It’s been about 11 months since the first time I ever spoke with Joshua Corman. He had this idea for a Rugged Software movement and wanted some feedback. After he filled me in on the concept, I told him I thought it was a good idea, and told him I was in. A few weeks later the Rugged Manifesto was published. There were a flurry of blog posts, and a bunch of email discussions, which ended February this year. Since then, I have heard … crickets. New stuff on RuggedSoftware.org? No. OWASP? Nada.…
A couple months ago Akamai announced Edge Tokenization, a service to tokenize credit card numbers for online payments. The technology is not Akamai’s – it belongs to CyberSource, a Visa-owned payment processing company. I have been holding off on this post for a couple months in order to get a full briefing from CyberSource, but that is not currently happening, and this application of tokenization technology is worth talking about, so it’s time to forge ahead. I preface this by stating that I…
When I see the term ‘nutcracker’, I figure folks are talking about their significant others. There are times when the Boss takes on the role of my nutcracker, but usually I deserve it. At least that’s my story today because I’d rather not sleep in the doghouse for the rest of the year. But that’s not what I want to talk about. Let’s discuss the holiday show (and now movie) of the same name.
Ah yes, it’s that time of year. Time for predictions and pontification and soothsaying and all sorts of other year-end comedy. As I told the crowd at SecTOR, basically everyone is making sh*t up. Sure, some have somewhat educated opinions, but at the end of the day nobody knows what will kill us in 2011. Except for the certainty that it will be something. We just don’t know what that something will be.
I am presenting at the National Retail Federation’s 100th annual convention in January 2011. I’ll be talking about the past, present, and future of data security, and how new threats and technologies affect payment card security. I am co-presenting with Peter Engert, who is in charge of payment card acceptance at Rooms To Go furniture, and Robert McMillon of RSA. Robert works with RSA’s tokenization product and manages the First Data/RSA partnership. We’ll each give a small slide presentation…
One of the cool things about Securosis is its transparency. We develop all our research positions in the open through our blog, and that means at times we’re wrong. Wrong is such a harsh word, and one you won’t hear most analysts say. Of course, we aren’t like most analysts, and sometimes we need to recalibrate on a research project and recast the effort. Near the end of our Incident Response Fundamentals series, we realized we weren’t tracking with our project goals, so we split that off and…
OK, before you start leaving flowers and wreaths at Looney Toons HQ, our favorite animated Martian is not dead. But the product formerly known as Cisco MARS is. The end of life announcement hit last week, so after June of 2011 you won’t be able to buy MARS and support will ebb away over the next 3 years. Of course, this merely formalize what we’ve all known for a long time. The carcass is mostly decomposed by the time you get the death notice.
This morning Amazon announced that Amazon Web Services achieved PCI-DSS 2.0 Validated Service Provider compliance. This is both a very big deal, and no big deal at all. Here’s why:
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we are in the process of splitting out the heavy duty research we do for our blog series from the security industry tips and tactics. Here is a little explanation of why: