http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/ We are the people your IT department warned you about Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:55:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/#comment-256345 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:05:42 +0000 http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/#comment-256345 [...] Chandler Howell has a great post over at the “Not Bad For a Cubicle” blog, discussing the three different ways information is lost: accidental loss, selfish loss (which might also be called carelessness) and malicious loss. While these may seem obvious after reading through them, it’s a nice and simple way of looking at information loss that’s useful to keep in mind. It’s often tempting in doing security risk management to focus too much on one or two of these areas, while spending not enough time on the possibility of a third option. [...] […] Chandler Howell has a great post over at the “Not Bad For a Cubicle” blog, discussing the three different ways information is lost: accidental loss, selfish loss (which might also be called carelessness) and malicious loss. While these may seem obvious after reading through them, it’s a nice and simple way of looking at information loss that’s useful to keep in mind. It’s often tempting in doing security risk management to focus too much on one or two of these areas, while spending not enough time on the possibility of a third option. […]

]]> http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/#comment-43452 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:45:15 +0000 http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/#comment-43452 [...] They agreed that it would do very little to prevent a malicious attacker. If a baby was brought within range of the door’s sensor, the doors of the maternity ward were wired to mag-lock shut and an alarm would sound. Given the ease of removing the tag, however, that would do little to stop a malicious attacker. [...] […] They agreed that it would do very little to prevent a malicious attacker. If a baby was brought within range of the door’s sensor, the doors of the maternity ward were wired to mag-lock shut and an alarm would sound. Given the ease of removing the tag, however, that would do little to stop a malicious attacker. […]

]]> http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/#comment-40966 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:38:47 +0000 http://thurston.halfcat.org/blog/2007/01/10/how-do-i-lose-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/#comment-40966 [...] Chandler Howell discusses data theft and loss in the risk management blog “Not Bad For a Cubicle” last week. [...] […] Chandler Howell discusses data theft and loss in the risk management blog “Not Bad For a Cubicle” last week. […]

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