Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

It might be the start of summer, but there was little sunshine from Microsoft on Tuesday, as the company warned users that they have released ten security bulletins — three of which are critical, seven are rated important and all of which include an explicit or possible restart warning. The impact will be felt enterprise-wide, [...]

Over the last several months, I’ve been wrestling over a few issues that I think are converging to create an inhospitable business environment. Issues such as our company’s heritage as a venture-backed company, where we sit as a nation from a data security perspective; and my own view, that US intellectual property is at an [...]

Lumension talks security with Charles Kolodgy of IDC at RSA about the evolution in endpoint management and security and what role new and emerging technologies will play in managing risk. Also, future predictions and trends.

As businesses move at a rapid pace to integrate social media as part of their overall corporate strategy to engage, build brand awareness and drive thought leadership, unfortunately, security has taken a back seat leaving businesses wide open to these Web 2.0 threats. The use of Web 2.0 has opened new risk channels for the [...]

Over the past week it has been interesting to see the cinema box office and IT security press both dominated by love triangles.  The cinematic version features incumbent, sparkling vampires verses upstart, over-sized werewolves - both vying for the affections of a morose damsel in distress.  The IT version?  Security sites and blogs are all [...]

So, last week I wrote something about Windows 7 adoption – hope you found it interesting and useful. Today, I want to focus on its sister release, Windows Server 7 Server 2008 R2 (which I’m call WS2K8 R2).
WS2K8 R2 is the latest version of Server 2008, which was originally released in early 2008. As such, [...]

Windows 7 has arrived on the scene with much hoopla. Understandably, many IT folks have greeted it with some trepidation. Here are my thoughts on what you should consider before migrating to this new platform.
No. 1: Windows 7 is better than XP, which is now already eight years old. While Windows 7 may not be [...]

Twitter has aggressively and successfully focused on developing features and building applications to drive user numbers, and it has grown in leaps and bounds internationally.  But, this DDoS attack should give business pause to consider how much effort they should continue to put into adopting and embracing Twitter.  Does Twitter have the security model to [...]

The iPhone community has been impatiently waiting for the release of iPhone 3.0 software since Apple’s WWDC event in early June.  Now that it is here, they should upgrade ASAP!  Along with the upgrade comes an Apple security announcement that there are 38 separate vulnerabilities in the previous versions of iPhone OS for iPhones and [...]

On Wednesday, Brad Arkin, Director of Product Security and Privacy at Adobe, announced that Adobe would be joining in on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday party by scheduling security update releases on the first Tuesday of every quarter ( http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/).  I can hear a collective sigh of relief and a communal “It’s about time!” issuing out of [...]