Security Management
Microsoft built upon its Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) this week with an announcement at the Black Hat conference in Washington DC. With this announcement, Microsoft will provide a simplified implementation of SDL. The goal here is to spread the goodness of SDL to smaller or less sophisticated ...
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In just the first week of a new year and a new decade, EMC announced its intent to acquire Archer Technologies, a leader in GRC software, with plans to integrate it into its RSA Security Division. By industry and even EMC standards, this deal was relatively small—but ESG believes ...
Information security events and vulnerabilities haunted large organizations in 2009. New security technologies should help security-conscious organizations, but 2010 will likely be a very difficult year. ESG expects a steady increase in the volume and sophistication of security threats as well as a major event next year that makes ...
In May of this year, I wrote a blog on another media site predicting a precipitous rise in Mac-based malware. At the time, I believed that this would change Apple’s public claims about security superiority over Windows and force Steve Jobs and company to recommend security software ...
Symantec announced today that it will offer host security and storage management products through the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
At present the announcement is really a distribution play for Symantec and a coverage play for Amazon — EC2 customers can now align their cloud computing services with ...
However, while the number of organizations that were breached went down, the amount of records that were lost rose, Jon Oltsik, senior security analyst with ESG, said in the report.
via Report finds enterprises failing to protect sensitive data - SC Magazine US.
Confidential data (i.e. regulated data, private data, company confidential data, PII, etc.) is everywhere — on laptops, thumb drives, file servers, and enterprise storage devices. This also means that confidential data is at risk everywhere. In other words, my organization could suffer a data breach as a ...
This past April, Oracle shocked the technology world by announcing its intention to acquire industry icon Sun Microsystems. The deal was approved exactly 3 months later by the U.S. Department of Justice but as of this writing, the European Union has yet to sanction the merger. Apparently ...
Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, sees the market differently. The main driver, he says, is the need to keep up with security complexity.
via Choosing SIEM: Security Info and Event Management Dos and Don'ts - CSO Online - Security and Risk.
