The first post in this series set the stage for the evolution of threat detection. Now that we’ve made the case for why detection must evolve, let’s work through the mechanics of what that actually means. It comes down to two functions: security data collection, and analytics of the collected data. First we’ll go through what data is helpful and where it should come from.
This past weekend I was at my college reunion. It’s been twenty five years since I graduated. TWENTY FIVE. It’s kind of stunning when you think about it. I joked after the last reunion in 2010 that the seniors then were in diapers when I was graduating. The parents of a lot of this year’s seniors hadn’t even met. Even scarier, I’m old enough to be their parent. It turns out a couple friends who I graduated with actually have kids in college now. Yeah, that’s disturbing.
In 2009, I published My Personal Security Guiding Principles. They hold up well, but my thinking has evolved over six years. Some due to personal maturing, and a lot due to massive changes in our industry.
This week we start one of the cooler projects in the history of Securosis. The Cloud Security Alliance contracted Securosis to write the next version of the CSA Guidance.
As we discussed recently in Network-based Threat Detection, prevention isn’t good enough any more. Every day we see additional proof that adversaries cannot be reliably stopped. So we have started to see the long-awaited movement of focus and funding from prevention, to detection and investigation. That said, for years security practitioners have been trying to make sense of security data to shorten the window between compromise and detection – largely unsuccessfully.
(Note: We’re restarting this series over the next week, so we are reposting the intro to get things moving again. – Mike )
Once again we have a major security story slumming in the headlines. This time it’s Hackers on a Plane, but without all that Samuel L goodness. But what’s the real story? It’s time to face the fact that the only people who know are the ones who aren’t talking, and everything you hear is most certainly wrong.
Rich here.
As a redhead (what little is left) I have spent a large portion of my life answering questions about red hair. Sometimes it’s about pain tolerance/wound healing (yes, there are genetic differences), but most commonly I get asked if the attitude is genetic or environmental.
When things get very busy it’s hard to stay focused. There is so much flying at you, and so many things stacking up. Sometimes you just do the easy things because they are easy. You send the email, you put together the proposal, you provide feedback on the document. It can be done in 15 minutes, so you do it. Leaving the bigger stuff for later. At least I do.
It seems we messed up, and last week’s Summary never made it out of draft. So I doubled up and apologize for the spam, but since I already put in all the time, here you go…