Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

In this presentation, learn about the latest innovations that operationalize application whitelisting across dynamic business environments and deliver more effective endpoint security above and beyond stand-alone anti-malware.

Recent economic times have lead to increasing insider risk. Learn about the latest best practices in how to reduce your insider risk without impacting productivity.

There’s been a lot of talk about what role whitelisting will play in the endpoint protection suites of the future.  Opinions dissent about what it will take for whitelisting to become easily implementable for users and whether it will replace or augment the traditional anti-virus approach.  Whatever the opinion, I think most folks can agree [...]

Like most readers, I’ve been using computers for a long time. For me it started with the PLATO project at the University of Illinois (Go Illini!!), with its cool touch panels. Then punch cards on mainframes. Then micros, minis … and finally the DOS-based PC. [Remember the dual-floppy drive 5150?] Yup, those were the days [...]

So here you are, an accomplished network administrator… you understand the risks to your enterprise.  You have managed to wrestle local administrator rights away from your user community.  All systems are running current versions of a popular antivirus software.  So your user community can browse the Internet with gleeful abandon.  Think again.  Joe User while [...]

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 [...]

With Conficker still fresh on our minds, a new potential menace has emerged.  The remote access capability of a Trojan that spreads like a Virus - W32.Virut.CF (Symantec) or W32/Scribble-A (Sophos) is poised to wreak havoc on networks over the coming days.  Embedding itself deep within infected machines, the Trojan will make it difficult to [...]

In this video I discuss how customers can get greater value out of their existing Lumension investment to optimize their total cost of ownership.

We’ve hardly stepped into 2009, yet it has already become clear that we’re in for another rocky year when it comes to headline data breaches, botnets, and social networking threats. Just look at our Annual Report and Threat Predictions for 2009. It is enough to make a security guy like myself shake his head because [...]

Has the anti-virus market become obsolete? It seems that some network administrators are opting out in favor of newer, more flexible options.
Brent Rickels, senior vice president of First National Bank, headquartered in Valley Mills, Texas, recalls that when the license renewal for his company’s previous anti-virus tool was getting close, it just seemed that the [...]