Category Archives: Security

Look through your target customer’s eyes


Every day, firms touch intimate parts of our lives, yet fail to engage as partners while harvesting our private bits and bytes. Cell phones track our location. Utilities put smart meters on our homes, but do not show me the … Continue reading

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Insider Threats, Cyber Vigilantes and Change Leadership


According to a post on Banking Information Security Blogs, companies should be paying more attention to insider threat. Many corporate cultures promote the view that threats come from outside. See the blog post: Insider Threats and Cyber Vigilantes. Changing this … Continue reading

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Treat Data As Dollars


One of the things that always surprised me while working with corporate information over the years is the lack of a data classification program in the majority of firms. Working with many well-known corporations around the world, I get to … Continue reading

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Cheaper To Keep Them


An enduring concept regarding customers is that it is cheaper to retain existing customers through good service than to create a situation where you have to continually find new customers because you have alienated the old ones. Security Breach / … Continue reading

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Back To Our Future


This post is one in a series on Privacy & Security, and covers some of the intersections of these domains for those who are not practitioners with in-depth understanding of the associated disciplines. History Points to Privacy’s Future Today’s post explores the history of … Continue reading

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Customer Profiles – Part 2


In my last post, Customer Profiles – Part 1, I described how I used a home-grown form of customer tracking when I worked on Wall Street. The Results Turned out that customer profiling gave the department an excellent way to … Continue reading

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Privacy & Security – Intersection


This post is one in a series on Privacy & Security, and covers some of the intersections of these domains for those who are not practitioners with in-depth understanding of the disciplines. Complimentary Processes Note that I did not frame this post as … Continue reading

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Privacy & The Economy


My first post in this series discussed the confusion felt over the differences between Privacy & Security. This time, we examine privacy and its connection to the economy. Privacy & Trust Issues To understand privacy today and where we may be … Continue reading

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Privacy & Security


We Are Here! The next few posts examine connections and differences between Privacy & Security. The idea was inspired by the many consumers, recruiters, executives, managers, regulators, doctors, some lawyers, even law enforcement or IT, security,  audit staff, in addition to … Continue reading

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