California’s Orange County sets for­mal stan­dard for court admis­si­bil­ity of dig­i­tal sur­veil­lance data. The impact of this is broad-​​sweeping rul­ing has impact on any and all sys­tems which col­lect data which would come to be con­sid­ered as evi­dence before the courts.

For those of you not aware — there was a very impor­tant rul­ing out of the Orange County Appel­late called Cal­i­for­nia v Khaled which set new evi­dence stan­dards for “Unat­tended evi­dence col­lec­tion devices and sys­tems” in use as to what is admis­si­ble before Cal­i­for­nia Courts. While the core focus on this would be speed-​​​​trap type cam­eras this […]

This is a seri­ous ques­tion. Where does a legal source of time in the US come from? There are any num­ber of Gov­ern­ment Agen­cies so which one is the real one? More impor­tantly will the direct use of the Gov­ern­ment Time Ser­vice cre­ate endur­ing evi­dence? If you have any doubt of this look into the pain and […]

Time for today’s Smart­Grid Cer­tichron is mov­ing rapidly into mass-​​​​trust sys­tems for util­i­ties with time as their con­trol fac­tor. We see time in the power-​​​​grid as a strong offer­ing we pro­vide trust through. Smart­Grid sys­tems need a trusted third party to insure (and ensure) their trans­parency to sup­port the new rate sched­ules being devel­oped to enable operations […]

So here goes… time is the basis of most all trust processes in one form or another so it above all other things must be prov­able. “Imag­ine your trust-​​​​anchor being tied to a per­ma­nently expir­ing CRL which indexes every sec­ond. ‘Poof’ — you now under­stand what is so complex…about prov­able time-​​​​keeping.” No seri­ously, that’s it. The […]

Guide for Assess­ing the Secu­rity Con­trols in Fed­eral Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems and Orga­ni­za­tions: Build­ing Effec­tive Secu­rity Assess­ment Plans See the new release of NIST’s CSRC and its SP800-​​​​53A brief on build­ing secure com­put­ing sys­tems and oper­at­ing them! http://​csrc​.nist​.gov/​p​u​b​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​s​/​d​r​a​f​t​s​/​8​0​0​-​5​3​A​-​r​e​v​1​/​d​r​a​f​t​-​s​p​8​0​0​-​5​3​A​-​r​e​v​1​-​f​p​d​.​pdf “In accor­dance with the pro­vi­sions of FISMA, the Sec­re­tary of Com­merce shall, on the basis of stan­dards and guide­lines developed […]

FFIEC Press Release See the new FFIEC guid­ance on the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti Money Laun­der­ing (AML) The Fed­eral Finan­cial Insti­tu­tions Exam­i­na­tion Coun­cil (FFIEC) today released the revised Bank Secrecy Act/​​Anti-​​​​Money Laun­der­ing (BSA/​​AML) Exam­i­na­tion Man­ual. The revised man­ual reflects the ongo­ing com­mit­ment of the fed­eral and state bank­ing agen­cies to pro­vide cur­rent and con­sis­tent guidance […]