Ed Moyle
Ed Moyle
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Even if IM isn't used directly for business purposes, a number of organizations still find it beneficial to provide a standardized IM channel. When IM was emerging, many enterprises attempted to restrict IM use, but found there were administrative advantages to offering a sanctioned and standardized IM portal.
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The best security organizations I've worked with understand and attempt to quantify the risk-management decisions they make on an ongoing basis.
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As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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There's also usually a black hat contingent at most mainstream security conferences. Since information security and hacking are two sides of the same coin, many hackers go to security conferences and many security professionals go to hacker events -- neither community seems to mind.
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Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'
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There's no fundamental difference between using QuickBooks to embezzle funds and using a ledger to embezzle funds, ... The technology just changes how the fraud is accomplished and maybe who commits it; it doesn't change why it's committed. As long as there are criminals, they will find a way to use the existing mechanisms to their advantage.
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The enterprise is starting to recognize that IM is here to stay and that it needs to be secured along with other technologies like HTTP and e-mail. As enterprises realize this, they are interested in protecting that technology with products from the vendors they are already using.
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The idea sounds good because a lot of viruses have used the macro capability of Office for propagation purposes and that's a huge problem, ... Having a new extension for this will allow the virus-checking software on e-mail gateways to filter on that particular extension, either to search files coming in with that extension more carefully, or to exclude them altogether.
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This helps to explain why trying to prevent the possibility of security breaches entirely is a losing battle.