Why Go Corporate? Choices in How to Earn The Big Bucks
May 3rd, 2012
Hacking, like most things, is cyclical. In its earliest days, it was about proving a point; breaking a system that was said to be unbreakable and awarding bragging rights to the one who could do it. What began as an ego boost then became something much different in the 90s. Once hackers figured out how [...]
A Look at April’s State of Cyber Security
May 1st, 2012
April was a busy month for those of us that follow cybersecurity happenings. Tune in to my take on the last 30 days and as always, please share your thoughts on these topics and/or include any other news I may have left out. Download the podcast. Government Action Impacting our Industry CISPA: Yet Another Cybersecurity [...]
February: State of Cyber Security
March 20th, 2012
While January’s State of Cyber Security Report came in the form of a podcast, we decided to change things up a bit this month with a blog post. For the month of February, we are once again reporting on the wonderful and blunder-FULL state of cyber security. With Lumension’s State of Security Awards, we’ll provide [...]
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Data Breach Trends in the Financial Sector
February 23rd, 2012
Financial institutions are, it seems, doing a better job at protecting customer data than most industries. This is the conclusion one reaches when looking at the latest data in the Chronology of Data Breaches from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Overall, the CDB has 2929 breaches in the 2005–2012 timeframe, involving 544,591,013 records (yup, more than [...]
January: State of Cyber Security
February 1st, 2012
January Podcast: State of Security Awards Welcome to the wonder and blunder State of Security Awards where we look to give you the inside track on the hits and misses from the past month in security. From high profile hacks to what feels like a revolving door of controversial legislation, there are plenty of cyber security [...]
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, [...]
A Bright Spot in the Fight Against Cyber Crime
October 17th, 2011
There is no shortage of discussion on today’s global data protection challenges. Our country, the organizations within it and every individual who spends time online is at risk. Tell us something we don’t know, right? Every day we are bombarded with headlines about major data breaches and tragic stories of people losing personal information, but [...]
Calling All CEOs: Cyber Crime Hits Your Bottom Line
September 26th, 2011
Frequent readers of Optimal Security know I have very strong opinions on our nation’s need to improve cyber security at all levels. Information security professionals agree today’s threat landscape pales in comparison to what existed only a few years ago. Increasingly savvy hackers seek to disrupt business and quietly steal everything, from your financial transactions [...]
The New CSO: Cyber Security Officer
August 24th, 2011
It was fellow blogger Paul Henry’s number one prediction for this year. And while I applaud Paul’s spot-on prediction, I’m not happy to admit he was right. Cyber attacks are no longer coming from smalltime pranksters. Today’s attacks are too extensive and intelligent to come from a source of this type. Rather, they are coming [...]
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Application Whitelisting: Key Protection Against Targeted Cyber Attacks
August 1st, 2011
The Australian Department of Defence recently updated their Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions guidelines, and I think it warrants a little discussion. The relatively short (only two pages!) document from the Cyber Security Operation Centre (CSOC) – part of the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) – is based on their experience in operational cyber security, [...]
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