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The US Gets A Chief Of Cybersecurity – You Read That Right

The US Gets A Chief Of Cybersecurity – You Read That Right. Howard is a great fit and a guy with impeccable credentials and work ethic. We served on the advisory board for Airtight Networks and he was always highly spoken of. Congratulations Howard!

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IPv6 And The Coming Storm

With a government deadline for IPv6 looming many monitoring, management and security software vendors are trying to move quickly to ensure they will have IPv6 support in their products.  This article from Network World dives deep into the current state of management platforms and their support for IPv6.

FireScope – Operations Made Simple

As the President of FireScope…I feel it is my duty to plug our product.  Not just for the obvious reason,  but also because I believe it really does solve IT operations issues.  Give it try!  He is a quick summary on our line of FireScope appliances.  The FireScope IT Operations solution provides clients with a [...]

Symantec Offers Zero-Day Protection That Doesn’t Rely On Threat Signatures

Beginning in February, Symantec’s will provide Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) as a free add-on to Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007 products.  According to this article in InfoWorldThis zero-day protection tool will look at the behavior of programs running on the computer in order to decide whether they are [...]

Anatomy of a DNS DDoS Amplification Attack

“Anatomy of a DNS DDos Amplification Attack” is a great article that describes in great detail the nuts and bolts of DNS DDos attack and how to survive and reduce the threat of this devastating attack.  For security experts and professionals this is a must read as this particular type of attack can affect large [...]

Tricky Issue – Why Management Doesn’t Get IT Security

A must read article on the Bruce Schneier weblog which states “Most C-level executives view security as an operational issue — kind of like facilities management — and not as a strategic review. As such, they don’t have direct responsibility for security.”.  Another important point is that cost of business operation is a strong point [...]

Quantum attacks worry computer scientists

Quantum computer use state to determine connectivity intervals thereby minimizing the opportunities for threats to occur.  Read about it in this story from Security Focus.  Although quantum computers are still in their infancy..they possibilities are endless.  These computers have the potential to help us meet some of mankind’s greatest technology challenges in medicine, science and [...]

Common Passwords and Issues

Nice article on the Bruce Schneier Weblog discussing intersting trends found from a list of 100,000 passwords for a German dating site.

Wired Article – Everyone Wants to ‘Own’ Your PC

Great article on Wired.com discussing the different companies trying to own you PC.  Everyone from Sony and their infamous “rootkit’ to Microsoft and many others.  The author notes the market forces at work in this seeming violation of your privacy and how some of them get around this issue.

Common Security Myths

Nice article on CERIAS weblog called “Security Myths and Passwords”. The author suggests that information professionals consider carefully the wisdom of common security rules of thumb.  They should give them greater consideration before relying on them.  Great point!