Microsoft launched a preview of a new security and threat information exchange platform to allow security professionals to share information about ongoing threats. Called Interflow, Microsoft’s threat sharing platform will let customers exchange information such as suspected malicious URLs and IP addresses, analysis of malware, and attack signatures, Microsoft said Monday. Having access to the…
DetailsTallinn 2007 was indeed a wake up call for NATO. The massive amounts of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites, communications, and even Estonian Parliament members’ fax machines, arising from Russian intimidation caused a lot of soul searching and ignited efforts to formulate cyber policies in many nations. But the threat of cyber attack…
DetailsThird-parties are an expansion of the corporate network. They’re a necessity providing a range of services which are better off outsourced than to try and do in-house. Often-times third-parties are less expensive and more efficient which has become attractive to business leaders to maintain or gain a competitive advantage. The expansion of the corporate footprint not…
DetailsClouldFlare, the CDN like DDoS defense and security service, announced the acquisition of CryptoSeal, a personal VPN service, this morning. Ryan Lackey, CryptoSeal’s founder told securitycurrent that his class of 2011 Y Combinator backed venture had already been leveraging CloudFlare’s infrastructure. A quick conversation with CloudFlare’s CEO, Mathew Prince, revealed that this acquisition is as…
DetailsDespite concerns about the economy, organizations are still investing in technology and in their employees, according to a recent IT skills and salary survey. IT professionals can control their worth and value to the organization. More than two-thirds of IT professionals said skills and certification-oriented training positively impacted base salaries, according to a recent skills…
DetailsDo your workplace policies cover wearable devices? Many commercial and Government facilities ban cameras and cellular phones with cameras, but having such policies and not enforcing them can hurt you in the wake of a successful attack. If you routinely ignore a security policy and someone violates it, then you may be left holding the bag — I’ve…
DetailsWhen I predicted a surge in growth in the IT security industry last year (24% CAGR for ten years leading to a $640 billion industry by 2023) I pointed out that encryption would lead the way and that that was not possible without good key management. Perhaps because of that I have monitored key management…
DetailsBack in 2005 we launched a directory of IT security vendors as part of IT-Harvest. Three people in Salt Lake City worked 4 months to compile and categorize 1,200 vendors, their products, and their executives. On the day of the launch an engineer at a Canadian vendor wrote a script and systematically began sucking down…
DetailsThis series of articles and the accompanying videos are part of an ongoing project to illuminate the people, products, and vendors that make up the IT security industry. The vendors paid for the video production. In the early days of the Internet the most powerful driver was the opportunity to reduce telecom costs. Large enterprises…
DetailsNet neutrality is an idea referring to a complete lack of discrimination in the traffic on the Internet. In other words, net neutrality would mean that all packets of data are treated the same, with the same priority. When I watch Netflix, and my show stops while Netflix is buffering, I know some Internet Service…
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