Security and Privacy
You've got to hand it to VMware -- it clearly understands the strengths and weaknesses of the ESX environment and is focused on improving the platform. Case in point: this week's VMworld, when the company announced the VMware vShield family of security products.
From the early announcement, it ...
In between the cloud rhetoric and virtualization hyperbole at this year’s VMworld, I’m starting to see a few significant announcements.
RSA Security made one of these by introducing virtualization intelligence in its Archer compliance suite.
What’s the big deal? IT operations needs standard server configurations to meet compliance ...
An industry friend just sent me a story from the Wall Street Journal proclaiming that security management leader ArcSight will be acquired within the next week. The story goes on to say that the likely buyers include Oracle, HP, EMC, IBM, and CA.
Hmm. First of all, anyone ...
It's been a few days since Intel's surprising McAfee acquisition announcement. This weekend, I took time to read what others were saying about the merger and there seems to be a lot of posturing and confusion out there. Here is a short list of some of the ...
Before the bell rang on Wall Street, Intel shocked the army of Latte sipping financial wonks by announcing its intentions to buy security leader McAfee. The deal is valued at $7.7 billion or $48 per share, about a 60% premium on the stock price.
A few financial analysts who ...
Those of us who have been around the industry for a while remember the transition from host-based to client/server computing. This change wasn't subtle; it turned the entire IT world upside down.
I anticipate a similar upheaval over the next few years around Identity and Access Management (IAM). ...
Earlier this month, the House cybersecurity caucus launched a new website in order to “allow the public to have access to news and information in regard to cybersecurity policy.” The House cybersecurity caucus is chaired by Congressmen Jim Langevin (D, RI) and Mike McCaul (R, TX), and ...
DNSSEC is nothing new. The initial RFC was written in 1997 and the first specification was published in 1999. In spite of these efforts, secure DNS languished during the early 2000s as it wasn't a requirement for most organizations.
Things have changed, however. DNS security has been called ...
Symantec's acquisition of the Verisign security assets closed earlier this week. This frees Symantec to tell the world what it bought and the role the Verisign services play.
Good thing. Symantec caught a lot of flack for buying a legacy SSL certificates business. In truth, this deal could be much more--a ...
If you aren't familiar with Web threats, you should be. A Web threat uses the ubiquity of the WWW as a threat vector to propagate malicious exploits and payloads. Web threats lead to PCs infected with keyboard loggers, botnet code, or traditional worms and viruses.
Traditional threats like e-mail viruses and ...
