It’s good to have a contingency plan for Web site traffic surges

The record snowfall in the Washington, D.C. area since last weekend has been notable for the widespread closings it has caused, and came with an unanticipated side effect for the federal government: the unavailability of its…

Focus on forensics looks like an early trend for 2010

A recent article in Washington Technology cites findings in forensic investigations by the Verizon Business Risk team to highlight the difficulty many organizations have in identifying — much less responding to — security intrusions and data…

Security monitoring essential to attack anticipation, even if the nature of the attack is unclear

Security analysts reported yesterday a noticeable spike in network traffic associated with the Pushdo botnet, whose computers somewhat curiously are sending large numbers of fake SSL connections to lots of high-profile websites, including those of the…

Excitement plus a little security trepidation about the iPad

Just a day after Steve Jobs presented the highly-anticipated iPad at an event in San Francisco, security analysts are raising concerns about malware, browser and other application attacks, phishing, and other threats seen against the iPhone….

If you build it, will anyone come?

In all the discussion about health information exchange and electronic health records and establishing trust among public and private sector organizations, what’s often lost is the voice of the consumer. The goal of widespread EHR adoption…

Side-effect of the “instant information” world: frequency trumps accuracy

In a coincidental reinforcement of a point we raised recently in a different context about the difficulty of establishing the credibility of information found on the Internet, a reliance on unsubstantiated claims and poorly verified (or…

IronClad’s “PC on a stick” could be a benefit or a threat

Defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin announced the general availability of its IronCladTM secure USB drive as a fully self-contained PC, containing operating system, applications, and data all within a flash drive form factor that presents the…