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Senator Ron Wyden Visits Tripwire for Cybersecurity Advice

by admin

This week US Senator Ron Wyden stopped by the Tripwire corporate offices in downtown Portland for a briefing on our alignment with cybersecurity. The visit is all part of our on-going commitment to the US Federal Government market. Senator Wyden is leading US government efforts to strengthen cybersecurity. Because of the recent emergence of Open [...]

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RSA 2010: End of day show report from Alex Howard of SearchCompliance.com

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Alex Howard (@digiphile) of SearchCompliance.com gave a great summary of the first full day at the RSA Conference. He summed up what he saw with these four points: 1. Howard Schmidt, the President’s Cyber Czar announced new metrics that will give [...]

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RSA2010: Benefits of working with government to catch cybercriminals

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Just before they began their panel at RSA 2010 entitled “A 360-Degree View into Data Breaches: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?” (Read my summary of the discussion) I quickly interviewed three of the panelists about their upcoming discussion. In the [...]

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RSA 2010: A 360-Degree View into Data Breaches: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Businesses’ fear of negative publicity actually benefits cybercriminals. A company gets negative press, they fear retaliatory lawsuits, and therefore climb into a shell refusing to work with law enforcement or other organizations. This makes us all vulnerable. Today’s panel of regulators, [...]

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Nice to see NIST is finally updating their recommendations for IT security controls

by ~Previous Contributers

A colleague of mine sent over this article about NIST updating their recommendations (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-53/800-53-rev3-IPD.pdf) for IT Security controls and I have a couple of quick thoughts on it.. Risks and threats are always evolving and I for one like to see our Government departments involved in this showing more leadership here. IMO we have too [...]

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