Well, I did not see this coming. Today Symantec Corp has agreed to acquire Message Labs for $695 million. That represents close to a 5x multiple on $145M in revenue. While market conditions are not rosy, this price is not out of line for a segment leader who is seeing growth in the highly competitive email security market. This appears to be a good strategic move; they address their largest weakness in email security (SaaS), they can leverage the continued convergence of security offerings in…
Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Someone managed to figure out the details of clickjacking and released a proof of concept against Flash. With the information out in public, Jeremiah and Robert are free to discuss it.
In the last post on Email Security, I commented on how easy it was to add outsourced email security services onto your existing email security deployment. That adding on an extra layer of anti-spam filtering on top of what you have not only provides an increase in the effectiveness of filtering, but also reduced the processing load on your existing hardware. But email security service vendors have been adding outbound email, data and web security offerings to their portfolio on top of their…
I was catching up with Rob Newby’s blog and this post on dealing with security policies vs. standards/processes caught my eye. Although policies form the foundation for our security programs (at least they should), I find that more often than not they are completely misused by many of my clients. While I’ve noticed definite improvement over the past few years, I still often walk into organizations and see big 3 inch binders full of their security policies.
Say you are an on-line retailer: Do you ever check to make sure your web site functions? If you don’t, start! Here are a few examples of why this is a good idea:
The Securosis team is attempting to regroup and prepare for a busy Q4. It took three full days, but I am fully migrated into the Mac Universe and engaged in a couple of research projects. Now productive, I can finally start work on a couple research projects. Rich has left HQ in search of coffee, quiet and a security muse while he catches up on writing projects and white papers. But even though we have a short term ban on travel and conferences, there is a lot to talk about. Here is our summary…
There’s been a bunch of new information coming out the past few days about the potential big TCP denial of service flaw. The three most informative posts I’ve read are:
Greg Young over at Gartner has a humorous post on possibly the best way to make money in network security- the “Security Silly Jar”. Just drop in a quarter anytime someone says something stupid from the list. My favorite is number 9:
Yesterday, following up after recording the podcast on clickjacking, I was talking with Robert Hansen about the TCP flaw some contacts of his found over in Sweden. He wrote it up in his column on Dark Reading, and Dennis Fisher over at TechTarget also has some information up.
We had a killer episode of the Network Security Podcast this week as Jeremiah Grossman and Robert “Rsnake” Hansen joined us to talk a bit about their new clickjacking exploit. I definitely had some fun on this one, even though Jeremiah and Robert couldn’t dig too deeply into the details.