Desktop End-point Security
As I transitioned from the weekend to the work week last night, I settled down to review the 20 Critical Security Controls (v3) published by the SANS Institute. If you haven’t seen this list, you really should take a look as it’s an extremely focused, well written, ...
A problem for all of the big four security vendors is that the anti-malware protection they provide is a commodity based around signatures, reputation and behavioral analysis, according to Jon Oltsik, a principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Those are the three pillars of protection that they all provide, he ...
For years, large organizations have centralized applications and IT services in order to cut costs and drive greater efficiencies. This slowly decreased the IT portfolio in remote offices/branch offices. One-by-one, e-mail, file, application, and backup servers were pulled out of branches as these services were moved ...
Back in 2007, Microsoft shook the security world when it entered the endpoint security market with what was then called Forefront Client Security (now Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection). Forefront was positioned as the endpoint security market for the commercial market while its sister product, OneCare, was ...
After Black Hat, DefCon, and the recent McAfee report, you are probably tired of all of the hype around APTs. I agree that the industry has co-opted and obfuscated, but these "low-and-slow" attacks are something we need to understand and address before more of our private information ...
Pick up any tech journal and you still read headlines like, “CIOs must be prepared for IT consumerization.” The articles in this genre proceed to warn IT executives that resistance is futile, IT consumerization will eventually impact their organizations.
Resistance? Eventually impact their organizations? These warnings were ...
Spending three days in Las Vegas can be a dangerous thing. But, I can honestly say for the first time I didn't drop a single coin in a slot or sit at a card table. Quite frankly, I was busy getting a brain dump from IBM on its latest announcements ...
According to multiple security researchers, fake antivirus software was the biggest cyber crime in 2010 and continues to be a major online scam. When fake antivirus first appeared, it could really be categorized as "scareware" and was fairly innocuous. Fake AV popped up unexpectedly, told you that ...
Back in 2007, ESG asked 206 IT security professionals to respond to the following statement: "Desktop security has become a commodity market with little difference between products." As expected, 58% of respondents either strongly agreed (17%) or agreed (41%) with this statement. In other words, it ...
The latest iPhone commercials feature video calls and multiple couples sharing intimate moments. When describing Google Android, wireless carrier Sprint talks about, “the apps you crave.” Microsoft’s latest pitch is that Windows Mobile phones fold neatly into social networking.
There are a few common themes here. Each vendor ...
