the State of Security

RSA

5 Best Videos from the RSA Conference #RSAC

by David Spark

Two weeks ago I attended the RSA Conference to report on the latest issues in IT security. My team and I produced a ton of coverage and this is a summary post that links you to all that coverage. All the content is published under a Creative Commons license and you’re welcome to reuse and [...]

Read More

Are you aggressive about security enablement?

by David Spark

Do you see security as a threat or security as enablement, asked Lenny Heyman, General Manager of Interop. While Heyman realizes people are concerned with cloud security, you shouldn’t be scared away from the solutions cloud offers. While the cloud has hurdles, they’re realistic. He knows for cloud success it’s going to take experimenting, and [...]

Read More

Creating a long term security plan as opposed to security firefighting

by David Spark

People love stories about breaches, viruses, and zero-day attacks, said Tim Wilson, Editor of Dark Reading. The popularity is reflected in the traffic numbers for these stories. Wilson thinks the popularity of these stories reflects the day-to-day work of their readers. They’re dealing with near term problems. They’re firefighting, taking care of these immediate concerns [...]

Read More

Black Hat’s prediction: A new threat that doesn’t want the network to work

by David Spark

We’re going to be facing a new threat soon that doesn’t want the network to work, said Jeff Moss, founder of Black Hat and DefCon. Moss outlined the two major areas of digital crime. One is organized crime which is interested in money and the second is governments and nation states which are interested in [...]

Read More

RSA Conference: Second day show report from Liquid Matrix

by David Spark

At the end of the second day of the conference, I asked Dave Lewis, Author of the Liquid Matrix security blog, to offer up a summary of what he saw from the show floor at the RSA Conference. Here’s a summary of his points:

Read More

Security B-Sides: Security geeks on a carousel

by David Spark

What more needs to be said? The Security B-Sides attendees got a free ride on a carousel and we shot it.

Read More

← Previous Entries