{"id":6,"date":"2007-02-18T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-02-18T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T13:31:53","slug":"better_security_through_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/better_security_through_bi.html","title":{"rendered":"Better Security Through BI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Computerworld has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=282376&amp;source=NLT_PM&amp;nlid=8\">interesting article<\/a> about the difference between trust and security. A county coroner gave out his logon information to a confidential police 911 system so that newspaper reporters wouldn&#8217;t bother him each time they needed information. This resulted in, for example, a drug informant being badly beaten up when his name was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The information only came to light after one of the reporters complained that he didn&#8217;t have access to the site, but could have been revealed much earlier through better reporting: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Eventually, an IT staffer checked Web site logs and discovered that the site was accessed more than 50 times in two weeks from computers at a newspaper office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of all the departments in the organization, IT should be able to implement retrospective network&nbsp;security analysis relatively easily &#8212; there are typically existing tools, it would only require a single&nbsp;user license, they have the expertise, etc. <\/p>\n<p>So do organizations do this? Why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld has an interesting article about the difference between trust and security. A county coroner gave out his logon information to a confidential police 911 system so that newspaper reporters wouldn&#8217;t bother him each time they needed information. This resulted in, for example, a drug informant being badly beaten up when his name was revealed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[160,204,956],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}