a primitive society who often works to cure sickness (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) In primitive societies and cultures, there was a widely held belief that many of the...
April 17, 2008:
Secure the business, not the building
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March 31, 2008:
Security pros need help from HR, internal audit and some unusual suspects
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In an earlier post, I wrote this, but one of the greatest security advisors of our time (IMHO) added his thoughts. [securitydreamer] “A CISO at a Fortune 500 telecommunications company in the US said his organization is improving three classes...
January 24, 2008:
security policy humor - for you hard core security geeks
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When asked about his Blackberry password policy, one information security officer said, "We require an 8 character password (just like any other networked device up here), wipe after 10 attempts, and force it to lock after 15 minutes. But we...
October 26, 2007:
Are you wasting your security dollars again??
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I frequently write about attaining and measuring value in security, but I have never come across such a systematic and to-the-point analysis as Richard Bejtlich's TaoSecurity post. Here's an excerpt:Are you secure? Prove it. These five words form the core...
