Five Irrefutable Laws of Information Security
September 20th, 2010
Last week, Forrester held its annual Security Forum 2010 and discussed, among other topics, the need for consistent controls on our endpoint devices to ensure continuous security and network protection. In his keynote entitled What is the Most Significant Vulnerability We Face Today, Malcolm Harkins, Chief Information Security Officer at Intel Corporation cited an example [...]
Ben Franklin’s Endpoint Security Advice
September 2nd, 2010
Ben Franklin dished out some pretty good security advice in his day. In fact, he was one of the most well known security professionals of his time. Many of you may realize it was Franklin that coined the saying ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ but what you might not know [...]
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.
Simple Steps To Reducing Your Insider Risk
March 26th, 2010
Recent economic times have lead to increasing insider risk. Learn about the latest best practices in how to reduce your insider risk without impacting productivity.
Moving from a Threat Centric to Trust Centric Endpoint Management Model
October 19th, 2009
There’s been a lot of talk about what role whitelisting will play in the endpoint protection suites of the future. Opinions dissent about what it will take for whitelisting to become easily implementable for users and whether it will replace or augment the traditional anti-virus approach. Whatever the opinion, I think most folks can agree [...]
A Big Mac Attack
May 18th, 2009
Like most readers, I’ve been using computers for a long time. For me it started with the PLATO project at the University of Illinois (Go Illini!!), with its cool touch panels. Then punch cards on mainframes. Then micros, minis … and finally the DOS-based PC. [Remember the dual-floppy drive 5150?] Yup, those were the days [...]
Administrators Beware of Spyware Guard 2008
May 5th, 2009
So here you are, an accomplished network administrator… you understand the risks to your enterprise. You have managed to wrestle local administrator rights away from your user community. All systems are running current versions of a popular antivirus software. So your user community can browse the Internet with gleeful abandon. Think again. Joe User while [...]
A Sophisticated Approach to Whitelisting
May 1st, 2009
Security experts convened within track sessions at RSA 2009 to address the growing problems revolving around insecure applications plaguing organizations with their vulnerabilities. From the show floor, I took some time to discuss how organizations can best stop unknown and unapproved code from executing on the endpoint by implementing whitelisting procedures such as those offered through [...]
Nasty Virus / Trojan Lurking in the Wild
April 27th, 2009
With Conficker still fresh on our minds, a new potential menace has emerged. The remote access capability of a Trojan that spreads like a Virus – W32.Virut.CF (Symantec) or W32/Scribble-A (Sophos) is poised to wreak havoc on networks over the coming days. Embedding itself deep within infected machines, the Trojan will make it difficult to [...]
A Message to Our Valued Customers: Leveraging Your Lumension Investment to Optimize Your TCO
March 12th, 2009
In this video I discuss how customers can get greater value out of their existing Lumension investment to optimize their total cost of ownership.







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