There’s nothing worse than a tragedy that could have been prevented.  My wife and I were recently chatting about how mobile our son has become.  He’s now 22 months old.  He walks, runs, jumps, and most recently has shown an independent side, trying to tackle the staircase on his own.  We’ve installed a gate at [...]

eWeek just posted my byline on How to Protect Data During Financial Mergers and Acquisitions.  Check it out.

If you’re a fan of magic, as I am, you’ll likely appreciate a technique called psychological misdirection.
Many magic tricks rely on physical misdirection - waving a cape or some other distraction that momentarily takes your eyes away from where the “magic” is happening.  And then suddenly there’s a pop, smoke appears, and out jumps a [...]

A few days ago I read a paper on DLP that caught my attention for the wrong reason.  The paper was by a reputable vendor.  It laid out a number of steps to secure confidential data, and generally speaking was “okay” as far as vendor papers go.
Note: I’m deliberately omitting the vendor’s name to avoid [...]

Adrian at Securosis had a post today on Data Discovery and Classification.  He wrote about a conversation he overheard in which an IT executive expressed his dissatisfaction with his data discovery implementation.
As I mentioned in my comment (see below), I generally attribute this sentiment to a failure to properly set expectations.  Ultimately, this is a [...]