Recent Postings for "Cyber Security" Area of Expertise.
Lawrence Dietz Appointed to Cyberspace Law Committee
Esq. Lawrence D. Dietz, TAL Global’s General Counsel and Managing Director, Information Security, has been appointed to the Cyberspace Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California.
Continue Reading →Contracting Tips – Prepare to Negotiate with IT Vendors
The following comments and tips should be helpful to customers as they prepare to negotiate with IT vendors, especially with cloud services vendors. TAL Global does not provide legal advice, but we are delighted to work with your General Counsel to assist in the process or help with vendor contract problems.
Continue Reading →TAL Global Leading Edge InfoSec Presentations at RSA Conference 2012
Mr. Johnathan Tal, TAL Global’s President and CEO, and the company’s General Counsel and Managing Director, Information Security, Mr. Larry Dietz will both lead Peer2Peer Sessions at the upcoming RSA Conference 2012, February 27 to March 2 the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
Continue Reading →Larry Dietz on IT Security: Shady Rat Revisited
In August we published a commentary on Project Shady Rat, a research project orchestrated by McAfee (now part of Intel). We recently attended a meeting of the Silicon Valley Information Security Association, hosted by McAfee and where the features speaker was Vincent Weather, Sr VP of Engineering & McAfee Labs who previously was a senior research with Symantec.
Vincent had some interesting things to say which I would like to pass along.
Richard Clarke: “Cyber Weaknesses Should Deter U.S. from Waging War”
Former top Presidential adviser, Richard Clarke, said the United States’ economic system is vulnerable to a retaliatory cyberattack should the United States attack a country such as Iran or North Korea.
Continue Reading →Larry Dietz, TAL Global’s General Counsel and Managing Director of the Information Security Division, analyses the significance of Operation Rat, and points out lessons that may be learned from it.
Continue Reading →Bank Responsible for Customers’ Phishing Attack Loses
A recent verdict by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan appears to mean that banks are essentially responsible for loses incurred to customers if the banks fail to prove adequate anti-phishing protections as part of their overall cyber security procedures.
Continue Reading →Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) is exploiting your adversary’s IT resources without them knowing. In this case the purloined RSA technology can be used to impersonate legitimate users and exploit that access through browsing, selective downloading and perhaps even modifying stored information.
Continue Reading →L-3 Communications is apparently the second defense contractor actively targeted recently with RSA SecurID hacks.
Continue Reading →Recent News & Posting:
- Screening machines to detect nonmetallic bombs not tested
- The Conversation: Time to Mobilize for Cyberwar
- TSA Idled $184 Million in Screening Equipment, U.S. Says
- TSA screeners allegedly let drug couriers through LAX for cash
- Concerns Over Cargo Terror Continue
- Montana airport gets rare TSA concession: Private screeners
- Al-Qaida in decline, but threats to US multiply