Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Today, IBM announced plans to acquire BigFix and we have been asked several times today what this all means to Lumension. So I thought I would weigh in with my thoughts – both from an industry perspective and from Lumension’s perspective, more specifically.
As it turns out, there has been increasing M&A activity in the technology [...]

As we ended 2009 and entered 2010, many predicted that 2010 was poised to go down in history as “the year of insider threats”. It was not a risky prediction to make considering our economic peril and our industries continued unwavering albeit misplaced focus on the gateway rather then endpoint security.
The Worldwide State of the [...]

It was reported yesterday that a group of hackers from Goatse Security compromised AT&T’s server through an open vulnerability to steal over 114,000 iPad 3G owners sensitive personal information which included email addresses and SIM card ICC-IDs.  The attack didn’t effect the iPads themselves, but rather customer information housed on AT&Ts network.  Luckily, no credit [...]

The analogies comparing Android and iPhone OS to the PC and the Mac back in the ‘80s are everywhere on web.  The ground-breaking Mac established an early lead that was soon eclipsed by the comparatively open WinTel platform.  Will the iPhone’s early lead in the smart phone market place similarly give way to the comparative [...]

Ask any IT administrator where their greatest security risk lies and they will tell you it’s at the endpoint. The endpoint has expanded well beyond a desktop to include mobile devices, which allow greater user flexibility and productivity but also increase security risks to your network. Data that once resided on secure centralized servers (and [...]

More than six years after President Bush signed the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA), it appears that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally ready to put the hammer down on the long-delayed Red Flags Rule provision of the law. Designed to prompt businesses that extend credit to customers to pay [...]

Gosh … that was fast. Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new data protection / breach notification law in Washington state and – bang – here comes another one. This time it’s Mississippi that’s finally passed one. By my reckoning, that brings the count to 50 states and territories with data [...]

By my count, 48 of the 55 US states and territories have state data protection / data breach notification laws. The state of Washington recently updated theirs, due to take effect on July 1, 2010. It impacts most businesses with customers in Washington.
Washington State House Bill 1149 was passed in early March, and signed by [...]

The Arizona State Senate recently approved SB 1334, designed to prohibit texting while driving. Violators would face a $50 fine, which would be upped to $200 if they are involved in an accident while texting. Texting (including writing, sending or reading a written message on your cell phone or similar device) while driving will be [...]

With the introduction of the iPad, Apple is again hitting the consumer market with an innovative product that may have security implications for enterprise IT teams.  Although based on the iPhone OS, the use cases identified by Apple for the iPad (especially as an electronic document reader) portend a wide range of business uses that [...]