Comments on: Does Geographic Location Matter in Cybersecurity? http://spiresecurity.com/?p=34 Risk and Cybersecurity Analysis Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tate Hansen http://spiresecurity.com/?p=34&cpage=1#comment-30 Tate Hansen Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:36:07 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=34#comment-30 Commercial companies are having some success selling it:
http://www.quova.com/page.php?id=10

A title for one of http://www.the451group.com’s reports is “Digital Resolve’s fraud detection blends IP geo-location and behavior analysis”. I don’t have access to it, but the title purports to the utility.

Geographic information can be useful to answer questions like:
- should anyone be successfully VPNing into our corporate network from IP addresses outside of the US

Maybe the distinction here is between possessing geo-tagged IP data versus using actual maps?

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