Will FireEye’s Acquisition Strategy Work?
Most of the press and preliminary analysis of the FireEye acquisition of Mandiant has been exuberant. The New York Times got to break the news just after the first of the New…
DetailsGrowing Boycott of RSA Conference 2014
[Full disclosure: As an industry analyst I conduct business with RSA, the security division of EMC, including white papers and recording videos of key executives and customers.] It began with…
DetailsRestricting Users With Admin Privileges Solves the Wrong Problem
CONTROL: Minimize the number of users with domain or local administrative privileges. Such users should use a separate unprivileged account for email and web browsing. This control is misunderstood and…
DetailsNY Times Blogger’s Predictions for Technology in 2014 – Privacy Implications
A recent piece by NY Times Bits blogger Nick Bilton, Disruptions: “Coming in 2014: Extremely Smart Watches and Wearable TVs” described his predictions for technology in 2014, many of which…
DetailsFireEye Acquires Mandiant in $1.05 Billion Deal
Threat protection vendor FireEye announced on Thursday that it had acquired security incident response provider Mandiant in a cash and stock deal worth more than $1 billion based on the current value…
DetailsOn the End of Relevance; Federal Judge Says NSA Phone Data Collection is Constitutional
The National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone data does not violate the Constitution, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled last week.…
DetailsThe Increasing Mobility Threat to IT Security
Any organization that has not already started to think about the impact mobility has on IT security should start doing so this year. 63% of businesses provide formal access to some…
DetailsThe Role of Emotion in the Target Breach
“It’s the most emotional tiiiimmme of the yeeeaaar”… The holidays, filled with emotion. There’s so much going on – from travel, to shopping, to family gatherings, and of course the mad…
DetailsIT Security Industry Has a New Adversary
My coverage of the NSA’s massive data gathering and attacks on fundamental security technology has been focused on the expected impact on the IT security industry. I was one of…
DetailsThe Incredible Power of XKeyscore
Der Spiegel makes light of an incredible tidbit they extracted from a 50-page catalog of exploit technology apparently developed by the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The German newspaper describes, and dismisses as…
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