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• Well, maybe I’ll get a great refund in in 2009

  Apparently the IRS just realized that they had about 1,800 unauthorized web servers attached to their corporate network !!! Now I’m glad to hear that their CIO is working to get them removed, but sounds to me this is a great opportunity for them to implement... Posted Sep 09 2008, 11:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, Threat Assessment, IT Pro, Electronic Discovery, Insider Threat

• The FBI Celebrates it’s 100th Anniversary!

  I had the distinct honor this week, of attending the Bureau’s 100th Anniversary celebration event here at the Dallas FBI Field Office . (I’m the one that’s not blurry in the picture on the left) The event itself was very well done and the speeches by... Posted Jul 23 2008, 09:56 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Video, Events, Security Management, Jack Bauer, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, FBI, Crime

• 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... Posted Apr 17 2008, 05:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Microsoft, Security Management, Funny Stuff, Physical Security, IT Pro, People, Partners, Small Business Security, Insider Threat, Tech-Ed 2008

• 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... Posted Apr 10 2008, 12:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Security Management, User Groups, IT Pro, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat, RSA 2008

• 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... Posted Apr 07 2008, 03:28 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Security Management, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage, Travel, Insider Threat, RSA 2008

• 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... Posted Jan 17 2008, 05:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Books, Microsoft, Security Management, Threat Assessment, Physical Security, IT Pro, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Dec 05 2007, 06:08 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Podcasts, Security Management, IT Pro, Social Engineering, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Nov 13 2007, 03:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, Social Engineering, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Nov 05 2007, 02:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Security Management, Physical Security, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Nov 02 2007, 02:16 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Podcasts, Security Management, People, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Nov 01 2007, 05:20 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Books, Microsoft, Security Management, Physical Security, Social Engineering, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Oct 04 2007, 01:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Books, Microsoft, Security Management, Physical Security, People, Industrial Espionage, Insider Threat

• 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... Posted Sep 18 2007, 09:07 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security Management, Physical Security, Industrial Espionage, Compliance, Insider Threat