The New Need to Create a Secondary Perimeter to Detect for Malware’s Presence

February 28, 2019

Malware – and specifically ransomware – tends to regularly make headlines with some business somewhere in the world reporting having its data encrypted by it. Due to this routine occurrence, companies need to acknowledge that their standard first line defenses such as cybersecurity and backup software no longer completely suffice to detect malware. To augment these defenses, companies need to take new steps to shore up these traditional defenses which, for many, will start with creating a secondary perimeter around their backup stores to detect the presence of malware.

Security Industry Turning to Big Data to Accelerate Analysis of Event and Log Data

July 8, 2016

Yesterday I broke away from my normal routine of analyzing enterprise data protection and data storage technologies to take a closer look at enterprise security. To do so, I stopped by the Omaha Tech Security Conference held at the local Hilton Omaha conference center and visited some of the vendors’ booths to learn more about their respective technologies. In so doing, it quickly became evident from my conversations with a number of security providers that they recognize their need to introduce Big Data analytics into their products to convert the data, events, and incidents that they record and log into meaningful analysis that organizations can consume and act upon.

DCIG 2014-15 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

May 15, 2014

DCIG is pleased to announce the availability of its DCIG 2014-15 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Appliance Buyer’s Guide. In this Buyer’s Guide, DCIG weights, scores and ranks 29 SIEM appliances respectively from nine (9) different providers. Like all previous DCIG Buyer’s Guides, this Buyer’s Guide provides the critical information that all size organizations need when selecting a SIEM appliance to help provide visibility into their security posture by providing usable and actionable information.

The Proper Roles that SIEM Appliances Should Fulfill in Organizations

March 28, 2014

Data security is a part of the IT infrastructure that should take care of itself. Companies have enough to worry about without always looking over their shoulder to make sure no one is stealing vital information. As most organizations recognize, this is NOT the case.

2014 Mobile Data Management Buyer’s Guide Now Available

November 4, 2013

DCIG is pleased to announce the release of its 2014 Mobile Data Management (MDM) Buyer’s Guide that weight, score and rank over 100 features. Like previous Buyer’s Guides, this Buyer’s Guide provides the critical information that organizations need when selecting Mobile Data Management software to help meet the security, compliance and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) challenges in an ever increasing mobile enterprises.

New Solutions to Antivirus are Pushing Defense-in-Depth to the Network Edge

August 2, 2013

Security-in-depth is rarely discussed without including desktop antivirus with antivirus software being a cornerstone of corporate network protection since the advent of the computer virus. The danger that antivirus software presents is that within most organizations it presents the last line of defense so any threat capable of breaching this defense has the ability to wreak havoc within the enterprise.

Threat Detection is the Next Frontier in Data Security: Final Thoughts from Symantec Vision 2013

April 19, 2013

In the last few years security has shifted from being an issue that organizations only deal with when a crisis occurs to one with which they must now daily confront. This is putting pressure on organizations to stop taking a knee jerk reaction as their means of ongoing security management and instead adopt a systematic approach to effectively deal with both external and internal threats. The problems that internal threats present and why they are so difficult to detect were openly discussed this past Wednesday morning during that morning’s keynote at Symantec Vision 2013.

The Coming Identity Based Network Management Revolution; Interview with Blackridge Technology CTO John Hayes, Part III

May 14, 2012

Since the advent of the TCP/IP protocol, network administrators have had a major blind spot: the ability to reliably determine the identity of an individual device or user. BlackRidge’s new Eclipse™ solution, built on BlackRidge’s patented Transport Access Control (TAC), uses client drivers or gateway appliances to insert unique identity information to every TCP packet. In this third and final post in our blog interview series, BlackRidge Technology CTO John Hayes and I discuss where BlackRidge is heading and the challenge of managing infrastructures from the perspective of devices rather than networks.

Symantec Vision 2012 Exposes Attendees to the Real Threat of Today’s Constant Barrage of Attacks

May 11, 2012

The keynote given by Symantec’s CEO Enrique Salem this past Tuesday and the series of presentations that followed exposed every attendee at Symantec Vision 2012 to just how dangerous today’s internet world really has become. Yet the larger threat that every business faces is not putting in place a solution to address them. Rather it is the danger that dealing with these threats will cause organizations to take their eyes off of the ball and fail to focus on where their business needs to go next.

The Three Practical Use Cases for Network Layer Identification; Interview with BlackRidge Technology CTO John Hayes Part I

April 10, 2012

Followers of my previous blog entries should recognize the next company in DCIG’s Executive Interview series. I have previously discussed both the technical and operational impact of BlackRidge Technology’s patented breakthrough technology known as Transport Access Control (TAC). Today, BlackRidge announces their first product, Eclipse, based on their TAC technology. I begin a discussion of this release, in the form of a multi-part interview series, with BlackRidge Technology’s CTO John Hayes.

Category: Threat Assessment

The New Need to Create a Secondary Perimeter to Detect for Malware’s Presence

Security Industry Turning to Big Data to Accelerate Analysis of Event and Log Data

DCIG 2014-15 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

The Proper Roles that SIEM Appliances Should Fulfill in Organizations

2014 Mobile Data Management Buyer’s Guide Now Available

New Solutions to Antivirus are Pushing Defense-in-Depth to the Network Edge

Threat Detection is the Next Frontier in Data Security: Final Thoughts from Symantec Vision 2013

The Coming Identity Based Network Management Revolution; Interview with Blackridge Technology CTO John Hayes, Part III

Symantec Vision 2012 Exposes Attendees to the Real Threat of Today’s Constant Barrage of Attacks

The Three Practical Use Cases for Network Layer Identification; Interview with BlackRidge Technology CTO John Hayes Part I

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