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Why Many Smart Security People Aren’t Social

by Jon Speer

Most of us know and follow a variety of really smart people who say a lot of smart things, but occasionally one of these things sticks and becomes a new lens for how we process the world around us.   I’ve recently realized that a November post from Rajesh Setty’s blog, “Why MANY smart people [...]

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Predicting the top 10 Infosec Predictions for 2012

Predicting the top 10 Infosec Predictions for 2012

by Dwayne Melancon

This is the time of year when you start seeing lots of predictions about things that will happen next year.  With that in mind, I thought I would predict the predictions I think we’ll see for 2012.

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Understanding the Cost of Compliance — Part IV

by Cindy Valladares

This is the fourth and final blog in my series of Understanding the Cost of Compliance, and I’ll discuss the per capita cost of compliance and non-compliance. The True Cost of Compliance report estimates the cost of compliance to be $3.5M and the cost of non-compliance to be $9.3M. In my conversations with practitioners, I’ve [...]

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The Tripwire IT Security Incident Top 5 (or is it Bottom 5?) for 2010

by ~Previous Contributers

What are your Top 5 IT Security Events for 2010?
Needless to say, it got the hamster wheel spinning faster than usual. Any time I’ve been asked to cobble together a list of “Top anythings”, it has always been akin to “What are your Top 5 bands or movies?” By that, I mean, they usually change George Costanza-style on the drive home (video) (ohhhhh, I should’ve said ).

With that in mind, here are my Top 5 IT Security Stories/Incidents worthy of consideration in no particular order, with a detailed rationale for each of my choices. Agree? Disagree? Think of one on the drive home? Fire away in the comment section.

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Clouds and Snake Oil

by Dwayne Melancon

At the VMworld conference a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to several customers who are being approached by people who purport to offer magical cloud services that (at least according to the vendors) make life effortless, compliant, secure, and error-free. This is a recurring problem in IT: some hot topic emerges, and lots [...]

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Poll: What’s up with the Cloud thing?

by Dwayne Melancon

Just spent a week at VMworld, and the Cloud buzz (hype?) was everywhere. Between VMware and its partners, all trying to out-Cloud each other, you’d think this was the next best thing since Google. So, my questions are: How will the current Cloud push be different from the ASP model we saw come & go [...]

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