Entries Tagged as 'Security-Summit-NA'
by Neil MacDonald | January 17, 2012 | Comments Off
DevOps seeks to bridge the development and operations divide through the establishment of a culture of trust and shared interest among individuals in these previously siloed organizations. However, this vision is incomplete without the incorporation of information security, which represents yet another silo in IT. Breakdowns in communications and processes across development, operations and security [...]
Category: Application Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, application security testing tools, Defense-in-Depth, DevOpsSec, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA
by Neil MacDonald | July 11, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve been absent from blogging for 2 weeks – first we had the Gartner Information Security Summit in DC and then I took some time off for a much-needed vacation. We spent some time at Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. They’ve got a pretty amazing flat beach where the difference between high tide and [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: APTs, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Systematic Workload Reprovisioning
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 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
One of the toughest problems in information security is addressing advanced intrusions that have bypassed traditional security controls and now reside undetected on enterprise systems. With financially motivated attacks and state-sponsored “advanced persistent threats” both on the rise, intrusions can remain undetectable for extended periods of time. We have reached a point where our systems [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, APTs, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | June 16, 2011 | Comments Off
It sounds counterintuitive, but today’s advanced threat environment requires new approaches to the ongoing security and management of server and desktop workloads. The trouble with Advanced Persistent Threats is that, by definition, they have evaded our traditional network and endpoint security controls and now reside undetected in our IT Systems. How many advanced intrusions will [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, APTs, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization, 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 31, 2011 | 3 Comments
The term “trust” is too binary for the world of business and IT we are moving into. Trust sounds black and white / all or nothing. Either I trust you or I don’t. The reality is far more complex and a world of information security decisions based on shades of grey, not black and white. [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, Information Security, Security-Summit-NA
by Neil MacDonald | May 24, 2011 | Comments Off
I’m attending Symantec’s worldwide analyst conference in New York City today (24 May 2011). Symantec’s CEO, Enrique Salem, kicked off the morning with a discussion of Symantec’s role in the changing world of IT and information security. Enrique called out five megatrends that are challenging our preconceptions about the role of IT and information security: [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | May 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
There’s been a bunch of highly publicized attacks recently. Each one has a major lesson for information security. 1) Barracuda’s breach Major lesson: Test all of your web-enabled applications for vulnerabilities as a part of the ongoing application development and change process. This was the root cause of the breach. Minor lesson: Web application firewalls [...]
Category: Application Security Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Tags: application security testing tools, Best Practices, Cloud Security, Defense-in-Depth, 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
