Archives for January, 2013
by Neil MacDonald | January 31, 2013 | 1 Comment
Seriously, is anyone surprised? I’m sure you’ve seen the news about Chinese infiltration at the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.html According to the article: Over the course of three months, attackers installed 45 pieces of custom malware. The Times — which uses antivirus products made by Symantec — found only one instance in which Symantec [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Tags: APTs, Best Practices, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Whitelisting
by Neil MacDonald | January 29, 2013 | 2 Comments
Last fall, I wrote a research note for Gartner clients titled “The Impact of Software-Defined Data Centers on Information Security” that explored the impact of software defined infrastructure on security – and the evolution of information security infrastructure to become software-defined itself. Today, I saw that NetCitadel had announced an offering in this emerging space [...]
Category: Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Software Defined Data Center Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Context-aware Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Reducing Complexity, Software Defined Security, VMware
