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RSA Codebreakers Bash Vespa Winner!

by Maya Kamoshita

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a month since RSA/B-Sides SF 2011! The winner of the Vespa that Tripwire gave away at this year’s Codebreakers Bash at San Francisco City Hall was Hart Rossman (@HartDanger), CTO for Cyber Security Solutions at SAIC. He was kind enough to share a picture of his shiny new [...]

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The SC Magazine Award goes to…

by ~Previous Contributers

A few weeks back during the RSA Conference in San Francisco Tripwire was a part of the SC Magazine Awards.  We were awarded the Best Enterprise Security Solution.  It was a great event.  A bunch of us got all suited up like penguins and had a great time.  I wanted to share some of the [...]

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Zombies Invade the 2011 RSA Conference at the Petcha Kutcha Event

by ~Previous Contributers

There is an event each year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco called Petcha Kutcha.  I had heard good things about it and it sounded a lot like Ignite so I decided to check it out.  According to Wikipedia this is what a Petcha Kutcha is: Pecha Kucha Night was devised in February 2003[2] by [...]

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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 [...]

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Mobile security has to be done in the cloud

by David Spark

The only way to do mobile security is through the cloud. Mobile phones have many limitations, most notably the fact that they can’t multi-task. You can’t really run constantly updating anti-virus in the background. The device can only handle one app at a time. Plus you can’t auto-start services like we used to with the [...]

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Cool interactive video screen at Tripwire booth

by David Spark

At the RSA Conference, I chatted with Jordan Pollacco of the VMC Group, an experiential marketing firm, about the interactive screen they installed in the Tripwire booth. The screen detects people in front of it when someone the camera sees that someone has interrupted the infrared light. Once the interruption is detected, it causes activity [...]

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