It is no surprise that EMC has acquired Netwitness. Looks like they are serious about this security stuff Here is a list of EMC / RSA acquisitions through the years, for your historical enjoyment: July, 2001 RSA Security acquires Securant…
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Just a Reminder for RSA: The “P” in APT stands for “Persistent”
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RSA’s Chairman Art Coviello has issued an open letter to its customers about a security breach that resulted in lost information related to SecurID. Two lines don’t seem to go together: “Recently, our security systems identified an extremely sophisticated cyber…
Attention InfoSec Pros: measuring risk is in your future
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Mike Rothman of Securosis stirs things up a bit with his “Risk Metrics are Crap” post. This type of exercise forces participants to make public commitments. In itself, this is not a huge deal since many positions of those in…
Nuh, uh; Yuh, huh
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(is that title the proper English spelling of two kids disagreeing? who knows…) Andrew Gelman’s enlightening blog points to a great example how scientific research helps us get smarter. He excerpts: Three articles published [by Brett Pelham et al.] have…
Does Brand Matter in Security?
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My buddy George at InformationWeek suggests that security breaches have negative impact on the brand. The notion of a “brand” is something I find very interesting wrt security, if only that I have heard many, many times from security folks…
Changing the meaning of words… sort of
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So my son saw an option in the settings for his Flip-like video camera that said “Format SD card” and assumed it meant format the video he took to save it to the SD card. Having never in his life…
Will Schneier pull a Krugman?
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I had just finished reading Bruce Schneier’s blog post “Security in 2020” when further review of blogs I follow pointed me to Chris Alden’s post “Julian Simon, and Paul Krugman, Remembered.” Alden’s post reminisced about a 1998 issue of his…
To Infinity… and Beyond! The security edition…
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In security, annual recaps and predictions are often depressing and not particularly insightful. Let’s face it — it isn’t difficult to assert that there will be more nation-state involvement in increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks against foreign and domestic targets, all…