Turning the tables on data theft
The State of Virginia is offering a very substantial reward for information that leads to the arrest of a malicious attacker who stole 8 million data records.
Cutting through the marketing b/s of security products
I think FUD is not going to cut it anymore. There is currently no standard, vendor-neutral methodology tp quantify information security risk and justify technology purchases. Maybe during the GFC as budgets dwindle down and threats ratchet up – security analysts will finally get some real work done. In order for a company to decide […]
Would you buy a used car from this company?
Would you buy a security product from a vendor who couldn’t write English properly, didn’t understand fundamentals of data security and pushed the envelope on claims for product functionality? A prospect recently told us that he was using Lumension end point security software – we’re trying to upsell him to a data security solution that […]
Cloud computing, buzz-word du-jour
The buzzword du-jour in the current economic crash of 2008 is “Cloud Computing”. There are several interesting question around cloud computing – why now, how are people building it, what are people doing with it and what about security. 1) Why now? Back in 2001 after the dot com crash, On-demand / SaaS started picking […]
Industry indicators
Are test equipment sales a bellwether of the telecommunications and technology industry prospects? I have been looking for macro indicators of what will happen in the telecommunications industry. We specialize in data security for telecommunications. Data security is a big issue for companies in flux – firing employees, turning more to outside contractors and merging […]
The death of risk assessment
We saw the movie “Blood Diamonds” last night; the way some companies practice IT risk management reminds me of TIA – “This is Africa”. Joseph Granneman talks about some of the problems with conventional IT risk assessment on Searchsecurity.com Risk assessment, as currently practiced in information security, is dead. I’m not saying we need to […]
EMC Atmos – cloud storage
I had heard about this EMC startup but didn’t know much about what they really do. My friend Arik Blum from HP takes the time to send interesting technology updates to his own private distribution list. Atmos is COS “cloud optimised storage”, with web services such as SOAP and REST for access. Cloud Optimized Storage(COS) […]
