Re: Opinions sought...How much information is to much to "give away"?

[Kevin Kasner <tkevink () gmail com>]

Many thanks to all who gave me their opinions.  I really appreciate it.  

I ended up sanitizing and generalizing the statements (for example,
"we are backing up in a heterogeneous environment, including Novell,
Windows and AIX"), but I left in the sentence "We have separate
solutions for our Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Remote Access and
network monitoring" since the point the paragraph was trying to make
was that I had not opted to spend $^3 on a dedicated encryption
appliance even though I may have done so for the other parts of my
system.

Again, many thanks for your time and opinions.

Kevin.

On 6/29/05, Kevin Kasner <tkevink () gmail com> wrote:
> My backup vendor recently interviewed me for an article because I'm
> using their encryption package.  They have sent me the article for
> review, so I still have a chance to change how much information is
> disclosed...
>
> In the course of the article, several things are revealed about my environment:
> 1)  My backup solution & what types of data are encrypted in my back
> ups (ie: customer data, AD/LDAP info, databases, server O/S's), and
> that I have off site storage of tapes
> 2)  My OS mix (ie: Windows, ...)
> 3)  the fact that I have "separate solutions" for firewall, IDP,
> remote access, and network monitoring
> 4)  Who we are and what city we are located in.
>
> So...I'm looking for some honest opinions on whether I'm giving away
> too much info.
>
> Thanks!!