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Secure the future – have a change of mind!

The future of the enterprise can be secured provided that it is properly organized and operated with full understanding of its economics. The current concentration on “profit here and now” is extremely harmful to the survival of the economy of the world as a whole and every given enterprise in particular. Why is that? There ...

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Dump anti-virus and move to secure-by-design?

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?

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?

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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