We have some guests in town so it will be a couple more days until I’m back to the regular blogging schedule, but I did manage to install Leopard this weekend.
Good news for Provilla, but this one could go either way on the whole good/bad scale.
I’d heard some good things about Provilla’s technology, but if Trend thinks they can solve this with an endpoint-only solution they won’t succeed and those with hybrid solutions will trounce them. Thoroughly.
It hasn’t taken long, but I’m a Twitter convert. I didn’t realize how useful a short-message broadcast tool could be, especially one linked to mobile phones and IM with a persistent web page. No, I don’t really care what people are eating for lunch, but as Threat Level reports, it’s become amazingly useful in dealing with the California fires.
Chris Hoff and I (and a few others, like Adrian Lane and Gu
er Peterson) have started waxing philosophic quite a bit lately. From debates over Jericho to emotional rants on staying motivated in security, to the security vs. survivability debate, we’ve strayed from our more practical advice and wandered into the land of coffee shops, security jazz, and stupid black berets on our heads.
According to the time tracking feature of my Wii (which you can’t disable, nice parental feature), I played 3 hours and 46 minutes of Guitar Hero III last night after picking it up at Target. I have to fully admit I was skeptical of the whole Guitar Hero thing when it first came out, but it’s incredibly addictive. And not just when I’m drunk at a Christmas party. Not that I’d drink at a Christmas party and play video games. That wouldn’t be proper behavior for a non-practicing Jew.
In our last post on this topic we covered the technologies that encompass the Create and Store stages of the Data Security Lifecycle. Today we’ll detail out the tools for Use and Share.
I just posted an explanation of Leopard Security (that’s Mac OS X 10.5 for you non-Apple geeks) up on TidBITS. It’s based on my original blog post here, but expanded and simplified to appeal to a more general audience.
IBM and Vormetric announces a deal yesterday where… well, I’ll let them say it:
LAS VEGAS, NV – (MARKET WIRE) – 10/18/2007 – Vormetric, Inc. today announced that it has partnered with IBM to deliver database encryption capabilities for DB2 on Windows, Linux and Unix. IBM will offer Vormetric’s highly acclaimed data security solution as part of its data server portfolio, addressing customer demand for increased protection of sensitive data. This new capability is delivered in IBM Database…
Martin is on the road starting up his new job as a PCI auditor for Trustwave so I made my best attempt to record the podcast. More than a few technical difficulties later, we finally completed recording. Sorry about the extra reverb, I’m still figuring out my setup and accidentally left it a little high. For the record, Audio Hijack Pro rocks and I regret trying to record without it.
No, this isn’t science fiction. According to Wired’s Danger Room, an automatic defense system went out of control in South Africa during a live fire exercise. Nine soldiers lost their lives, and fourteen were injured.