Some days I miss when the kids were little. It’s not that I don’t appreciate being able to talk in full sentences, pick apart their arguments and have them understand what I’m talking about, or apply a heavy bit of sarcasm when I respond to some silly request. I don’t think I’d go back to the days of changing diapers, but there was a simplicity to child rearing back then. We don’t really appreciate how quickly time flies – at least I don’t. I blinked and the toddlers are little people. We were…
We are relaunching one of our more popular white papers, Tokenization vs. Encryption: Options for Compliance. The paper was originally written to close some gaps in our existing tokenization research coverage and address common user questions. Specifically, how does tokenization differ from encryption, and how can I decide which to use? We believe tokenization is particularly important, for several reasons. First, in an evolving regulatory landscape, we need a critical examination of…
Endpoint devices have been the bane of security practitioners for as long as we can remember. Whether it’s unknowing users who click anything, folks who don’t think the rules apply to them, or the forgetful sorts who just leave their devices anywhere and everywhere, keeping control over endpoints causes heartburn at many organizations. To address these concerns, Securosis recently published our Endpoint Security Management Buyer’s Guide, which began with a list of the key issues complicating…
Research. It’s what I do. And long before I started work at Securosis I had a natural inclination toward it. Researching platforms, software toolkits, hardware, whatever. I want to know all the facts, and most of the rumors and anecdotes as well. I research things furiously. I’m obsessive about it. I will spend hour upon hour trying to answer every question I come up with, looking at all aspects of a product. This job lets me really indulge that facet of my personality – it makes the job…
Hey everyone,
I am pleased to finally announce the release of Pragmatic Key Management for Data Encryption.
If you didn’t follow the posts that lead to this paper, the focus is on key management strategies for data encryption – rather than on certificate management, signing, or other crypto operations. I was able to narrow things down to four key strategies, and I also spend a little time talking about data encryption systems, as opposed to crypto operations (hashing, algorithms, etc.).
As we have mentioned throughout this series, a strong underlying process is your best defense against a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Tactics change and the attack volumes increase, but if you don’t know what to do when your site goes down it will be down for a while.
One of the things about celebrating a birthday is the inevitable reflection. You can’t help but ask yourself: “Another year has gone by – am I where I’m supposed to be? Am I doing what I like to do? Am I moving in the right direction?” But what is that direction? How do you know?
Between new initiatives like cloud computing, and new mandates due to the continuous onslaught of compliance, managing encryption keys is moving from something only big banks worried about to something popping up among organizations of all sizes and shapes. Whether it is to protect customer data in a new web application or to ensure that a lost backup tape doesn’t force you to file a breach report, more and more organizations are encrypting more data in more places than ever before. And tying…
Whereas defending against volumetric DoS attacks requires resilient network architectures and service providers, dealing with application-targeted DoS puts the impetus for defense back squarely on your shoulders. As discussed in Attacks, overwhelming an application entails messing with its ability to manage session state and targeting weaknesses in the application stack. These attacks don’t require massive bandwidth, bot armies or even more than a well crafted series of GET or POST requests.
Rich here.
If memory serves, I completed my first First Aid/CPR certification when I was around 10. I followed up with lifeguard at 16, ensuring myself a few years of employment as a seasonal professional volleyball player. I completed my EMT and 19 after being dumped by my first girlfriend, when I needed a way to occupy my free time. For some reason it’s hard to get insurance for 19 year-old-males driving things with lights and sirens, so I didn’t get onto my first fire department or ambulance…