I have always gotten great meaning from music. I can point back to times in my life when certain songs totally resonate. Like when I was a geeky teen and Rush’s Signals spoke to me. I saw myself as the awkward kid in Subdivisions who had a hard time fitting in. Then I went through my Pink Floyd stage in college, where “The Wall” dredged up many emotions from a challenging childhood and the resulting distance I kept from people. Then Guns ‘n Roses spoke to me when I was partying and raging, and…
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When I hurt my knee running right before Thanksgiving everyone glanced at my brace and felt absolutely compelled to tell me how much “getting old sucks”. Hell, even my doctor commiserated as he discussed his recent soccer injury.
I’m not sure how it happened, but XX1 turned 15 in November and got her driver’s permit. Wait, what?!?! That little girl can now drive. Like, legally? WTF? Clearly it is now January, and I am still in shock that 15 years has passed by in the blink of an eye.
Another SIEM blog series? Really? Why are we still talking about SIEM? Isn’t that old technology? Hasn’t it been subsumed by new and shiny security analytics products and services? Be honest – those thoughts crossed your mind, especially because we have published a lot of SIEM related research over the past few years. We previously worked through the basics of the technology and how to choose the right SIEM for your needs. A bit over a year ago we looked into how to monitor hybrid cloud…
The last time I took 2 weeks off was probably 20 years ago. As I write that down, it makes me sad. I’ve been been running pretty hard for a long time. Even when I had some forced vacations (okay, when I got fired), I took maybe a couple days off before I started focusing on the next thing. Whether it was a new business or a job, I got consumed by what was next almost immediately. I didn’t give myself any time to recharge and heal from the road rash that accumulated from one crappy job after…
In last week’s Incite I looked backwards at 2015. As we close out this year (this will be the last Incite in 2015), let me take a look forward at what’s in store for 2016.
To wrap up our series on Building a Threat Intelligence Program (Introduction; Gathering TI; Using TI), we need to jump back to the beginning for a bit. How do you define success of the program? More importantly, how can you kickstart the program with a fairly high-profile success to show the value of integrating external data into your defenses, and improve your security posture? That involves getting a quick win and then publicizing it.
Most organizations have realized that threat prevention has limitations, so we have seen renewed focus on threat detection. But like most other security markets, the term threat detection has been distorted to cover almost everything. So we figure it’s time to clarify what threat detection is and how it is evolving to deal with advanced attacks, sophisticated adversaries, and limited resources.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest research paper, on Building Security Into DevOps. We expect DevOps to fundamentally change the practice of software development over the next decade, and with it how we handle application security.
Rich, Mike, and Adrian highlight the big trends from the year and where our expectations were right and wrong. We teeter on the brink of predictions, but manage to pull ourselves back from falling into that chasm of idiocy. Mostly.