To whom it may concern: I want to let you know a few things I know about you. Please don’t worry, as I am sure I will forget everything in a few minutes. However, I implore upon you, please be more aware of how you are placing your personal information at risk….. – I know [...]

It has been almost two years since I concluded my initial series of blog entries on “Tales of a Social Engineer” (http://tinyurl.com/ZPR-Tales).  In that intervening period, it was my hope obsessive longing that data breaches precipitated by social engineering would be curtailed.  It was my hope potentially misguided expectation that there would be calls to [...]

MacDonnell Ulsch is the CEO and Chief Analyst at ZeroPoint Risk Research, and the author of the book “THREAT! Managing Risk in a Hostile World.”   Espionage is escalating in a troubled global economy. The secret of success in innovation is much like the breaking of the enigma code.  Cracking the code often requires multiple [...]

One of the things I continue to observe with many of my clients, and it never ceases to amaze me, is the overall lack of awareness to information security and properly protecting information/data.  The number of breaches that we continue to see reported in the media today is staggering and seems to be never-ending.  Please [...]

By MacDonnell Ulsch and Michael J. Sullivan It seems as if cloud computing is the next big thing. Embraced as a critical growth strategy by leading U.S. companies, cloud computing makes a compelling argument in the ailing global economy. The attraction of cloud computing is that companies can expand operations using someone else’s technology, and [...]

FFIEC Keynote Addresses Emerging Cloud Risk, Organized Crime, Compliance Connecting the dots between organized crime, terrorist financing, narcotics trafficking, trade secret theft, human trafficking, money laundering, social media, mobile media, and cloud computing illustrate an emerging, disturbing trend: the progression of increased regulatory, legal, financial, reputation, and cascading risk. Please click here for the full [...]

In an effort to best serve our clients and website readers, we have now joined Twitter! Our existing blog (http://www/zeropointrisk.com/blog) continues to be focused on detailed discussion of issues related to the global risks which are associated with information integrity compromise.  These discussions are intended to aide executive management teams, audit and risk committees, and [...]

Are you, like many others, considering a cloud computing strategy? The shorter-term economics of cloud computing are compelling. Certain agencies within the U.S. federal government expect to cut web operating costs in half by migrating to the cloud. In the face of such financial savings, who wouldn’t sit up and take notice? But so much [...]

Writing a white paper on the security of Cloud computing, and think of the different SaaS currently available.  A thought I keep having is Amazon was the first SaaS.  Not their EC2, but the buying/selling services.  They provided the hardware and software environment for hundreds of vendors to sell their products at Amazon.com.  More to [...]