Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Thanks are in order to the Munich Security Conference) for the yearly publishing of their terrific videos covering the Munich Security Conference on the organization’s YouTube channel.
via wehatetowaste.com, original photo credit: Living Green Magazine
via the inimitable Mike Rothman, comes this tour de force research effort targeting of all things - Data Security. In which, the Securosis organization takes on what to protect and preserve. Today's Must Read.
'“You can’t buy a bag of chips in Harlem without being surveilled,” Mitchell said. CryptoHarlem has been teaching the community how to use encryption and other methods to prevent their digital activities from being surveilled and used against them. “People say this is the next frontier of civil rights,” Mitchell said.' from the Motherboard post via YouTube
New - heretofore unreleased - statistical model can predict numbers of so-called cyber-intrusions in the Enterprise (whether that Enterprise be Military, Government or Business - apparently). By United States Army Research Laboratory research scientists Lawrence P. Knachel, Alexander Kott, Nandi O. Leslie and Richard E. Harang, the paper is slated for publication in a special release within the Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation during claendar year 2018. A pre-release copy can be garnered via Sagepub Journals. Key quote (and pertinent to information security modelers:
"Several of the predictor variables that were recommended to the researchers by subject matter experts turned out to be lacking in influence or even misleading. For example, SMEs felt that the extent to which an organization is visible on the Internet, as measured for example by the number of records found related to that organization on the popular Google Scholar, would be a significant predictor of intrusion frequency. However, it turned out that such visibility alone is not a useful predictor of successful intrusions," Leslie said." - via ARL