CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal
Posted on: 18 Jun 2014
ClouldFlare, 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…
Key Management a Fast Growing Space
Posted on: 17 Jun 2014
When 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…
Battling Web Bots
Posted on: 16 Jun 2014
Back 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,…
Time to Rethink Wide Area Networks
Posted on: 13 Jun 2014
This 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…
6 Tips to Avoid Scammers on LinkedIn
Posted on: 06 Jun 2014
LinkedIn announced in April that it had surpassed 300 million users. While LinkedIn has become a valuable networking tool and even somewhat of a useable social networking platform, especially its…
Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker Botnets Shut Down! But Wait, Are they Really?
Posted on: 03 Jun 2014
The US department of Justice has announced with not just a touch of self congratulations that they have taken down the Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker botnets. The Gameover Zeus malware…
TrueCrypt Dies, Not a Huge Issue for the Enterprise
Posted on: 30 May 2014
The sudden and inexplicable demise of the popular TrueCrypt product is raising eyebrows this week. TrueCrypt was a free encryption product supported by anonymous developers. There was quite a bit…
Security Industry Fights Surveillance State with Words
Posted on: 23 May 2014
Cisco’s General Counsel Mark Chandler on May 13 reacted strongly to further news of NSA exploiting Cisco gear, sparked in part by the publication of Glenn Greenwald’s book on Snowden and…
Cisco Acquires ThreatGrid
Posted on: 21 May 2014
Cisco announced this morning that they are adding ThreatGrid to their portfolio. ThreatGrid uses instrumented sandboxes to conduct its research of advanced malware. They address the issue created when advanced…
Sandbox Vendors Ignore Microsoft Licensing Agreements
Posted on: 16 May 2014
An examination of Microsoft’s Customer License Agreement (CLA) for embedded systems indicates that there is no provision for a vendor to ship appliances with multiple virtual instances of Windows, or…