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RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie
Released on 2013-11-15 00:00 GMT
| Email-ID | 3462948 |
|---|---|
| Date | 2005-03-14 23:55:23 |
| From | jones@stratfor.com |
| To | mooney@stratfor.com, nimesh@vincera.com, puru@vincera.com |
That is correct, XXX will be the login ID for the account. IP accounts
will use the IP address instead of the login name.
Alex Jones
Phone: 512-744-4080
Fax: 512-744-4334
Email: jones@stratfor.com
Strategic Forecasting, Inc
www.stratfor.com
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About Stratfor
Stratfor is a private intelligence firm providing corporations,
governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that
enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and
security issues vital to their interests. Stratfor’s clients, who include
Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies, use Stratfor as a
unique risk-analysis tool to protect assets, diminish risk, compete in the
market, and increase opportunities.
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From: Puru Agrawal [mailto:puru@vincera.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:48 PM
To: Nimesh Porbandarwalla; Alex Jones
Cc: Michael Mooney
Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie
XXX will be the login id for the account, right?
It is important that for returning visitors, we see the same value as we
would see if they were logging in, which let’s us match their activity to
their “external id” – their login. Of course, we don’t want the cookie to
contain their password.
This way, we can use the same user / account matching criteria for when
they physically log in as well as when they are simply recognized by the
system as a returning user.
For IP accounts, the value can just be their IP address, since we’ll never
see them “log in” per se.
Puru Agrawal
Phone: 512.694.5346
Fax: 512.443.9326
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From: Nimesh Porbandarwalla
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:09 PM
To: Alex Jones; Puru Agrawal
Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’; ‘Jim Warren’
Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie
Thanks Alex
Nimesh Porbandarwalla
Phone: 512 443-8749 Ext 107
Email: nimesh@vincera.com
Vincera Inc.
Customer Touch @ Your Fingertip
www.vincera.com
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From: Alex Jones [mailto:jones@stratfor.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:07 PM
To: Nimesh Porbandarwalla; Puru Agrawal
Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’; ‘Jim Warren’
Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie
Sure thing. It will be
Name: Stratfor[Account]
Value: XXX
With XXX being the name of the account.
Alex Jones
Phone: 512-744-4080
Fax: 512-744-4334
Email: jones@stratfor.com
Strategic Forecasting, Inc
www.stratfor.com
……………………………………
About Stratfor
Stratfor is a private intelligence firm providing corporations,
governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that
enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and
security issues vital to their interests. Stratfor’s clients, who include
Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies, use Stratfor as a
unique risk-analysis tool to protect assets, diminish risk, compete in the
market, and increase opportunities.
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From: Nimesh Porbandarwalla [mailto:nimesh@vincera.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 12:12 PM
To: Alex Jones; Puru Agrawal
Cc: Michael Mooney; Jim Warren
Subject: RE: Sensitive Accounts Cookie
Hi Alex
Thanks for sending us information about the sensitive accounts cookie,
could you similarly send us the information about the IP authentication
successful login cookie on the .biz website so that we can finish the
model for capturing usage on your websites.
Thanks
Nimesh Porbandarwalla
Phone: 512 443-8749 Ext 107
Email: nimesh@vincera.com
Vincera Inc.
Customer Touch @ Your Fingertip
www.vincera.com
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From: Alex Jones [mailto:jones@stratfor.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:02 AM
To: Puru Agrawal; Nimesh Porbandarwalla
Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’; Jim Warren
Subject: Sensitive Accounts Cookie
I will set a cookie with the following values for accounts that should not
be tracked by Vincera:
Name: Stratfor[Track]
Value: No
Alex Jones
Phone: 512-744-4080
Fax: 512-744-4334
Email: jones@stratfor.com
Strategic Forecasting, Inc
www.stratfor.com
……………………………………
About Stratfor
Stratfor is a private intelligence firm providing corporations,
governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that
enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and
security issues vital to their interests. Stratfor’s clients, who include
Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies, use Stratfor as a
unique risk-analysis tool to protect assets, diminish risk, compete in the
market, and increase opportunities.
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From: Puru Agrawal [mailto:puru@vincera.com]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 5:09 PM
To: Alex Jones; Nimesh Porbandarwalla
Cc: Michael Mooney
Subject: RE: Weekly Status Report
Hello Alex,
We can go ahead and deploy the system without the complete list … if we
can know what the cookie value or url parameter is that tells us to ignore
the activity for a certain visitor. In fact, we don’t ever need to see
the list of which companies to ignore.
Also, if we have access to the database, we can generate the list of
database fields.
Puru Agrawal
Phone: 512.694.5346
Fax: 512.443.9326
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From: Alex Jones [mailto:jones@stratfor.com]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:46 PM
To: ‘Jim Warren’; Nimesh Porbandarwalla; Puru Agrawal
Cc: ‘Michael Mooney’
Subject: RE: Weekly Status Report
Just a few quick notes regarding Nimesh’s status report, I’ve placed my
comments below the different points in blue.
—–Original Message—–
From: Nimesh Porbandarwalla [mailto:nimesh@vincera.com]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:43 PM
To: Jim Warren
Cc: Puru Agrawal
Subject: Weekly Status Report
Hi Jim
Below is this week’s status report that previously I had been sending to
Victoria
Pilot Status:
1. We are waiting on Alex to finish implementing cookie changes for IP
authentication on the .biz website.
At this point I am awaiting a comprehensive list of the user IDs
associated with each of the 430+ IP Blocks. As this is an extensive list I
may not receive it until end of day Tuesday. Is there any reason that this
is a showstopper for set up?
2. We are waiting on Alex to finish implementing cookie changes for
ignoring sensitive accounts.
This will be available at the same time as the above cookie
implementation.
3. We are waiting on Alex to provide us with the database fields for the
new premium website so that we can capture the appropriate fields from
the database.
I was under the impression that your gaining access to the database would
allow you to choose which fields to pull. I will gather a list for you by
Monday.
4. We are waiting on Michael to provide us with login(s) to your
databases so that we can get a data feed of the appropriate fields,
this item is dependent upon item 3.
5. We have nearly completed building the model for your website and our
awaiting for items 1, 2, 3 and 4 to have the model completely
finished.
6. Alex and Wes [Vincera] need to decide an hour slot to do a test run of
our filter deployment on your test box located at Stratfor.
That should be Michael and Wes
7. Wes has sent to Michael the filter files for the Apache module on
Monday and we our waiting for Michael to compile the filter file and
make sure that the filters compile successfully.
8. Michael is planning to do the deployment of your new equipment –
firewall, racks etc Saturday, March 12th.
9. Our new equipment has arrived and we are in the process of installing
our software on these servers, we can be ready to deploy at your
co-location as early as Sunday, March 13th dependent upon items 6, 7
and 8.
Issues & Concerns:
We had planned to be deployed and started collecting usage data on your
websites by this weekend (Sunday, March 13th). Due to delay in the items
(1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8) listed above we will probably deploy and start
collecting data sometime this next week (Tuesday, March 15th – Sunday,
March 20th). As we have to collect data for a minimum of 7-10 days we will
not have reports available to you till (Wednesday, March 23rd – Monday,
March 28th) depending upon when the item listed above get completed and we
deploy and start collecting usage data.
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email or
call me.
Thanks
Nimesh Porbandarwalla
Phone: 512 443-8749 Ext 107
Email: nimesh@vincera.com
Vincera Inc.
Customer Touch @ Your Fingertip
www.vincera.com