News: W3C Standard for a Database Engine Within the Browser – Cool, but Will it Create More Security Holes? The Fix for the SSL Renogiation Flaw Has Been Finalized Ecryption Keys Will Contunie to Get Bigger (Note that This Refers to RSA Asymmetric Keys – 128-bit Symmetric Keys are Still Strong Google Chrome Takes the…
In Part 4 of this series, we asked the question: “Where does the data live?” Sensitive data that is at rest must be protected by access controls and by encryption, according to its classification and security policies. Data does not stay in one place, though – it does not even stay in the many places…
Once data has been classified and we know what types of sensitive data a system stores or processes, we have to locate the data we want to protect. Data exists in one of two states – it is either at rest or in transit. We have to ask two questions: 1) Where does the data…