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I had an interesting phone discussion a couple days ago with Veriwave’s CTO, Tom Alexander and VP of Marketing, Eran Karoly. We were talking about field tools for testing the quality of installed wireless LANs. At a high level, we all agreed that much of the field testing and verification for WLANs today have centered […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people probably would read the title of this blog post and think, “another idiot hit ‘Reply All’” and pissed a bunch of people off and Michael thinks it is funny”. Well, you would right on two and three quarters of those points because the person who hit Reply All is not an idiot. In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I will start out this post by saying that I generally am a fan of SC Magazine. Though the product reviews are not very good, they often have informative interviews with some folks whose views I respect. But I had to guffaw a bit with the Nov 2008 edition when I got to the opinion […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Those of you who know the SE side of me hopefully know that I do not hold very many security products to a very high standard because I don’t expect them to perform to it. Many products do a good job, but I really see very few that make a lasting impression on me. So, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To everyone reading this, take it from me that Palo Alto Networks has some excellent stuff. I have seen this put into production networks and watched it give tremendous insight into what is getting in and out. I wish this box had been around when I was an Information Security Manager and Network / Security […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So there is a particular security product manufacturer that Accuvant sells that I cannot name since I will get in trouble (love ya’ Dan!) that has a good product, but their support has been horrendous lately. Actually, even their product has been slipping, now that I think of it. And it is starting to hurt […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just read a post by Mike Rothman where he is revisiting the "Big is the New Small" post he wrote oh so long ago (is it just me, or does 2 years in the blogging world seem more like 20?). Basically, it was all about the consolidation of the security market, which is still […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been evaluating a new SaaS mobile data encryption solution from a company called HyBlue. The product is called IceLock, and essentially they put all the management of the encryption in the cloud without storing the keys in the cloud. They offer some other services as well, but this one is what they asked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The simple answer to the title is "yes". However, that is really not the exact question I am asking here. The question is really "are DMZ’s actually still DMZ’s?" Let me ‘splain. I had a client ask me the other day if I was seeing a drop in the use of DMZ’s out there. We […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a long talk with a client yesterday regarding IPS. They were setting up a nice sized extranet infrastructure to serve their clients, and they needed to build some security into the design before they implemented. They had already thought of a lot of pieces, and now they were looking at putting in IPS. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I took a class a couple of weeks ago on DLP (data leak/loss prevention). it was specifically the Websense Content Protection Suite (former PortAuthority). The class was very good because the instructor spoke a lot about how to position the product as well as the technical workings (good stuff for an SE to know). One […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know, I know. I can answer that question with a resounding “NO” and get on with things. But seriously, what does it take to even approach security nirvana? I mean really, there are so many people spouting theories about where we need to go to make the Internet secure. Then there are a bunch of frickin’ […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was at a client site the other day… Wait a minute. I just realized how often I open posts with that line now. I feel like Snoopy: It was a dark and stormy night! Anyway, I was visiting a client the other day (yea, that’s better ), and I was accompanied by my sales guy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, I am officially depressed. Here’s Richard Bejtlich’s impression of the state of security after one day at BlackHat: My overall impression from the first day of briefings can be summarized in this manner. Existing defenses are absolutely ineffective against current attacks. I am struggling to describe the importance of this insight. It does not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, now that I am settled in my hotel room in Dallas, I have some time to respond to Alan’s post calling me a hooker (like I said to Alan, at least he called me high-priced). I will also be responding to a comment left by a reader who goes by the name of Shaneo. You […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Judging by Alan’s comment to my Managing Expectations post, I think he is a little aggravated with me for picking on vendors. It probably had something to do with this comment: …the marketing departments of companies typically make it sound like their product can cure world hunger and make you a sandwich at the same time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Dallas today doing a quick dive into the Websense Content Protection Suite . This is the information leakage protection product formerly known as PortAuthority. I looked at these guys a while back when I was a security manager. They get their accuracy by fingerprinting your data. Basically, they crawl your files and databases and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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