Last night I managed to pull a serious Munson. My car battery was dead, so I jumped it from my wife’s car. Then both batteries were dead (her car literally shut down when I tried to start mine). Then my brother in law came over, and managed to jump both cars. We left them running, then turned them off- and both were dead again. One more trip from my brother in law and we were up and running. We drove around for a bit and then stopped to run an errand. We stopped, and restarted, one car at a time…
Finally took the plunge last week- I went out and bought a Mac. Actually, I bought a couple of them. That was not what I originally intended, as my plan was to get a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro and a high-end monitor to go with it. But every time I sat down in front of my wife’s iMac, I was really impressed with the quality of the display and the simplicity of the machine itself. When I learned the 24-inch version had the Core 2 Duo at 3GHz, I was sold. Given the amount of travel I do I needed a…
When was the last time you thought about your email security? Have you reviewed the vendors or the market lately? If not, it may be time. It is no surprise that the market is mature; read the collateral and the discussion has long since moved away from technology nuances- rather it is reputational risk reduction & business function continuity. It is no longer startups but some of the largest firms in security. And while not seeing a lot of growth in the segment, we are starting to see…
As I write this, the Dow is down nearly 600, Congress struggles to pass a bailout bill, and both the Broncos and Buffs lost over the weekend.
As most of you know, Adrian and I have been pretty slammed lately; bouncing all over the inter-tubes (and airports) on our quest to save freedom and not default on our mortgages. One thing we’ve been wanting to do for a while is summarize everything that’s been going on through the week in a bit more of a structured format, a la Rothman’s Daily Incite. But we’re not nearly as motivated as Mike, but we figure we can handle once a week before we attend the official Securosis Weekly Research…
Over at the Washington Post they note that it looks like a “McCain Wins Debate” ad and quote accidently leaked before the… you know… debate actually happens.
Some days I feel the suffocating weight of travel more than others. Typically, those days are near the end of a long travel binge; one lasting about 3 months this time.
Thanks to Slashdot, here’s a story on Adobe PDF vulnerabilities:
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the file formats of choice commonly used in today”s enterprises, since it’s widely deployed across different operating systems. But on a down-side this format has also known vulnerabilites which are exploited in the wild.
Over at Emergent Chaos, Adam raises the question of whether we are seeing more data breaches, or just more data breach reporting. His post is inspired by a release from the Identity Theft Resource Center stating that they’ve already matched the 2007 breach numbers this year.
A number of months ago when Rich released his paper on Database Activity Monitoring, one of the sections was on Alerting. Basically this is the analysis phase, where the collected data stream is analyzed in context of the policies that are to be enforced, and the generation of an alert when a policy is violated. In that section he mentioned the common types of analysis, and one other that is not typically available but makes a valuable addition: Heuristics. I feel this is an important tool for…