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Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:33 AM

Is Kai Axford Speaking at TechEd 2008?

The short answer is YES! However, I'm not going to be confined to a single breakout room like I was last year. (ESPNism: " You cannot stop him, you can only hope to contain him .") If you remember, we had such a huge amount of folks wanting to get into
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:51 PM

RSA 2008 - Day 2: Windows vs. Linux, PLUS Insider Threat Experts, and The Parties

Day 2. I'm a but wore out since I was up into the wee hours trying to get my new video blogging mess figured out. The process that I thought would be (encoding and uploading).....wasn't. But the part that I thought would be easy (quality of the HD stream).....was.
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Monday, April 07, 2008 2:28 PM

Where's Kai? RSA Conference 2008!!

Well...if you're an IT Security Professional, you owe it to yourself to make the journey to the annual RSA Conference at least once in your life. It's the world's biggest security conference and many a great new announcement is made here. This year, it's
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:09 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IX) - Oldies, but Goodies

Well....I received an absolutely unexpected and pleasure of an email from one of the excellent speakers over at the The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies about my blog posts! I'm not sure they were reading or simply scanning for references
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:08 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VIII) - Phone Home + The Power of the PMP!

" Hey IT Guy , c heck out my cool phone! I can use it as a modem for my laptop! " Ever heard that from one of those end users? I'm sure you have. Sounds much better than " Check out my cool wireless bridge I've been using to exfil sensitive data out of
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Friday, November 16, 2007 4:36 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VII) - Moving Data Out of Your Organization

Well, if you've been following along...we talked about who the insiders are and the metrics behind economic espionage. We've discussed why they do it and how they get the data. But I know this probably hasn't been very technical for most of you. Today
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:32 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part VI) - Social Engineering

If you've been with us the past few months, we've been talking about the who and why of economic espionage/insider threat. Starting today....we're about to make all you wannabe James Bonds out there understand the how. A New Degree in Engineering Still
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Monday, November 05, 2007 1:02 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part V)

I've done a lot of work in the past few weeks trying to get you to truly understand the person we've dubbed "The Insider". We've discussed who they are, and why they do what they do. Today I'm going to be looking at exactly what it is these insiders are
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Friday, November 02, 2007 1:16 AM

Microsoft IT Security and Data Leakage: TechNet Radio Edition

I've chatted with our internal MSIT data leakage expert, Olav Opedal in private as I've put together my session on Insider Threat. Recently I had the opportunity to interview Olav a few weeks ago for a public TechNet Radio session, titled " How Microsoft
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:20 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part IV)

After traveling the past 4 weeks non-stop, with barely enough time to figure out what time zone I'm actually in....I'm back with another installment of Insider Threat. Today we'll discuss the motivators for why this is happening. Let's get started! "Why
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:43 PM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part III)

Today I'm going to discuss exactly who the these "insiders" are. As I mentioned earlier, the book " Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying and Theft " by Eric Cole and Sandra Ring has some terrific analysis and classification.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:15 PM

Oh Canada!

You know you've made it when you land on the Canadian IT Pro User Blog . I just returned from a whirlwind tour of Western Canada where I hit 4 cities in 4 days (Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria) and then had less than 20 hours at home before
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Saturday, September 29, 2007 12:35 AM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part II)

In the last post, I touched upon the reasons that Insider Threat is often ignore by corporations and businesses (yes.....this probably means you.) I also discussed the reasons why this threat is of much greater than concern than some 17-year old kid in
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:07 AM

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat

This is currently an area I've been focusing on for the past month or so. I've been doing a lot of reading, fact finding, research, etc. around the topic of data leakage that occurs when users are essentially stealing data from within your business. This
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