NIST – Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems
and Organizations
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This publication provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for federal
information systems and organizations to protect organizational operations and
assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation from a diverse set of
threats including hostile attacks, natural disasters, structural failures,
human errors, and privacy risks. The
controls are flexible and customizable and implemented as part of an
organization-wide process to manage risk. The controls address diverse requirements
derived from mission and business needs, laws, Executive Orders, directives,
regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines. The publication describes how to develop
specialized sets of controls, or overlays, tailored for specific types of
missions and business functions, technologies, environments of operation, and
sector-specific applications. Finally,
the consolidated catalog of controls addresses security and privacy from a
functionality perspective (i.e., the strength of functions and mechanisms) and
an assurance perspective (i.e., the measure of confidence in the security or
privacy capability). Addressing both
functionality and assurance ensures that information technology products and
the information systems that rely on those products are sufficiently
trustworthy.”
Helping my students understand the need to design security
and privacy into systems from the beginning.
And to provide some kind of Metric as part of the design!
Uber Settles FTC Allegations that It Made Deceptive Privacy
and Data Security Claims
Uber
Technologies, Inc. has agreed to implement a comprehensive privacy program
and obtain regular, independent audits to settle Federal Trade Commission
charges that the ride-sharing company deceived consumers by failing to monitor employee access to consumer
personal information and by failing to reasonably
secure sensitive consumer data stored in the cloud.
“We don’t care about this case, but…”
Apple, Facebook, Google and other tech giants tell the Supreme
Court to protect cellphone data in a key, upcoming case
… The case before
the nation’s justices is Carpenter
vs. United States, and it stems from a 2011 investigation into a series of
robberies in Detroit. As part of the
probe, law enforcement officials obtained information from nearby cell towers
to determine the whereabouts of one of the suspects, Timothy Carpenter, without
first obtaining a warrant.
As the Supreme Court considers the matter —
including questions as to whether law enforcement must
demonstrate probable cause before it can seek that location data — tech
giants stressed in a new amicus brief that they “do not take a position on the
outcome of this case.”
But the major players that signed it — including
Airbnb, Cisco, Dropbox and Verizon, the only telecom giant to sign — do argue
the need for greater Fourth Amendment safeguards “to ensure that the law
realistically engages with Internet-based technologies and with people’s
expectations of privacy in their digital data.”
I want to play the “sound of doom” when my students open
their exams. Is that cruel? I certainly hope so!
… The YouTube Audio Library launched in 2013 with 1,000+ free
musical tracks.
… The channel now
hosts more than five times that initial number. All are high-quality 320 Kbps audio tracks and sound effects with a royalty-free
license.
Another way to bug my students?
For the Movie Club.
Ticket prices too high? MoviePass gets you into theaters for
$10 a month
… even if
audiences are currently fed up with the movie industry, a company called
MoviePass is betting it can get them back in the seats, offering a movie a day
for only $10 per month.
Founded in 2011, MoviePass is a subscription service that
allows users to see movies in theaters (one movie per day) without buying a
ticket each time. Instead, the company
pays for your ticket when you swipe your MoviePass card.
If it sounds crazy that a company could afford to let
users watch movies every day for only $10 a month, it’s not. The idea was similar to insurance: Not every
user will actually see $10 worth of movies a month, so they end up subsidizing
the users who do.
An iPhone or an Android phone is
required to use MoviePass.
Because research should be cheap? No doubt it’s the paid opinion that will sink
your case.
Free Law Project – We Have Every Free PACER Opinion on
CourtListener.com
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“At Free Law Project, we have gathered millions of court
documents over the years, but it’s with distinct pride that we announce that we
have now completed our biggest crawl ever. After nearly a year of work, and with support
from the U.S. Department of Labor and Georgia State University, we have
collected every free written order and opinion that is available in PACER. To accomplish
this we used PACER’s “Written Opinion Report,” which
provides many opinions for free. This collection contains approximately 3.4
million orders and opinions from approximately 1.5 million federal district and
bankruptcy court cases dating back to 1960. More than four hundred thousand of these
documents were scanned and required OCR, amounting to
nearly two million pages of text extraction that we completed for this project.
All of the documents amassed are
available for search in the RECAP Archive of PACER documents
and via our APIs. New
opinions will be downloaded every night to keep the collection up to date.”
So that’s where my students got the idea!
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