Computer Security and The Human Factor

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

I recently read The Human Factor by engineering professor Kim Vincente. This is an eye-opening book about the importance of "adapting technology to people" instead of "forcing people to adapt to technology." The field of Human Factor Engineering has apparently been around for awhile, but never has society been in ...

Information Monitoring: Surveil the data not the people

Monday, October 25th, 2004

Thanks to Pacanukeha for his comments on "Go with the flow...", they give me the opportunity to clarify the argument for compliance monitoring. The misunderstanding is probably the fault of the atrocious title of my post, therefore I have changed it - ah, the wonders of the blogosphere, where post ...

Go with the flow – The case for information policy compliance monitoring

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

How do you control the flow of information in your organization? More importantly how to you secure these flows of information? It is impractical to physically protect all of an organization's sensitive information from being copied and stolen, because it is so easy to move information. Lower costs of bandwidth, ...

Another candidate for modern oracle?

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

What happens if you have more at stake than your reputation when tying your horse to a prediction. What if you have money at stake? Or your job? See this interesting article from TIME.com: The End Of Management? Interesting concept that more efficient analysis of strategies and their outcomes may arise ...