Blog Posts Tagged with "Security Solution"
Fifteen Tips to Improve Your Infosec Risk Management Practice
November 29, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
For years security vendors have been able to play off the general fears of malware and cyber attacks. As the scope of protecting data has become more complex, we’ve slowly learned that deploying more security controls alone is not a risk management solution...
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Clean That Network Traffic
October 31, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Why not deploy an intelligent appliance behind the router and in front of the firewall? Filter out all the junk before you expend any resources in your firewall, or log all the events with your IDS/SEIM. Reduce your need for multiple servers and load balancers. This is like a reverse osmosis for your network...
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Your Next Critical Security Project May Not Be What You Think
October 23, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
If we're honest with ourselves, we can look around the organization and find several projects that even though they are implementation-complete, are hardly "complete" as they sit. Too often after a catastrophic failure, or security incident we're pre-disposed to making hasty purchases to effectively stop the bleeding...
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Security and the Enterprise: Connect What?
September 20, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
We’re going to use the phrase “Connecting security to the business” with almost annoying frequency because it can change the way the business views security, and vice versa. This begs a primer of sorts: What do we mean by all this “connecting security to the business” talk?
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The Best in Practice
September 12, 2012 Added by:Randall Frietzsche
If we are charged with designing, architecting, implementing, deploying, integrating, training and supporting security technology, processes and policies within our organization, we might discover that this work is really an art more than a science...
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Throwing Stones in Glass Houses: Views on the Security Industry
August 26, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
The Information Security industry is rife with negativity. Why are we so quick to pile on to others' pain? Isn the security community just more cynical by nature, is it psychological? Are we wired this way? As an industry, our goal is to create more resilient, more secure' and more defensible postures for everyone...
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Tackling Modern Malware
August 15, 2012 Added by:Simon Heron
With conventional antivirus products, their signature bases are never completely up to date. When a new infection emerges, it simply roams freely across all endpoints. Conversely, WSA leverages behavioural monitoring to pick up infections when it isn’t sure whether a file is malicious or not...
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About Antivirus, Security Awareness, Security Usability...
July 21, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
No matter how many times it's warned against, most Security professionals use themselves and their contemporaries as the basis for what's "right". And as security becomes higher profile with more incidents it really starts looking like instead of having cynical contempt for the users, it's more like plain excuses...
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Security Vendors: Absit Reverentia Vero
July 09, 2012 Added by:
Vendors are driven to sell and sell at all costs. Product features stagnate, services under perform. We the customers suffer and the security postures of all organizations plummets. Adversaries can spend less on penetration innovation while at the same time more easily bypass our defenses...
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Spring Cleaning for Your Security Toolbox
July 08, 2012 Added by:Robb Reck
Give each system and process a priority rating. The ones with the highest rating get the training, money and man-power assigned to master, maintain and run them. The ones with lower ratings get a project plan set up for decommissioning. As in most things in life, true excellence is in quality, not quantity...
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Myth or Fact? Debunking the Biggest Information Security Myths
June 27, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Myths have existed throughout history in different cultures and times. The information security industry isn’t excluded from having its own share of myths. So, I got in touch with some European security professionals to share their views on some of the biggest security myths that need busting...
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The Fear Factor in Information Security
June 13, 2012 Added by:DHANANJAY ROKDE
Vendors are increasingly using the fear factor and coarse tactics to pressure information security managers into deploying rather unnecessary technologies and products. Why have we never heard of a vendor pitch claiming responsibility of failure to protect a company’s infrastructure?
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Solving Problems from the Security Viewpoint
June 07, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
From experience, there are 3 clearly identified causes for poor adoption of well-intentioned security-built technology into everyday development and systems building... Let's take a look at them and see what can be done to raise the level of adoption from each case...
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The Importance of Mobile Device Management for Enterprise Security
May 13, 2012 Added by:Drayton Graham
Almost everyone has their own mobile phone these days, nd they are quickly becoming a necessity in business. In order to enable the kind of freedom BYOD brings, the corporate network and data needs to be protected. Mobile Device Management is a solution that will help with this...
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BYOD is really BYOPMD
May 07, 2012 Added by:Phil Klassen
BYOD should make the security society very nervous. For those who still believe that personal devices will never be a part of your network, remember, never say never. Regardless if non-corporate devices have accessed your network or not, the first step is acceptable use policy...
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Firewalls and Anti-Virus Aren't Dead - Should They Be?
May 04, 2012 Added by:Beau Woods
Decreasing the effectiveness of firewalls and antivirus in is the way they're used. Because of the massive number of connections in and out of a network, definitions of what is and is not allowed and exactly how to allow or deny network connections have become a sprawling mess...
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- Five Things Your InfoSec Team Should Do in the Next 30 Days
- The Disclosure Debate Continues….. (part 1,453, 769) to be Continued
- The Danger of Mixing Cyber Espionage with Cyber Warfare
- Improving Security by Failing Faster
- BYOD: Should It Be the Wave of the Future?
- Trend Micro Discovers "SafeNet" - a New Targeted Espionage Operation Online
- Managing My Company’s Security is a Nightmare
- Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide, Why Security Innovation Must Lead the Way
- The Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing
- ATM Security (And Really Learning from the Past)