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Position yourself on Security Maturity Grid

I wrote up the Security Maturity Grid the way quality management is usually presented. The grid is a simple 5 x 6 matrix that shows different stages of maturity of the company’s security management against six different security management categories (management understanding of security, problem handling, cost of security, etc). The lowest stage of maturity ...

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Facebook “joins” Tor – good-bye, privacy!

Multiple publications are touting the announcement by Facebook of a Tor-enabled version of the social networking website as nothing short of a breakthrough for anonymous access from “repressed nations”. They think that the people around the world who wish their identity and activity online to remain hidden will now have a great time of using ...

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Getting revenue on security?

I am looking now into arguably the hardest problem of security: how to make it pay off. Security is usually seen as a risk management tool, where increasing security investment lowers the risk of costly disasters. But the trade off between security and risk is hard to evaluate and there is a bias for ignoring ...

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