I have a moderately complex network at home, with multiple WiFi base stations (running at 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz), a hacked WRT54G gateway router for firewall/VPN, and a couple of AirPort Express units for music streaming.
Database encryption is like a home repair project- either it’s really easy and goes exactly as planned, or about five minutes in you realize you might not want to make any weekend plans for the next 2-3 years, and perhaps you should take a trip to the flower store before trying to explain why your family will be living with exposed wall studs and dangling wires for a while.
I normally make fun of predictions, but two sets issued this week are well worth the reading.
The first come from Mike Rothman, who just issued his 2008 Security Incites. Mike mixes in both technical and general market trends. Some predictions are clearly measurable, and others are there just to make a point. Mike covers everything from metrics and audits, to NAC and DLP.
I’m sitting in a Starbucks in Vegas (on my EVDO card, not some risky open WiFi, of course) and nearly snort my coffee when I read the latest assault against reason by desperate vendors. (Via Slashdot, adding their own FUD).
This week’s question comes from Rob, who works for a security vendor. It’s one that comes up a lot on both the vendor and the end user sides.
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There was a pretty good article over at eWeek today talking about the similarities and differences between DLP and DAM. It was kind of strange to read it, since I used to be the lead analyst covering those markets and I might have been the first person to use the DAM term.
Wired reports that while repairing one of the undersea cables between the UAE and Oman they discovered it was cut by an abandoned anchor.
Update: Thanks to Windexh8er (who provides good information despite being far more inflammatory than he needs to, what’s up with that?) Iran is up and the traffic report is wrong.
Oops, over in England an HSBC branch forgot to lock the doors and turn on the alarm. A 5-year-old accidentally wandered in while his dad was using the ATM.