Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Last week, the House passed the Data Accountability and Trust Act bill that would provide a law for notifying potential victims of identity theft whenever their electronically stored personal information is exposed. It’s now on to the Senate for their review and vote. If it does pass through the Senate, it will have implications across [...]

The IT security community has been buzzing about a new zero-day exploit for Adobe that is reportedly in the wild.  It is now being investigated by Adobe and initial details are available on Adobe’s blog.
The malicious PDF files are reportedly being used in targeted attacks with the PDF being sent as an email attachment and [...]

We recently sat down with John Dunn, editor of Techworld, to discuss how whitelisting has evolved over the years and where the endpoint security market is heading in 2010.

Q: You were writing about whitelisting seven years ago, how close do you think whitelisting is to becoming a mainstream security technology?
A: It won’t happen quickly beyond [...]

Paul Henry, Forensics and Security Analyst, provides his insights in this December Patch Tuesday Security Briefing.

We recently sat down with Nigel Stanley, Analyst at Bloor Research to discuss how whitelisting has evolved over the years and where the endpoint security market is heading in 2010.

Q: What role does whitelisting technology play in protecting a company’s vital information and managing critical risk?
A: Application whitelisting, which is the notion of only allowing pre-determined [...]

Much has been said over the past few years about the convergence of IT security and IT operations. Most companies look at this convergence from an optimization standpoint; hoping to increase security, achieve greater compliance, and reduce IT risk. Many larger companies, however, still operate under a siloed approach, working primarily with point solutions for [...]

Over the past week it has been interesting to see the cinema box office and IT security press both dominated by love triangles.  The cinematic version features incumbent, sparkling vampires verses upstart, over-sized werewolves - both vying for the affections of a morose damsel in distress.  The IT version?  Security sites and blogs are all [...]