Rules revised. As suggested by windexh8er, here’s a set of ipfw rules to customize for your own Macs or FreeBSD systems. Note that your private home network should have a non-standard IP range, both to support VPN across standard IP ranges, and for improved security, so your personal allow rules don’t match other networks you may find yourself wandering through. The rules are below, but you’ll probably have an easier time if you download the rule file from…
While I was off traveling, Martin posted the latest episode of the Network Security Podcast. Rather than posting the show notes here, I’d like to redirect you to our new site: NetSecPodcast.com. This is where we’ll be posting all the show notes, taking feedback on episodes, and posting any content and updates directly related to the show.
I’ve been invited to give the keynotes at both the SANS Data Leakage Summit and the Mobile Encryption Summit. Both are at the Dolphin hotel at Disney in Orlando. The DLP event is on December 3rd and 4th, and the encryption event on the 5th and 6th.
I was quite bemused today to read this article in NetworkWorld that Google’s Postini is jumping into DLP.
Google”s Postini division today announced that its e-mail-content-filtering service has been enhanced to detect “logical expressions,” such as credit-card data and Social Security numbers. … Adam Swidler, Postini senior product manager, says the e-mail security service includes filtering of more “sophisticated expressions” that extend beyond Postini”s earlier limits to keywords. “This is…
I’ll be on the “Threats Jeopardy” panel at 11:15 over in Yerba Buena Theater.
Meetings are booked up for the day, but I’ll be back in the area on the 29th.
Amrit Williams dropped a post on some of the new cases, and new penalties, for certain kinds of cybercrime. In it he states:
This isn’t a shopping holiday. It’s time to give thanks to those who defend us all, regardless of your feelings towards any officials (elected or otherwise).
I woke up in a pretty good mood this morning. First of all, it’s Friday and I can just feel the weekend oozing around the corners of the neighborhood. Sure, every day is either a Friday or a Monday when you’re self employed, but there’s still something special about the official weekend.
Updated- based on a challenge in email, and redoing some math, I’m going out on a limb and revising my market projections down. My best guess is the market will do closer to $80M this year, unless Q4 is unusually strong.
I’ve been covering the Data Loss Prevention/Content Monitoring and Filtering space pretty much since before it existed and it’s been pretty wild to watch a market grow from it’s inception to early mainstream. It’s also a weird experience to stand on the sidelines and watch as all the incredibly hard work of contacts in various vendors finally pays off.