Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Ask any IT administrator where their greatest security risk lies and they will tell you it’s at the endpoint. The endpoint has expanded well beyond a desktop to include mobile devices, which allow greater user flexibility and productivity but also increase security risks to your network. Data that once resided on secure centralized servers (and [...]

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 [...]

We’ve been discussing how unprepared organizations in the U.S. are for cyber attacks, and now there’s new research that backs up these concerns and illustrates the inherent weaknesses that must be addressed if we’re to adequately safeguard our information and vital systems.
A new Ponemon-Lumension survey on the worldwide state of the endpoint shows that companies [...]

Gartner recently released a report on operationalizing endpoint security – on how signature-based anti-malware is losing effectiveness in the face of an overwhelming volume of threats. I have a few thoughts about the report’s findings and what organizations can do to better protect their endpoints.
As the Gartner report made clear, signature-based anti-malware is losing its [...]

I recently sat down with Brandon Dunlap, Managing Director of Research at Brightfly, to get his perspectives on the biggest challenges around IT risk and how organizations can get better at managing risk. Brightfly is an advisory services firm specializing in the collision between IT operations, information security, physical security, and auditing. The firm conducts [...]

In his opening keynote to the crowd at RSA 2009, Art Coviello explained the importance of establishing a culture of collaboration in order to ensure the success of the information security industry.  In this video clip from RSA 2009, I wanted to take the opportunity to to expand on this theme to discuss how important 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 [...]

In this video I discuss the changes in the threat landscape that has resulted in the need to protect against the unknown with Whitelisting (Application-Control).

Why start another security blog? That was the question we asked ourselves at the start of this project.

As data breaches and malicious security viruses and attacks plague global business networks, we wanted to provide an open forum to encourage two way conversations with our ecosystem:  our customers, partners, key influencers, and IT users about the [...]