“Fingerprints are another type of data entirely. They’re used to identify people at crime scenes, but increasingly they’re used as an authentication credential. If you have an iPhone, for example, you probably use your fingerprint to unlock your phone. This type of authentication is increasingly common, replacing a password — something you know — with…
“For several years, TrueCrypt was the gold standard in PC disk decryption suites. That changed nearly 18 months ago, when the individuals who developed the software abruptly quit. The developers declared that the existing software was ““not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues,” provided a final version of the software to decrypt data,…
Google is really doing a lot for apps customers to make it easier to store data in the cloud. Security improvements, and now improvements to make it easier for companies to use Google Drive without losing what they need in terms of Information Governance and eDiscovery, mean that corporations can seriously think about storing data…
Aside from passing off your location from somewhere else to get around blocks, get yourself some sort of VPN to use when you’re on public wifi networks. One that’s a browser plugin sounds like an easy to use one. Anyone installed these browser extensions yet? What do you use to protect your data when browsing…
“Financial data has a finite lifespan because it becomes worthless the second the customer detects the fraud and cancels the card or account. Most forums for such data have a high enough surplus of stolen payment cards that they have fire sales. But information contained in health care records has a much longer shelf life…
“Over the course of the one-hour presentation, the panel covered the following forms of analytics: Email threading. Identification of near duplicates. Timeline analysis. Communications and social network analysis. Fuzzy and advanced search. Concept analysis. Document clustering. Technology assisted review (TAR). What these tools have in common, Noel explained, is that they let us take a…