security investment
Dump anti-virus and move to secure-by-design?
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-10-15
- Society, antivirus, economics, externalities, infection, malware, mobile, ROI, secure by design, security investment, virus
I stumbled across an article this morning that analyses the threat to the mobile devices from malware and comes to the conclusion that it is not likely a good idea to have an anti-virus on your mobile. The premises are that only a very few of the mobile devices are currently infected, so the conclusion ...
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Getting revenue on security?
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-04-09
- Management, business, cost, economics, general, profit, revenue, risk, security investment
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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Apple – is it any different?
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-03-30
- Society, costs, economics, externalities, general, philosophy, security investment, security strategy, short-term gain, usability
The article “Password denied: when will Apple get serious about security?” in The Verge talks about Apple’s insecurity and blames Apple’s badly organized security and the absence of any visible security strategy and effort. Moreover, it seems like Apple is not taking security sufficiently seriously even. “The reality is that the Apple way values usability over ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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