Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security vs. Operations
April 18th, 2012
Time and again, we’ve heard IT teams lament over how security continues to challenge the operational aspects of an organization. And these issues will not likely resolve themselves. While there isn’t a silver bullet that will “fix” this situation, there are best practices that will definitely improve security and increase operational efficiency. For some tips, we [...]
Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security and Operations: Back to the Basics
April 12th, 2012
We’re back with part II in our podcast series on security versus operations with Mike Rothman, president and analyst with Securosis. In this post, Mike and I will discuss getting back to the basics of endpoint security, as small and mid-size organizations should not even consider employing in-depth cyber security measures until they have the [...]
A 2011 RSA Security Conference Retrospective – Vendor Buzzword Analysis
February 21st, 2011
The 2011 RSA Security Conference came to an end last week, and this year, the most memorable thing for me was the San Francisco dim sum. I didn’t see or hear anything ground breaking on the exhibit floor, but there were definitely a few notable shifts on the “security buzzword” scene. From my perspective, “compliance” [...]
Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Critical Infrastructure Protection
July 8th, 2010
Last week I participated in an interesting roundtable discussion with Michael Rasmussen from Corporate Integrity and my fellow blogger Paul Henry. We were discussing how to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure – a topic which is relevant to organizations which own or operate critical infrastructure (which, according to the 2009 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (PDF), [...]
Lessons from the Road…Tokyo, London, Sydney: Part II
June 23rd, 2010
As I mentioned in my last post, after quite a bit of overseas travel recently, I observed a few trends that apply globally – at its core, what trends are driving technology trends in IT environments, today? In addition to the platform-centric approach being firmly planted both here and overseas and the efficiency of agents [...]
Lessons from the Road…Tokyo, London, Sydney: Part I
June 16th, 2010
A few things I learned while on the road in the past couple of weeks: 1. The platform-centric approach is firmly planted both here and overseas; 2. The efficiency of agents on the endpoint is increasingly under the microscope; 3. Application whitelisting is truly hitting a global tipping point; 4. Compliance costs continue to be [...]
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 [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
The Case for Endpoint Operations and Endpoint Security Convergence
May 24th, 2010
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 [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
Waving The Red Flag—Are you Ready for Another Regulation?
May 18th, 2010
More than six years after President Bush signed the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA), it appears that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally ready to put the hammer down on the long-delayed Red Flags Rule provision of the law. Designed to prompt businesses that extend credit to customers to pay [...]
Federal Cyber Security Outlook for 2010
May 3rd, 2010
Steve Antone, Vice President of Federal Solutions Group provides insights into the Federal Cyber Security Outlook for 2010 survey.
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