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Digging it up on Security Costs and Security Budgets – part1

In my previous article, security costs and security budget, I made some assumption to simplify an introductory analysis on how much we should spend on security. Some of those assumptions have been made to simplify out tasks. Today I would like to quickly analyse some of those simplifications. One of the biggest assumption I made on the previous article is that if a problem cost us X then we can find a number n that express the number of incidents I’m allowed to permit so that nX can express the cost I’m allowed to accept. This simplification was based on…

Confessions of a hacker

Image via Wikipedia Confessions of a hackerMarketplaceBy John Moe Marketplace Tech Report, Monday, August 22, 2011 Before there was Anonymous or LulzSec or any number of other contemporary computer hackers, there was Kevin Mitnick. After a prolific criminal career, time in prison, and a transition to a …Marketplace Scot Finnie: This is no time to skimp on securityComputerworldWho knows what groups like Anonymous, AntiSec and LulzSec will target next? Who knows what other countries or nationally focused groups might target US interests — public or private — using cyber sabotage and warfare techniques, such as those … Louise Mensch MP…

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