Enterprise security giant Symantec announced yesterday that it will acquire the privately held vulnerability assessment and security compliance vendor Gideon Technologies. While Gideon focuses on commercial markets such as financial services and health care as well…
The Secure Flight program recently implemented under the authority of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is raising a number of privacy issues not just in the United States, but also in foreign countries whose privacy laws…
In a story widely reported last Monday, enterprise software giant EMC Corp. announced its pending acquisition of the private company Archer Technologies, a vendor of IT governance and compliance solutions. EMC plans to make Archer part…
We launched this blog a year ago today, as an adjunct to our SecurityArchitecture.com website. It took us a few months to hit our stride, but in the past few months we’ve become not only more…
While the technical infrastructure required to support information sharing don’t really change from context to context, security and privacy requirements applying to senders and receivers of information do vary quite a bit depending on the domain….
The Wall Street Journal published an article on December 17 reporting that the U.S. military has discovered that wireless video feeds from unmanned Predator drones operating in Iraq are often intercepted by enemy insurgents. The ability…
As reported on Wednesday in the Washington Post and elsewhere, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently disclosed sensitive information about its airline passenger screening practices by posting a document containing this information online. The mistakes involved…
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