CSO

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

I met the CEO of a holding company on a recent flight to North Carolina. Our conversation started on the topic of my 'Art of War' column. The column, I explained, is focused on sharing Sun Tzu's insights on strategy with information security practitioners. At firts he was silent, but I could tell something was wrong.

There are two identity-related pieces I wanted to highlight for some Friday reading:

Satanic Policy of Disinformation to Influence Public Opinion

“Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.”
--Donella Meadows

For some of us, security is realized through physical and network controls that address the risks to a given environment. Others view techniques aimed at education and user empowerment as critical to organizational security. Then there are those who march onto the risk landscape under the banner of effective governance and oversight.

McAfee's Avert antivirus labs found that almost half of all password-stealing Trojan software detected in the last year target multiplayer online games like "World of Warcraft," "Everquest" and "Lineage." Just a game? No big business and big money.

What is Private Anymore?

Is nothing safe from forensics? It seems everything can be found out!

Jon Oltsik has a blog post up that absolutely nails what should be going on in the world on NAC and

Dave Kearns recounts a recent discussion in his newsletter/co