Going on the Offensive—Standing up against Cyber-Attacks
July 28th, 2011
After the explosive March hack that infiltrated over 24,000 key files, Pentagon officials are ready to change their strategies regarding U.S. cyber security. While the incursion was one of the worst single incidents the U.S. Department of Defense has ever seen and may impact the design of the U.S. weapons system, it’s just one in [...]
Is the PlayStation® Network Meltdown a Security "Black Swan"?
May 3rd, 2011
The intensive and comprehensive nature of Sony’s PlayStation® Network (PSN) meltdown has made a strong impression on me. Loss of massive amounts of sensitive customer data, long-term network unavailability, probable class-action law suits, and an unprecedented avalanche of bad PR – this is not your normal “our network got hacked” situation. It made me wonder, [...]
Playing the Security Game? Think Before Simply Clicking ‘Renew’
April 26th, 2011
If your organization is anything like the companies we’ve been speaking with, then you know first-hand the headache and ongoing challenge that the rising cost of malware has created. In fact, 48 percent of organizations recently reported an increase in their IT operating expenses, according to the 2010 Ponemon Institute study commissioned by Lumension. Significantly, [...]
2011 Has Potential to be a Really Bad Year
April 20th, 2011
If we look at how 2010 ended there is perhaps good reason for IT security pros to already be nervous in 2011. According to the end of year report from IBM X-Force, at least 44% of all vulnerabilities disclosed in 2010 had no corresponding patch by end of year. Not only do we have to [...]
Evolution to Intelligent Whitelisting : Part 3 : AV and Application Whitelisting, An Unlikely Couple
September 30th, 2010
Part 3 of a three-part Q&A podcast series with Pat Clawson, Chairman and CEO, Lumension and Patrick O’Grady, Technology Writer, Phoenix Business Journal
Evolution to Intelligent Whitelisting: Part 2: Four Whitelisting Misperceptions to Abandon
September 20th, 2010
Part 2 of a three-part Q&A podcast series with Pat Clawson, Chairman and CEO, Lumension and Patrick O’Grady, Technology Writer, Phoenix Business Journal
Evolution to Intelligent Whitelisting: Part 1: Not Your Father’s Whitelisting
September 13th, 2010
A three-part Q&A podcast series with Pat Clawson, Chairman and CEO, Lumension and Patrick O’Grady, Technology Writer, Phoenix Business Journal
Whitelisting: Fill in the Gaps Where Traditional Efforts have Failed
May 27th, 2010
You’ve probably heard about three recent security-related events that attracted lots of attention. In January, Google announced that it suffered a “highly sophisticated” and targeted hacker attack—originating from China— against its corporate network. In April, an ill-fated false-positive antivirus signature was pushed out that accidentally removed a key part of Windows from machines. And a [...]
Think New: Intelligent Whitelisting
March 26th, 2010
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.
Will 2010 be the Year of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Browsers?
March 23rd, 2010
It certainly seems that in 2010, a month doesn’t go by without hearing about yet another zero-day threat affecting a popular browser software. In the first quarter of 2010, we already have seen new zero-day issues in the most popular browsers in use today: Microsoft reported yet another new zero-day issue with Internet Explorer, and [...]
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