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- Take steps to safeguard sensitive data
- What about encryption?If you are really concerned about sensitive data, it must be encrypted.And the encryption s/w needs to be run from a USB keyring (easy with all the free versions of PGP from 2.6 upwards.)But even this isn't safe if thre is a keyboard sniffer installed, your up to...
- Tags: encryption, michael_orton@..., safeguarding data, security, sensitive data, software
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- Secure your Visual C# .NET 2003 application's sensitive data with these techniques
- Learn some techniques for securing your Visual C# .NET 2003 application's sensitive data.This sample chapter, taken from Sams' Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Unleashed, discusses how to protect your data using the facilities available within the .NET Framework and within the operating system itself.Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 UnleashedISBN:...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Unleashed, operating system, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, sensitive data, Visual C# .NET 2003, technique
- Download resources 2005-12-13
- synchronizing offline encrypted files
- I have my mobile users laptops set to synchronize on logon and logoff, and their offline files are encrypted. They have been getting messages when synching "offline files (servernamestorage on servername): unable to make 'filename' available offline on 'networkpath'. Access is denied." When I look in...
- Tags: LauraA, network, network folder, offline File, windows
- Q&A 2005-09-01
- Protect sensitive data with hashing
- This week's .NET newsletter describes how you can protect sensitive data with hashing. Is cryptography a focus for your application development projects? If so, do you protect sensitive data by using hashing or a different method? What do you think about adding salt to hashing algorithms? What are your thoughts...
- Tags: byte, Microsoft .NET, Newsletter Editor, programming, sensitive data, SHA-1
- Discussion threads 2005-03-08
- Vague Ethernet standard exposes sensitive data on many networks
- Researchers from @stake have discovered a vulnerability that has been slowly bleeding sensitive data across networks for more than a decade.The report from @stake, "EtherLeak: Ethernet frame padding information leakage," indicates that the threat derives from the fact that some Ethernet device drivers have been padding small Ethernet packets with...
- Tags: @stake Inc., CERT, device driver, Ethernet, John McCormick, network, null, sensitive data, vulnerability
- Technical articles 2003-01-27
- Lock IT Down: Protect your PCs with these encryption options
- Learn about the encryption options you can use to secure data on your PCDespite your best security efforts, at some point one of your corporate desktops or laptops will be lost or stolen. If the machine belongs to someone in customer service, you may only need to worry about the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Brien M. Posey MCSE, laptop computer, encryption software, desktop, operating system, PC, sensitive data, encryption
- Technical articles 2002-07-24
- Most don't use EFS to protect sensitive data on PCs
- One way to protect sensitive data stored on PCs is to use Windows' Encrypting File System EFS. In a recent Polling Place Quick Poll, TechRepublic asked members if their organizations use EFS to protect their sensitive data.
- Tags: Desktops, TechRepublic Staff, sensitive data, PC
- Technical articles 2002-07-03
Additional Resources
- Data Security Crawler (zip)
- Data Security Crawler is designed to search for files that contain sensitive data: credit card data, social security numbers, bank account information as well as self defined searches. It allows administrators and security professionals to verify that policies regarding sensitive data are being followed and locate sensitive data that is...
- Tags: Bank, Credit Card, Data Security, Data Security Crawler, Social Security, Financial Services, Sales Channel, Security, Government, Sales
- Software downloads 2005-12-14
- Achieving Data Privacy Through Database Encryption
- The growing need to make sensitive information more broadly available to individuals within and outside of an organization greatly increases the opportunity for malicious activity and misuse. Perimeter and point security solutions cannot adequately protect sensitive data at rest from these threats, nor do they satisfy today's increasingly stringent audit...
- Tags: Audit, Privacy, Encryption, IBM Corp., CoreGuard Information Protection System, Financial Accounting, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Data Classification with Oracle Label Security
- Data classification is common in government organizations where the need to protect classified data is critical to national security. However, today the need for data classification extends beyond traditional usages to the protection of personally identifiable information PII and other sensitive information collected from sources such as medical records and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Classification, Data Classification, Oracle Label Security, Security
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Meeting Regulatory Compliance Challenges With Data Management Tools Solutions
- This paper will take an in-depth look into those issues and take a look at what the IBM tools suite has to offer to help accomplish some very tedious tasks that have taken on new priorities. There are several tools available from IBM to help in many of these areas...
- Tags: Look, Tool, IBM Corp., Data Management, Productivity, Regulatory Compliance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2006-09-19
- On Privacy Preservation Against Adversarial Data Mining
- Privacy preserving data processing has become an important topic recently because of advances in hardware technology which have lead to widespread proliferation of demographic and sensitive data. A rudimentary way to preserve privacy is to simply hide the information in some of the sensitive fields picked by a user. However,...
- Tags: Privacy, Association For Computing Machinery, Data Record, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2006-08-23
- O2 (exe)
- Store your sensitive data in a safe environment with O2. O2 Project provides a encrypted environment in which you can store your personal data. O2 can be used as an address book or as a password wallet, storing your sensitive data as a encrypted file. You can select the encryption...
- Tags: O2 Plc., Maurizio Basaglia, O2 Project
- Software downloads 2008-01-15
- CD Secure (exe)
- CD Secure prevents pirated copying and unapproved accessing your sensitive files and data in compact disc. The sensitive files are invisible to unapproved users or software, but the owner or the owner 's program of the sensitive files can access them freely. With CD Secure, you should not worry about...
- Tags: CD, CD Secure
- Software downloads 2005-05-11
- Taking Action to Protect Sensitive Data
- Download this report from the IT Policy Compliance Group to read the results of a study it conducted to determine the extent of data loss in companies today. The findings may alarm you. For example, 68 percent of organizations are experiencing six losses of sensitive data annually while only about...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Loss, Data Loss, Security
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Data Security Is Less Expensive Than Your Next Liability Lawsuit: Best Practices in Application Data Security
- Security threats, government regulations, and the possibility of fines levied by government agencies, have led organizations to implement proper measures to secure applications and databases within a production environment. With applications and databases behind firewalls combined with real-time intrusion software, these reasonable security measures help prevent data security exposure of...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Best Practice, Data Security, Security
- White papers 2006-02-01
- HR Confidential: How Can Rights Management Help?
- In most businesses today, sensitive HR information such as employee medical and financial records, payroll information, and private personal data can only be protected by limiting access to the networks or computers where the information is stored. Once users have access to this data, there are no restrictions on what...
- Tags: Human Resources, Payroll, Rights-management, Information, Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Laptop with personal data of 98,000 recovered
- UCB not teaching data security?Where I work, losing a laptop that contains data about even one of our clients can ruin our reputation. We may as well close our doors at that point. So we don't store sensitive data on our laptops. And we go to the...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2005-09-16
- Cost-Sensitive-Data Preprocessing for Mining Customer Relationship Management Databases
- With worldwide industry deregulation, telecommunications and financial services customers face an ever-growing number of choices. So, more customers are switching their service providers. This phenomenon is called customer churning or attrition and is a costly problem for these industries. Customer retention data is cost sensitive. For example, if one predicts...
- Tags: Industry, Customer, Customer Retention Data, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Data owners aren't always the final word in data protection
- Security Override ControlsTom,Not all companies have the controls and policies in place that you're referring to. To most, even larger firms, this is more or less a pipe dream. I met with a F50 firm just this week and their issue is that they are spinning their wheels...
- Tags: data protection, markb@..., data owner, security
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
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