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Security Bites Podcast: Dude, where's my perimeter?
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This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Dan Geer, vice president and chief scientist for Verdasys.
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Recently, 4.2 million customers of Hannaford Supermarkets had their credit card and debit card information exposed to outside criminal hackers. Students at Harvard University also had their applications to grad school exposed and made available on BitTorrent. Is the problem at the perimeter? Or can data breaches such as this be addressed in some other way?
Dan Geer, vice president and chief scientist for Verdasys, argues that security officers should be less concerned with antivirus and network firewall protection, traditional mainstays of the IT department, and focus on providing more protection for the contents of the files themselves. As corporate perimeters disappear, as more and more employees work from home or use laptops or mobile devices in the field, IT departments have even less control over the actions of individual employees--unless, as Geer argues, they start to secure the data itself.
Geer is the author of a new book, Economics and Strategies of Data Security, which talks about the dramatic shift from infrastructure protection to information protection. It's the first of several, this one offering the why of data protection, with plans for others to argue the how and what happens when you implement these ideas.
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