Securosis Blog

Remember- Today Is Veteran’s Day

Rich · November 12, 2007

This isn’t a shopping holiday. It’s time to give thanks to those who defend us all, regardless of your feelings towards any officials (elected or otherwise).

I woke up in a pretty good mood this morning. First of all, it’s Friday and I can just feel the weekend oozing around the corners of the neighborhood. Sure, every day is either a Friday or a Monday when you’re self employed, but there’s still something special about the official weekend.

Updated- based on a challenge in email, and redoing some math, I’m going out on a limb and revising my market projections down. My best guess is the market will do closer to $80M this year, unless Q4 is unusually strong.

I’ve been covering the Data Loss Prevention/Content Monitoring and Filtering space pretty much since before it existed and it’s been pretty wild to watch a market grow from it’s inception to early mainstream. It’s also a weird experience to stand on the sidelines and watch as all the incredibly hard work of contacts in various vendors finally pays off.

Off Topic: SSL Certificate Updated

Rich · November 8, 2007

Sorry it took me so long, but the cert is updated for the next 3 years and set to the correct domain name.

Updated: See </wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ipfw-securosis.txt>. I need to completely thank and acknowledge windexh8er for suggesting this post in the comments on the Leopard firewall post, and providing the starting content. In his (or her) own words:

Updated: See </2007/11/15/ipfw-rules/>.

Thanks to an email from John Baxter via MacInTouch, it looks like Apple posted some documentation on the new firewall that contains some really good news:

Network Security Podcast, Episode 83

Rich · November 7, 2007

Martin returns in this episode as we discuss a bunch of totally unrelated security news, from security camera screen savers to breaking into data centers with movie-style techniques:

My first semi-regular column is up over at Dark Reading, “Lea ing From Tylenol”.

Ignore the background stuff on me in the beginning that I had to write; the meat starts about a third of the way through.

In Part 1 of our series we introduced Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) and discussed some of its use cases. In this post we’ll discuss current technical architectures.