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RSA 2010: We’re vulnerable to code that wasn’t financed by blue chip companies

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Tom Ptacek (@tqbf) is a Principal at the vulnerability research firm Matasano. While his organization has been analyzing software vulnerabilities for years, Ptacek’s current charge is to study the hundreds of lines of insecure code still running on servers in critical [...]

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RSA 2010: Improve security by doing your part in the ecosystem

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. During the keynote at the RSA Conference 2010, Scott Charney of Microsoft talked about trustworthy computing and end-to-end security. That security is a concern on every layer, not just the PC. I summarized Charney’s presentation in my post, “Security isn’t your [...]

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RSA 2010: Security Industry Analysts’ Roundtable

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. I attended a really good panel of security industry analysts tackling many different security issues. On the panel were: Jonathan Penn, Vice President at Forrester Christian Christiansen, Program Vice President, Security Products & Services at IDC John Pescatore, Vice President at [...]

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RSA 2010: Security isn’t your company’s issue. It’s a shared responsibility

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Get ready for a long title and a long award name… Malcolm Harkins, CISO and General Manager of Enterprise Capabilities Controls and Compliance Intel Corporation won award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices Award. On accepting the award, Harkins [...]

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A tale of three cities

by Dwayne Melancon

In the past few weeks, I have been at a VMware partner conference, the RSA security conference, and (this week) the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) event. This has meant travel to Orlando, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. It’s been interesting to see what themes or trends are the same across these three events, and which [...]

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Calling all Systems Center Users – You can Tell your Compliance Officer to speak SCOM to You

by Rekha Shenoy

I was visiting a customer last week talking about how they use Tripwire Enterprise. The security and system administrator was by all standards at the top of her game. She and one other person had deployed over 100 Tripwire Enterprise agents in a couple of days and had meaningful reports for their security team in [...]

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