Security Pie

Wikileaks here, Wikileaks there, (information) leaks are everywhere. Now that the site is planning to release leaked documents from “a major US bank”, security professionals might start to think about “leak prevention” in line with “loss protection”.

ILP anyone?

Yahoo! is reducing costs and sending people home. In my opinion they could have saved a lot of money just by not sending all those proxy letters and tons of other items to my address. (Yea, I have some few shares). As expected, the internal presentation explaining how to cut employees was leaked to the Internet. I guess that the Internet Protocol (IP) doesn’t really work that well when the Do Not Forward bit is defined as text on a Power Point.

As a second thought, maybe there’s an opportunity for a new start up to create the technology to embed ‘Do Not Forward’ text into packets that can never leave the network.

So Aaron got the sack and articles regarding the threats of a slugging economy and recession era (such as this) are common.   Organizations should protect sensitive data at all times based on their risk management strategy. Unfortunately, such times help us to understand the risk better. I’m not saying that the damage of leaked presentations (BTW, I think that the content itself is good, but the context is awful) is on Yahoo!’s top risk matrix, but I do think that organizations should set their strategy for data protection.