Nothing amuses me more than some nice vendor-on-vendor smackdown action. Well, plenty of things amuse me more, especially Big Bang Theory and cats on YouTube, but the vendor thing is still moderately high on my list.
It amuses me that folks were shocked by the latest treasure trove of goodies from the HBGary email spool. Basically these folks built custom malware on behalf of their government clients. Ars Technica digs in (with pretty impressive technical depth, I might add) and makes clear what you should already know.
I think Rich may still be sleep deprived, but on the upside his recap did elicit my loudest laugh of the day. See if you can spot the sentence that caused it.
It’s worth noting that even sleep-deprived Rich is surprisingly coherent.
While the RSA show technically doesn’t start until tomorrow, there’s still a heck of a lot going on. For myself, the worst is actually over. And by “the worst”, I mean there are even odds I will actually sleep tonight.
This is a bit of a different post for me. One exercise in the CCSK Enhanced Class which we are developing for the Cloud Security Alliance is to encrypt a block storage (EBS) volume attached to an AWS instance. There are a few different ways to do this but we decided on Trend Micro’s SecureCloud service for a couple reasons. First of all, setting it up is something we can handle within the time constraints of the class. The equivalent process with TrueCrypt or some other native encryption…
It’s just a couple days until RSA Conference 2011. Is this your first time attending the security conference in San Francisco? Having attended for a few years now I can safely say that there are some things you should take into account before you show up. First of all, download the Securosis Guide to RSA 2011 (PDF) or (ePub).
With great pleasure we post the 2nd annual Securosis Guide to the RSA Conference , 2011 edition. Last year’s guide we built as an experiment, but it has now effectively become an encyclopedia of all things RSA.
Compliance is still driving most of what happens from a management standpoint, which is why have a specific compliance section below. On the security management front, there was still plenty of activity in 2010. But most customers continued to feel the same way: underwhelmed. It’s still very hard to keep control of much of anything, which is problematic as the number of devices and amount of sensitive data grow exponentially. Good times. Good times.
We keep pretty busy schedules at RSA every year. But the good news is we do a number of speaking sessions and make other appearances throughout the week. Here is where you can find us:
I think we’ve taken this instant gratification thing a bit too far. Do you remember in the olden days, when you didn’t know what you were getting for your birthday? Now we get no surprises, pretty much as a society. The combination of a 24-hour media cycle, increasingly outsourced manufacturing, and loose lips ensures that nothing remains a secret for long.