Site Map - Proprietary Information Protection

01/25/2011 - Compliance overtakes security concerns as the primary reason for encrypting data. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  

12/23/2010 - Twenty-seven percent of companies experienced data theft last year, according to the latest Kroll Global Fraud Report (.pdf). This was the first time data theft was the most frequently cited form of fraud in the report.

12/21/2010 - 27 The percent of companies that suffered from data theft last year, according to the latest Kroll Global Fraud Report, which polled about 800 international executives.

11/30/2010 - The former hacker and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tells Forbes that his next big leak will target a major U.S. bank and explains the potential of leaks to keep capitalism ethical and markets free. "We’re creating a tremendous reputational tax on the unethical companies," Assange says.

11/29/2010 - Cryptography Engineering spells out the difference between good and bad cryptography in great detail.

09/29/2010 - Companies looking to implement one of the most sensible security standards ever put forth should start here.

08/31/2010 - John Trinckes, Jr., argues that executive leadership is critical to effective data security.

07/28/2010 - In litigation between an insurance company and its former agents, the company claimed that agents misappropriated trade secrets when they used print-outs from the electronic files of insurance policyholders in their search for other jobs. However, the court found that because the same information from the password-protected electronic files was readily available in another format, unsecured physical files stored in the agents’ offices, it cannot be considered a protected trade secret. (Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Mortensen et al, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 08-5214-cv, 2010)

06/30/2010 - A new European study (.pdf) attempts to assess the economic impact of counterfeiting and piracy on creative industries, but a recent GAO study (.pdf) concludes that quantifying the economic effects is difficult, if not impossible.

06/28/2010 - Organizations should assess the enforcement risks in the countries in which they are operating and focus resources, experts say.

02/25/2010 - European Union interior ministers want to negotiate a new agreement on sharing bank data with U.S. counterterrorism investigators, after the European Parliament struck down an interim deal earlier this month, according to EUobserver.com.

02/24/2010 - Open Source Software (OSS) is software developed collaboratively by people willing to share the code free of charge. The owners of the code do not object to its use, but some groups want use of OSS treated as piracy because they say it creates a mind-set that might lead to intellectual property theft.

02/24/2010 - 60 The percentage of enterprises that do not believe their existing security controls can adequately protect sensitive information on company databases. The survey, by Enterprise Strategy Group, polled 175 organizations with 1,000 or more employees.