In The New York Times today, John Markoff and Thom Shanker wrote about how, in 2003, the Pentagon and other military intelligence agencies planned a cyberattack against Saddam Hussein that would have crippled his financial infrastructure in the buildup to the war. However, officials nixed the idea for fear that the results would have far-reaching, […]
On July 2, 2009, NetworkWorld published an article entitled, "Gartner: Seven Cloud-Computing Security Risks." A brief synopsis of the article is that, according to Gartner, "Cloud Computing" is fraught with lots of tangible and intangible risks. They suggest that a security assessment from a neutral third-party be conducted before an organization commits to a […]
Under the U.S. Constitution, the Right to Privacy is interpreted under the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of "unreasonable searches and seizures" clause. But, does that extend to private companies doing business in the U.S.? Conversely, in Canada, its Constitution establishes a Right to Privacy per se, stating that all Canadian citizens’ are entitled to their privacy. […]
Online behavioral advertising is supposed to match our search queries with products that advertisers think we would be interested in buying. However, if most people were told that their search habits were being monitored for advertising purposes (or so they would say), and then sold to the highest bidder without our knowledge or consent […]
If a cyber-terrorist wants to bring down an entire corporate infrastructure by means of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, the odds are in their favor of not being caught. What does that mean to a business? Simply put, they get stuck holding the bag, while the real culprits are never located. According […]
The age old axiom in Property Law is: Ownership is 9/10’s of the law. No where is this more true than what is playing out between Twitter and TechCrunch over confidential documents that were obtained by the blog, TechCrunch, from someone who had hacked into Twitter’s server’s using a simple password of an […]
Passwords are an important part of the world we live in today. Everything from our e-mail account(s) to our online banking and business database point of entry are password protected. This has caused many of us to use the same password time and time again (in the hopes that we don’t show our true […]
For almost 2 years I have been writing on this blog about issues that I see as relevant to emerging businesses. In my professional opinion, I feel that the greatest threat to the long-term viability and valuation of any emerging enterprise is how well they protect their corporate mission-critical information. According to President Obama, […]
Bernard Lunn of The New York Times, recently wrote an article about whether enterprise businesses are keen to the idea of SaaS, or what is otherwise known as "cloud computing." He attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and asked the question "SaaS or on-premise"? The response he got was surprising – at least 50% of […]
For the past couple of years, I have been advising clients, asking questions of professionals, and presenting on the fact that there is extremely little (alright none) caselaw on third-party liability when it comes to protecting mission-critical data. That is until now. The payment systems, or credit card processing, industry has had a set […]