The Security Eunoia

On April 1 Sweden passed the EU directive called IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive) into law. That same day, internet traffic dropped by 30% according The Local, an online newspaper. The law will allow courts to order ISPs to hand over information that identify suspected illegal file sharers. The belief is that commercial infractions of intellectual property law within the EU will eventually be criminalised.

So what is security monitoring? It could be any of security (information, event, information & event) monitoring. Whatever name you choose to call it I’m referring to any kind of monitoring with the help of software and with the primary aim of detecting security policy violations possibly before it is too late to act. With any breach of security policy, there are cyber observables and an outcome.

Its been widely reported here, here and here (and oh here too) that Apple went ahead to hire an IBM executive Mark Papermaster to head Apple’s iPhone and iPod division even though IBM had threatened Papermaster with a lawsuit. Now a US federal court judge in New York has ordered Papermater to stop working for [...]