It’s a bit last minute, but I’ll be out in San Francisco next week for a panel at Oracle OpenWorld.
I’m still working on my plans, but the panel is on Wednesday the 14th. I’m trying to decide how long to stay, so if you’re interested in meeting drop me a line…
From the press release:
CUPERTINO, Calif. – November 5, 2007 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vontu, the leader in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions, for $350 million, which will be paid in cash and assumed options. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007, subject to receiving regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
You Apple geeks may have noticed I’ve been writing more over at TidBITS, that’s where I tend to put my less-technical Mac articles, especially those that aren’t about security.
Welcome to the last part of our series on understanding and selecting a data loss prevention/content monitoring and filtering solution. Over the past 6 entries we’ve focused on the different components of solutions and the technologies that underlie them. Today, we’ll close the series with recommendations on how to run the selection process and pick the right solution for your organization.
Updated: See </2007/11/15/ipfw-rules/>.
I just spent entirely too much time digging into the Leopard firewall, and here’s what I’ve found. The less geeky version will be out on TidBITS (probably tomorrow); this is just the summary of actual behavior:
I’m almost done with my deeper review of the firewall, but discovered something ugly in the process of podcasting and firewall testing.
From Chris Pepper:
His TidBITS article on SSL
A post on some handy commands
Chris is my first resource when I need help with the command line.
Okay, it’s not that scary, other than the fact Martin isn’t even in the episode this week. That’s right, I flew solo and invited Glenn Fleishman from TidBITS and Wi-Fi Networking News to join me in an episode dedicated to the security issues around the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Just a quick note that I have a short article up on Network World on DLP.
I answered the question, “With all the recent news about acquisitions in the DLP space, I’m unsure if now is the time to select a solution or if I should wait. How can I tell the right time to get into DLP?”
I was reading this post by Richard Bejtlich and it reminded me of a little pet peeve.
It seems some people out there criticize Richard for focusing more on external threats than the big bad, “internal threat”. I’ll admit I used to use the term frequently when I was a little naive, but I finally realized it became code for “scary stuff you’ll never be able to protect yourself from without spending a lot of money on our products.”