Time to Get Serious About Upping Your Cyber Security Game
January 9th, 2013
The welcoming in of a New Year always seems to entice once-a-year prophets to dust off their crystal ball and offer predictions for the coming twelve months. The security community is not immune. I’ve read with interest the efforts of various security pundits, consultants, vendors, etc. to provide guidance for their readers, partners, and customers. [...]
Two Bets on 2012
December 12th, 2011
Yet another year has nearly come and gone but information security remains as interesting, challenging and relevant as ever – if not more since organized crime and foreign states have eclipsed the traditional lone hacker. Looking back, the endpoint continues to be the focus of criminal organizations. Case in point, out of 86 Microsoft security [...]
2012 Endpoint Security Trends
December 5th, 2011
What’s in Store for 2012? A new year brings a new IT security landscape and smart IT pros are planning ahead. To find out more about what 2012 will look like and what IT departments can be doing now to prepare, Lumension asked three experts to make their predictions and offer practical steps on what [...]
What Security Companies Can Expect in 2012
December 5th, 2011
‘Tis the season for predictions….and here’s an obvious one. Security manufacturers definitely have their work cut out for them in 2012. (Also listen to the podcast with Paul Henry and Randy Franklin Smith.) IT has big concerns about what the coming year will bring. In our newly-completed State of the Endpoint survey conducted by the [...]
2012 State of Endpoint Report Is In – Embrace Change to Win on Security
November 17th, 2011
It seems like only yesterday when I was excited to share the results from our 2010 report on the state of the endpoint. This week, we are releasing data from our third annual State of the Endpoint study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and I have to admit, this year’s data is even more intriguing, [...]
2010 Predictions Redux- 2nd Half Predictions and Looming Threats
June 22nd, 2010
As we ended 2009 and entered 2010, many predicted that 2010 was poised to go down in history as “the year of insider threats”. It was not a risky prediction to make considering our economic peril and our industries continued unwavering albeit misplaced focus on the gateway rather then endpoint security. The Worldwide State of [...]
Looking Through the Crystal Ball of Security
March 19th, 2010
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.
Insights from America’s Growth Capital and RSA Conferences
March 9th, 2010
Last week, I attended two security-related events in San Francisco. I spoke on the topic of the converging endpoint on a panel at America’s Growth Capital’s 6th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference. And I walked the floor at the RSA Conference, where Lumension exhibited. Here are my thoughts on the key [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Winning the Malware Battle: The Move Towards Whitelisting
December 7th, 2009
We recently sat down with Nigel Stanley, Analyst at Bloor Research to discuss how whitelisting has evolved over the years and where the endpoint security market is heading in 2010. Q: What role does whitelisting technology play in protecting a company’s vital information and managing critical risk? A: Application whitelisting, which is the notion of only [...]
The Worldwide State of the Endpoint: What Organizations Should Pay Attention to in 2010
November 17th, 2009
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 [...]
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