Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

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 [...]

McAfee, one of the largest AV vendors in the security space, recently acquired Solidcore Systems, a company that sells dynamic whitelisting technology, in a $47 million dollar deal that would add whitelisting capabilities to McAfee’s current product portfolio. While this comes as no surprise, this move by McAfee is just the tipping point for the [...]

Security experts convened within track sessions at RSA 2009 to address the growing problems revolving around insecure applications plaguing organizations with their vulnerabilities. From the show floor, I took some time to discuss how organizations can best stop unknown and unapproved code from executing on the endpoint by implementing whitelisting procedures such as those offered through [...]

Whether the economy is doing well or not, business leaders are always looking for the technological edge to bump up productivity and get more out of their workers. But new innovations always introduce new risks. The hallmark of a good C-level executive is the ability to balance the benefit of innovation with solid risk mitigation.

Sadly, [...]