Articles by Steven.Davis
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Security through simplicity: The fantasy sports scandal and IoT
Fantasy football wagering has exploded. It may be imploding as a insider security scandal shakes things up. The solution? Adding blind systems and escrows to our 'security things' toolkit.
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Shades of Greynets: The Internet of Secure Things
The plummeting costs of computing is leading to ubiquitous computing with the Internet of Things, security could be the next beneficiary of this revolution.
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How to fight denial of service – choose your battles, save your dollars
Denial-of-service attacks are probably the scariest online attack a business faces. Not because of the amount of damage done (data breaches are typically much more costly), but because there is so little you can do about them. Instead of fighting the attackers, why not look for ways to make the business resilient in face of an attack? After all, your job is to make sure a business can do what it needs to do... and what a business needs to do is serve its customers and find new ones.
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Marketing plus security equals profit – Disney’s anti-counterfeiting strategy
Most security strategies try to stop the bad guys. Disney turned things around and won big by turning Chinese consumers into part of its anti-piracy solution. Good business security is not about stopping hackers or doing 'security,' it is about saving and making money... and making money is very nice indeed.
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My NSA security violation
To secure is human. We all make mistakes. Especially in security. I made a one early in my career at NSA. My error, but how much attention do we make to helping our employees and customers do the right thing instead of punishing them for errors?
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