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 I mentioned in my last post, after quite a bit of overseas travel recently, I observed a few trends that apply globally – at its core, what trends are driving technology trends in IT environments, today?
In addition to the platform-centric approach being firmly planted both here and overseas and the efficiency of agents on [...]

A few things I learned while on the road in the past couple of weeks:
1.    The platform-centric approach is firmly planted both here and overseas;
2.    The efficiency of agents on the endpoint is increasingly under the microscope;
3.    Application whitelisting is truly hitting a global tipping point;
4.    Compliance costs continue to be an issue; and
5.    Never [...]

Over the last several months, I’ve been wrestling over a few issues that I think are converging to create an inhospitable business environment. Issues such as our company’s heritage as a venture-backed company, where we sit as a nation from a data security perspective; and my own view, that US intellectual property is at an [...]

You’ve probably heard about three recent security-related events that attracted lots of attention. In January, Google announced that it suffered a “highly sophisticated” and targeted hacker attack—originating from China— against its corporate network. In April, an ill-fated false-positive antivirus signature was pushed out that accidentally removed a key part of Windows from machines. And a [...]

We’ve reported on the need for a non-toxic public sector/private sector bridge to help counter cybersecurity threats, and it’s encouraging to see signs we’re finally moving away from all the chatter to actually put a structure in place. The government needs to work with business to come up with effective strategies to keep information safe, [...]

As both a guest speaker and attendee at the Security Innovation Network’s fourth annual IT Security Entrepreneur’s Forum, I found the conference provided a great deal of insight on important cybersecurity issues. Two panels I found particularly relevant were: “An Industry and Government Perspective on the Emerging Cyber Threats, Risks and Vulnerabilities” and “Moving Forward [...]

Last week, I attended two security-related events in San Francisco. I spoke on the topic of the converging endpoint on a panel at America’s Growth Capital’s 6th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference. And I walked the floor at the RSA Conference, where Lumension exhibited. Here are my thoughts on the key [...]

Recently Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, presented the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and painted a much starker picture of the current state of cybersecurity in the country compared to his testimony last year.
According to Blair, the United States confronts a dangerous combination of [...]

The appointment of Howard Schmidt as the nation’s new cybersecurity coordinator is good news. Howard is one of the leading authorities on information security, and he has years of experience following security issues, threats and technologies. I know Howard and I am certain he is qualified to head up the country’s efforts to improve cybersecurity.
But [...]