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60 Minutes: “Say goodbye to anonymity”

In case you missed 60 Minutes on CBS last night, there’s a new challenge to privacy that is coming faster than people realize and was made more urgent by the terror attack in Boston a month ago. The 60 Minutes piece started with the following: The ability of computers to recognize faces has gotten a […]

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Information security avoids avoiding the avoidable…what the what?

The following is a guest post by Chima Njaka. This week TIBCO LogLogic has been taking part at InfoSec Europe, the largest Information Security Event in Europe.  According to initial reports, there are over 17,000 registrants at this year’s event.  We are at booth F50 and we hope to see you there. One of the […]

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Avoiding another 9/11 moment

In a speech last week, U .S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta shocked many people with how real the threat is of a cyber attack on the U.S. and our infrastructure. In his talk to the Business Executives for National Security, Panetta painted a picture of an attack that would cause physical destruction and the loss […]

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Data Loss

Data: You can’t get it back once it’s gone

You’d have to be on another planet to miss the stories of data loss by major companies. It seems amazing that this could happen in an age of encryption, fire walls, and hyper-high tech security. Yet it does. As a consumer and technology professional, I’ve witnessed first hand that Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software, designed […]

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Julian Assange

Social media is the great equalizer

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is once again in the news, this time holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Regardless of how you feel about Wikileaks and the charges Assange faces in Sweden, the way this story has played out across the world is a remarkable Internet and social saga. Even ten years ago, […]

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Enterprise security

Security in an insecure world

In a recent TechCrunch article, Just Like Everything Else In The Enterprise Space, Security Is About To Be Disrupted, the author argues that the momentum of change in enterprise technology will roll over this space as well. I’m going to tell you why simply shopping for a security vendor may not be enough. The good […]

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