Comments on: Network Transactions http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/03/network-transactions/ A weblog dedicated to educating the community on security threats that matter Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:59:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: R. Kerns http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/03/network-transactions/#comment-8619 R. Kerns Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:16:53 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/03/network-transactions/#comment-8619 I think the quote "My Service Provider friends have spent quite some time and effort to build scalable, robust and price appropriate access service networks, and customers have responded by putting everything and anything that could be connected - from the photos in a photo album to the personal account history of 2 million households - onto the network" is very, very true in the fact that a very key word was left out of the description of these networks. Secure! Although I think companies and government have come to realize that Security is something to implement up-front it is still not being done adequately. I think the last estimates I saw were around $182 per lost record for a data breach. One company spent $24 million in a single month alone on credit monitoring after three data breaches. Identifying/Estimating the data architecture and security needed to protect it up front is not an option anymore, it is a must do! I think we will really see a change soon when things like HIPAA start getting enforced via fines and more enforceable policy in regards to disk encryption for mobile devices comes out (the white house OPM sent out a memo a while back in regards to that, but it was more of a should instead of a shall...) -EW I think the quote “My Service Provider friends have spent quite some time and effort to build scalable, robust and price appropriate access service networks, and customers have responded by putting everything and anything that could be connected - from the photos in a photo album to the personal account history of 2 million households - onto the network” is very, very true in the fact that a very key word was left out of the description of these networks. Secure!

Although I think companies and government have come to realize that Security is something to implement up-front it is still not being done adequately. I think the last estimates I saw were around $182 per lost record for a data breach. One company spent $24 million in a single month alone on credit monitoring after three data breaches. Identifying/Estimating the data architecture and security needed to protect it up front is not an option anymore, it is a must do!

I think we will really see a change soon when things like HIPAA start getting enforced via fines and more enforceable policy in regards to disk encryption for mobile devices comes out (the white house OPM sent out a memo a while back in regards to that, but it was more of a should instead of a shall…)

-EW

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