Over the holiday weekend I watched some news on the Mumbai attacks.  One of the reports included an interview with a retired FBI agent experienced in investigating such attacks.  He argued that the attackers were knowledgeable of the layout and defenses of the places they were attacking.  In fact, in his opinion the attackers knew [...]

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 [...]

Network World published an article today on DLP, Security Breaches: 3 Tools for Preventing Data Loss. 
Here’s my comment on that article:

Clarification on Data Security and DLP
By DaveMeizlik on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 7:58am.
DLP is really a subset of Data Security, which includes technologies like device control and encryption. I think perhaps that point was missed here, [...]