Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
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 [...]
Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Illinois’ New Data Protection Law
August 24th, 2011
News today, courtesy of Brendon Tavelli at Proskauer’s Privacy Law blog via the always excellent Office of Inadequate Security, of a new data breach notification bill just signed by Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois. Interesting to me both personally (Go Illini!!) and professionally, this bill (HB 3025) amends Illinois Public Act 097-0483 (the Personal Information Protection [...]
It’s Time to Act
January 24th, 2011
January 28, 2011 is Data Privacy Day. Analyst Eric Ogren from The Ogren Group sat down with Lumension CEO Pat Clawson to ask some key questions around what this day means for the industry and how it has made an impact since Congress implemented it two years ago. Both Eric and Pat get down to [...]
iPad Security – Does the Enterprise Care?
April 1st, 2010
With the introduction of the iPad, Apple is again hitting the consumer market with an innovative product that may have security implications for enterprise IT teams. Although based on the iPhone OS, the use cases identified by Apple for the iPad (especially as an electronic document reader) portend a wide range of business uses that [...]
Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Is FIPS 140-2 Fatally Flawed?
January 13th, 2010
So, upon my return to the Valley of the Sun and after figuring out where our new offices (let alone the coffee machine and bathrooms) were (Lumension has moved, in case you’ve not heard – 3rd floor with a seriously sweet view), I settled down to see what happened over the holidays. First up – [...]
Who Owns Your Data in a Social World?
October 27th, 2009
Over the past months it has been interesting to watch the furor over certain End-User License Agreements and the definition of data ownership. Most draconian was the idea that once posted by a user, the data transferred ownership to the social networking site. This of course has huge implications to an individual user, especially for [...]
“Micro-Botnet” – The Cybercriminal’s Choice for Enterprise Data Stealing?
September 28th, 2009
Last winter and spring we all watched with interest the headlines heralding the spread of the Confickr botnet. The under-reported part of the story was that fact that well-patched enterprise networks were largely unaffected by Confickr’s bloom. In some circles, this seems to have lead to a complacency or belief that botnet infections are not [...]
Matt Mosher - SVP Sales
Federal Desktop Core Configuration Bodes Well for All
August 10th, 2009
For the past two years, I have been closely watching the genesis and implementation of a very interesting program mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of all U.S. government agencies called the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC). The idea behind FDCC was simple: through an OMB developed standard configuration set-up, organizations can manage endpoints [...]
Is Intellectual Property Covered in Your Data Security Plan?
July 14th, 2009
When we discuss the protection of data residing in the enterprise, there are some common data types that seem to always be the focus of the discussion: credit card data, patient data, customer lists, financial reports, etc. One class of data that is not always part of the discussion but should be is intellectual property [...]
Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Chris’ Security Cache Contemplation
May 12th, 2009
Miscellaneous interesting news / tidbits I’ve run across whilst trying to keep up with / clean out my RSS feed … Targeted Attack. It was widely reported last week (see here and here and here) that a convicted Swedish hacker was charged with the 2004 attack on Cisco Systems (where he stole source code), NASA’s [...]
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