Bill Blake Speaks On Avoiding Data Security Disasters
On December 16, 2010 Bill Blake spoke about how to avoid data breaches and leaks in your office during a Webinar sponsored by Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS). With all the recent attention about sensitive information showing up on WikiLeaks, Bill discussed how you can avoid threats to your company’s confidential documents.
Bill gives some insight into the history of WikiLeaks and how a breakdown in security in the US government gave an insider the opportunity to steal information and make it available to the world. He shows how the perfect storm of means, motive, and opportunity crystalized into a large embarrassment and potential harm for the US government. Preventing a similar occurrence takes a combination of policy, process and technology. Bill shows some simple techniques and technologies to help you control and protect your most important information so this doesn’t happen to you.
Click here to listen to the webinar.
WikiLeaks and Cyber Security by Jon Oltsik
Jon Oltsik of the Enterprise Strategy Group is one the data security consultants that I follow and respect. He put across a rational view on WikiLeaks and Cyber Security, I suggest that you read his recent blog post on this topic.
You can access this blog post here….
Wikileaks: How To Prevent Your Organization From Being The Next Victim
The recent Wikileaks revelation has revealed that protecting confidential data is not about whole disc encryption or simple file encryption, but persistent security such that only those who are entitled to access the documents can do so, and no one else.
Above all, you can track and trace the usage of those sensitive documents no matter where they are located. I truly believe the US government documented comments and conversations that are all now in the public domain, could have been prevented if this type of security was employed.
Organizations should really take a look at what Enterprise Rights Management has to offer and how it can protect the reputation of an establishment be it in the public or private sector, but with the likes of Wikileaks and the insatiable appetite for curiousity it is now becoming an essential tool for information security.
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