Entries Tagged as 'Endpoint Protection Platform'
by Neil MacDonald | October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last week I attended Gartner’s US Symposium conference in Orlando. With 8,000+ attendees (25% of which were CIOs) and at least 1,000 more analysts, vendors and support staff, you can imagine it was quite a scene. In addition to three presentations, I had more than 30 fantastic one on ones with attendees over the four [...]
Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Microsoft Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Microsoft Security, symposium, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | October 13, 2011 | Comments Off
Context-aware security is the use of supplemental information to improve security decisions at the time the decision is made. The goal? More-accurate security decisions capable of supporting more-dynamic business and IT environments as well as providing better protection against advanced threats. In this 2010 research note that provided a definition and framework for understanding context-aware [...]
Category: Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Context-aware Security, Endpoint Protection Platform, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, symposium
by Neil MacDonald | September 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’ve made it a point over the past 6 months to ask clients if they are combining their endpoint protection platform contracts across desktops, laptops and servers. In most cases (about 75%), the answer is yes – contracts are being combined in order to reduce complexity and costs. Is protecting a desktop different than a [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Reducing Complexity, Reducing Cost, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | August 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
Run more of your Windows users without administrator rights. I’ve talked about this several times before – including here, here and here. While it may not be feasible to remove administrator rights from all users, it is an absolutely achievable goal to continue to improve the percentage of Windows users running without administrator rights year [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Microsoft Security Windows 7 Tags: Best Practices, Beyond Anti-Virus, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Microsoft Security, Security No-Brainer, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | August 22, 2011 | 3 Comments
I’ve had two discussions with clients today already on the role of full drive encryption ( FDE technologies such as Microsoft’s BitLocker, McAfee Total Protection, Sophos/Utimaco, Symantec PGP, Check Point, Trend/Mobile Armor etc) for fixed desktops. Full drive encryption should be considered mandatory for laptops and most organizations have implemented this – either with Windows [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Windows 7 Tags: Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Microsoft Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | August 4, 2011 | Comments Off
Licensing changes for Microsoft’s enterprise endpoint antimalware protection solution that were announced in March at Microsoft’s MMS conference take affect this month. If you are licensed under Microsoft’s Core Client Access License program, it now includes CALs for Forefront Endpoint Protection. For many organizations that are already licensed under Core CAL, this means that FEP [...]
Category: Endpoint Protection Platform Microsoft Microsoft Security Windows 7 Tags: Apple, Endpoint Protection Platform, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | June 23, 2011 | Comments Off
I’m here at the Gartner Information Security summit on the fourth and final day. We had a record number of attendees – at least 1700 by my estimate. Attendees have the ability to book one on one conversations with the analysts and my schedule was completely full. One of the conversations with a client was [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Systematic Workload Reprovisioning, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
On 3 June 2011, RSA, the Security Division of EMC, confirmed that Lockheed Martin had proof that hackers attacked its network partly by using data stolen in a March 2011 attack on RSA. Subsequently, on 6 June 2011, RSA announced a program to replace customers’ RSA SecurID one-time password (OTP) authentication product tokens We’ve updated [...]
Category: Application Security Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Tags: Best Practices, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Security-Summit-NA
by Neil MacDonald | May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’m having lots of discussions with clients on Microsoft’s new Forefront Endpoint Protection offering that was released in December of 2010. In addition to recent licensing changes, the biggest change over the pervious release (formerly called Forefront Client Security) is the change out of the management, policy and reporting infrastructure underneath to be based on [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Information Security Tags: Beyond Anti-Virus, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Microsoft Security, Reducing Complexity, Reducing Cost, Security-Summit-NA, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | May 4, 2011 | Comments Off
In discussions with clients, I still run into some confusion on whether or not removal of administrator rights constitutes “lockdown”. Perhaps this was the case a few years ago with older Windows applications and Windows XP, but this is not the case today with Windows 7. For example: Standard users can install and execute well-written [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Microsoft Security Windows 7 Tags: Apple, Beyond Anti-Virus, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Microsoft Security, Security-Summit-NA, Whitelisting, Windows
