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ENISA Cloud Computing Risk Assessment

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Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance

The ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) released the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment document.
The document does well by including a focus on SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) because, as the report says, “Given the reduced cost and flexibility it brings, [...]

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Congressional data mining and security

Image by moonhouse via Flickr“By slipping a simple, three-sentence provision into the gargantuan spending bill passed by the House of Representatives last week, a congressman from Silicon Valley is trying to nudge Congress into the 21st Century. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) placed a measure in the bill directing Congress and its affiliated organs — including [...]

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Small business and assessment of IT risks

According to a study released by European Union ENISA, Small-to-Medium-Sized (SME) enterprises require extra guidance in assessment of IT security risks of their assets.
Agency also established that in the first implementation it is improbable that SME can utilize a risk assessment & risk management approach without external assistance and simplified information security approach was extremely [...]

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Economic turmoil and BCP

Due to economic insecurity all the warning signs are pointing that this year is going to top the record for information security and privacy incidents. Organizations may not be in a position to take business limiting risk and bypass security fundamental like Business Continuity Planning (BCP). During this economic uncertainty organizations have to pay more [...]

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Cyber threats and overall security assessment

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In the past when senior management (execs) needed to understand the financial implication of cyber threats and their exposures, they turned their questionnaires toward IT for relevant answers. In other words IT risk assessment was the answer in the past to understand the financial implications of cyber threats. The IT risk assessment is [...]

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