Innovation comes and goes in security. Back in 2007 network security had been stagnant for more than a few years. It was the same old, same old. Firewall does this. IPS does that. Web proxy does a third thing. None of them did their jobs particularly well, struggling to keep up with attacks encapsulated in common protocols. Then the next generation firewall emerged, and it turned out that regardless of what it was called, it was more than a firewall. It was the evolution of the network security…
It should surprise no one that Apple is writing their own playbook for bug bounties. Both bigger, with the largest potential payout I’m aware of, and smaller, focusing on a specific set of vulnerabilities with, for now, a limited number of researchers. Many, including myself, are definitely free to be surprised that Apple is launching a program at all. I never considered it a certainty, nor even necessarily something Apple had to do.
Incident response is always tough today. But when you need to deal with faster networks, an increasingly mobile workforce, and that thing called cloud computing, IR gets even harder. Sure, there are new technologies like threat intelligence, better network and endpoint telemetry, and analytics to help you investigate faster. But don’t think you’ll be able to do the same thing tomorrow as you did yesterday. You will need to evolve your incident response process and technology to handle the cloud…
One of the hardest things for me to realize has been that I don’t control everything. I spent years railing against the machine, and getting upset when nothing changed. Active-minded people (as opposed to passive) believe they make their own opportunities and control their destiny, sometimes by force of will. Over the past few years, I needed a way to handle this reality and not make myself crazy. So I came up with 3 “A” words that make sense to me. The first ‘A’, Acceptance, is very difficult…
Rich here.
Before I get into tech content, a quick personal note. I just signed up for my first charity athletic event, and will be riding 250 miles in 3 days to support challenged athletes. I’ve covered the event costs, so all donations go right to the cause. Click here if you are interested in supporting the Challenged Athletes Foundation (and my first attempt at fundraising since I sold lightbulbs for the Boy Scouts. Seriously. Lightbulbs. Really crappy ones which burned out in months,…
Threat Intelligence has made a significant difference in how organizations focus resources on their most significant risks. Yet far too many organizations continue to focus on very tactical use cases for external threat data. These help, but they underutilizing the intelligence’s capabilities and potential. The time has come to advance threat intelligence into the broader and more structured TI program to ensure systematic, consistent, and repeatable value. A program must account for ongoing…
Based on the discussion in our first post, you have decided to move toward a managed security monitoring service. Awesome! That was the easy part. Now you need to figure out what kind of deployment model makes sense, and then do the hard work of actually selecting the best service provider for you.
It was a great Incite. I wrote it on the flight to Europe for the second leg of my summer vacation. I said magical stuff. Such depth and perspective, I even amazed myself. When I got to the hotel in Florence and went to post the Incite on the blog, it was gone. That’s right: G. O. N. E.
Many security professionals feel the deck is stacked against them. Adversaries continue to improve their techniques, aided by plentiful malware kits and botnet infrastructures. Continued digitization at pretty much every enterprise means everything of interest in on some system somewhere. Don’t forget the double whammy of mobile and cloud, which democratizes access without geographic boundaries, and takes the one bastion of control, the traditional data center, out of your direct control. Are…
Rich here. Quick note: I basically wrote an entire technical post for Tool of the Week, so feel free to skip down if that’s why you’re reading. Ah, summer. As someone who works at home and has children, I’m learning the pains of summer break. Sure, it’s a wonderful time without homework fights and after-school activities, but it also means all 5 of us in the house nearly every day. It’s a bit distracting. I mean do you have any idea how to tell a 3-year-old you cannot ditch work to play Disney…