by Jesper Kråkhede, Sweden
Posted in Business, Security Architecture on Sep 4th, 2008
I attended a very interesting workshop today that you most probably will hear more of in a few months from now. Afterwards I had a discussion with a few colleagues regarding security and visible effects of security. We discussed the usage of visible deterrents with it-security. When deploying physical security the deterrent is sometimes the […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Aug 31st, 2008
I had a very interesting and partly agitated discussion with a firewall vendor just recently regarding the future for firewalls when looking at security. From his point of view firewalls was the ultimate in security tools with increasingly better protection every year. Even if I understand his argument my argument was more regarding the needs […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Aug 22nd, 2008
Today I had an interesting experience too many have had before me. When I opened my mailbox I had a rather rude mail stating that my web hotel had been hacked. It seemed that I was luckily enough to not have been affected but still as I am not aware of the disaster recovery routines […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Jul 20th, 2008
In San Francisco a guy has been arrested for manipulating and changing the WAN at his work. Apparently the newly employed security manager noticed that unauthorized changes were made and called in the police who after a few weeks found the guilty person. By the looks of it the city has to replace hardware for […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Jun 17th, 2008
The world has changed. Gone are the days when a virus could be fun. Now it is terrorism, bank robbery, fraud and other not so nice incidents happening on the internet. It is business as usual for organized crime. What have started to disturb me just a tiny bit is the attacks on information infrastructure […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Jun 15th, 2008
When I am out in the world telling my customers about security I always point out that the threats have changed during the last years. It is not an adolescent trying to hack anymore, it is organized crime trying to steal your money. In a Swedish article today a bank had a break-in not in […]
Posted in Security Architecture on May 12th, 2008
I had a really interesting conversation with a customer a few days ago regarding databases on a web server. Their security department said that no databases was allowed to reside on any web server are and had to be protected behind firewalls. Therefore they had consolidated all databases into a database farm and only allowed […]
Posted in Security Architecture, Speaker on Apr 15th, 2008
So have this day ended and the event was very interesting and inspiring. We made deep dives in many topics and it was very interesting to have the different views on privacy from Sweden, Germany, Israel, Ireland and more. It turned out that Swedes as me in general have a more open view of surveillance […]
Posted in Security Architecture on Apr 13th, 2008
This is a very sad day. In Sweden 10-year old Engla was found dead and a 42-year old have confessed murder. Read the sad story here . What have this to do with security architecure? When looking at the background for the 42-year old we see (according to the news) that he was convicted for […]
Posted in Compliance, Security Architecture on Mar 4th, 2008
Last week there was a credit card incident in Sweden at a large retailer. Sometime during the day a few cashiers noticed something strange with the EFT-terminals. A further inspection revealed that the terminals had been manipulated to capture and send the credit card information to a wireless unit. The police said that persons behind […]