Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

There’s no way this ends well.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported (sub. req’d) that Starwood Hotels filed suit against Hilton Hotels and two former employees, Ross Klein and Amar Lalvani, for corporate espionage, theft of trade secrets and unfair competition. Klein was the former President of Starwood Luxury Brands Group, and Lalvani was formerly Senior [...]

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 [...]

Lumension has authored a new and highly topical tract on the problem of insider data theft entitled “New Insider Threat Emerges in the New Economy.” In it, the authors discuss how the economic woes of 2008, which are sure to stretch out well beyond, have amped up the issue of insider data theft, be it [...]

CEOs and CIOs might not know it yet, but there is a security squall headed right in their direction. Over here at Lumension, we’re referring to it as the “Perfect Storm” because, like the 2000 movie, this one is brewing on three fronts that are converging to a tempest the likes of which most of [...]