Chances are Someone is Trying to Steal Your Organization’s Information
March 29th, 2012
Chances are someone is trying to steal your organization’s information. Instead of expending all your effort in defensive posture controls, there are ways to actively seek out and disrupt attempts to steal your organization’s information. This is called counter intelligence and the exploits of the good old cold warrior, George Smiley, should be your hero. [...]
The Year I Started Being Afraid
February 21st, 2012
I’ve been in IT since I was a kid. I was a real, stereotypical nerd. While other computer nerds were learning to program games, I turned up my nose at their childish efforts and learned database programming because at 12 I actually wanted to write accounting software. I know, I know, weird. Anyway I say [...]
Social App Security – An Oxymoron?
October 18th, 2010
The recent Wall Street Journal investigation on the Facebook privacy breach begs a fundamental question: Can a “social application” be secure? This is a question bigger than just Facebook. Popular mobile communications platforms such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have also struggled with this as of late. Here is the core conundrum – platform [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
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 [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
Six Critical Elements to Achieve Economies in FISMA Compliance
February 3rd, 2010
We recently sat down with Michael Rasmussen, President and Risk & Compliance Advisor at Corporate Integrity, to discuss how public sector organizations can meet the requirements of FISMA in a cost-efficient but effective manner. Q. How are public sector organizations adapting to FISMA compliance and why is this critical? A. Federal agencies are trying to [...]
“Security” on the WSJ Front Page – A Cautionary Tale
January 15th, 2010
Having a security problem on the front page of the Wall Street Journal is never a good thing for the companies involved, but it can be instructive for everyone else.Unfortunately, many will ignore the high-profile coverage of China’s spear phishing attack on Google, Adobe and over thirty other businesses.They will think that this is a [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
Does the Data Accountability and Trust Act Bill Have Wings?
December 16th, 2009
Last week, the House passed the Data Accountability and Trust Act bill that would provide a law for notifying potential victims of identity theft whenever their electronically stored personal information is exposed. It’s now on to the Senate for their review and vote. If it does pass through the Senate, it will have implications across [...]
Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Why Endpoint Security is Not Always Black or White
December 10th, 2009
We recently sat down with John Dunn, editor of Techworld, to discuss how whitelisting has evolved over the years and where the endpoint security market is heading in 2010. Q: You were writing about whitelisting seven years ago, how close do you think whitelisting is to becoming a mainstream security technology? A: It won’t happen quickly [...]
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 [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
New Era of Collaboration Between IT Operations & Security
December 1st, 2009
Much has been said over the past few years about the convergence of IT security and IT operations. Most companies look at this convergence from an optimization standpoint; hoping to increase security, achieve greater compliance, and reduce IT risk. Many larger companies, however, still operate under a siloed approach, working primarily with point solutions for [...]
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