DevOps is one of the hottest trends in all of IT – sailing over every barrier in front of it like a boardercross racer catching big air on the last roller before the drop to the finish. (We’d translate that, but don’t want to make you feel too old and out of touch).
The Security Bonk
For better or worse, a bunch of the Securosis team have become endurance athletes. Probably more an indication of age impacting our explosiveness, and constant travel impacting our respective waistlines, than anything else. So we’re all too familiar with the concept of ‘bonking’: hitting the wall and capitulating. You may not give up, but you are just going through the motions.
Every year we like to start the RSA Guide with review of major themes you will most likely see woven through presentations and marketing materials on the show floor. These themes are a bit like channel-surfing late-night TV – the words and images themselves illustrate our collective psychology more than any particular needs. It is easy to get excited about the latest diet supplement or workout DVD, and all too easy to be pulled along by the constant onslaught of finely-crafted messaging, but in…
Every year we like to start the RSA Guide with review of major themes you will most likely see woven through presentations and marketing materials on the show floor. These themes are a bit like channel-surfing late-night TV – the words and images themselves illustrate our collective psychology more than any particular needs. It is easy to get excited about the latest diet supplement or workout DVD, and all too easy to be pulled along by the constant onslaught of finely-crafted messaging, but in…
Running. I started running when I was 9. I used to tag along to exercise class at the local community college with my mom, and they always finished the evening with a couple laps around the track. High school was track and cross country. College too. When my friends and I started to get really fast, there would be the occasional taunting of rent-a-cops, and much hilarity during the chase, usually ending in the pursuers crashing into a fence we had neatly hopped over. Through my work career,…
As we started recording the Firestarter Monday Rich announced the date. When he said “March 30”, it was kind of jarring. It’s March 30? How did that happen? Wasn’t it just yesterday we rang in the new year? I guess it was almost 90 yesterdays. Thankfully Rich cut me off as I went down the rabbit hole of wondering where the time went.
The RSA Conference is the biggest annual event in our industry (really – there are tens of thousands of people there). But bigger doesn’t mean everything is better, and it can be all too easy to get lost in the event and fail to get value out of it. Even if you don’t attend, this is the time of year a lot of security companies focus on, which affects everything you see and read – for better and worse. This week we discuss how we get value out of the event, and how to find useful nuggets in the…
We’ve seen a renaissance of sorts regarding endpoint security. To be clear, most of solutions in the market aren’t good enough. Attackers don’t have to be advanced to make quick work of the endpoint protection suites in place. That realization has created a wave of innovation on the endpoint that promises to provide a better chance to prevent and detect attacks. But the reality is far too many organizations can’t even get the fundamentals of endpoint security.
A few weeks back at BSidesATL, I sent out a Tweet that kind of summed up my view of things. It was prompted by an email from a fitness company with the subject line “Embrace Discomfort.” Of course they were talking about the pain of whatever fitness regimen you follow. Not me. To me, comfort is uncomfortable.
Organizations continue to invest heavily to block advanced attacks , on both endpoints and networks. Despite all this investment devices continue to be compromised in increasing numbers, and high-profile breaches continue unabated. Something isn’t adding up. It comes down to psychology – security practitioners want to believe that the latest shiny geegaw for preventing compromise will finally work and stop the pain.