Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Miscellaneous interesting news / tidbits I’ve run across whilst trying to keep up with/clean out my RSS feed …
Cyberczar. Lots of discussion about the “Cyber Czar” appointment in the US (apparently the EU is contemplating something similar) … who is it going to be? [some are suggesting Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's cybersecurity division] what [...]

As those of us in the security industry anticipate the soon-to-be-appointed Cybersecurity Czar, I took some time to pull together my thoughts on his/her first 100 days in this newly-created role and the critical first steps that I’d recommend be tackled in those first 100 days, to ensure success.
While I’ve been pretty vocal on the [...]

A Q&A with Pat Clawson and Mike Jacobs
As the nation’s cyber defenses continue to face attack by sophisticated, well-organized efforts to disrupt vital systems and steal critical, confidential information, our government is facing greater pressure to create a governing body that can establish and enforce mandates to protect critical networks and systems. Cyber criminals have graduated [...]

It didn’t take a long study of the show floor at this year’s RSA conference to find that the security vendor community has left the big picture themes of security conferences of the past in the rear-view mirror. Clearly, there was no major new product category such as a NAC or a DLP or an [...]

First of all, I wanted to applaud your swift action to hire Melissa Hathaway to examine the nation’s cyberdefense strategies and move forward with a better plan. I think I speak on behalf of many within the information security field in saying that this is a positive step in securing the information infrastructure within the [...]

Considering that over 90 percent of cyber attacks exploit known security flaws, vulnerability management has never had greater importance than today when it comes to managing risks.  It remains the single most effective security defense a company can undertake to manage its greatest amount of risk with the lowest possible cost.
While the current economic conditions [...]

It’s hard to know what to think about the security travails at one of our premier research institutes, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. Now operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS, which is a consortium made up of UC Berkeley, Bechtel and others) for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), [...]

As Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president, we here at Lumension have been turning our attention to a recent report on a topic near and dear to our hearts. Written by the CSIS Commission for the incoming president, the report gives an overview of U.S. government and infrastructure’s current state of information [...]