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Cyber Security Is A Hopeless Failure; What’s Plan B?
January 25, 2010
Federal judges may shift direction and require Hanover Farms Inc., TD Ameritrade and UniCare Life & Health Insurance Co. to make class action payments for exposing third party information that can open the door to ID theft. Most web sites, software and operational procedures are hacker friendly and repairing them will take years. Plan B, is to attempt to stop theft by using Data Loss Prevention and Encryption tools. Unfortunately, some IT departments are rejecting these tools as too demanding.
June 11, 2008
Why EMC? (1) EMC’s RSA Division is the best known encryption firm in the world; and data encryption is the next frontier in preventing data theft. (2) EMC makes data storage and encrypted data requires substantially more storage as encrypted data cannot be compressed.