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This is the fourth post in a series on the future of information security, which will be the basis for a white paper. You can leave feedback here as a blog comment, or evensubmit edits directly over at GitHub, where we are running the entire editing process in public. This is the initial draft, and I expect to trim the content by about 20%. The entire outline is available. See the first post, second post, and third post.

As we discussed in Revisiting Security Monitoring, there has been significant change on the security monitoring (SM) side, including the need to analyze far more data sources at a much higher scale than before. One of the emerging data sources is threat intelligence (TI), as detailed in Benefiting from the Misfortune of Others. Now we need to put these two concepts together, to detail the process of integrating threat intelligence into your security monitoring process. This integration can yield…

Firestarter: Inevitable Doom

Rich · February 3, 2014

Okay, let’s just ignore the first part of this Firestarter where we talk about the Denver Broncos, okay? We recorded it on the Friday before the game and, well, enough said.

This is the third post in a series on the future of information security, which will be the basis for a white paper. You can leave feedback here as a blog comment, or evensubmit edits directly over at GitHub, where we are running the entire editing process in public. This is the initial draft, and I expect to trim the content by about 20%. The entire outline is available. See the first post and the second post.

This is the second post in a series on the future of information security, which will be the basis for a white paper. You can leave feedback here as a blog comment, or evendirectly submit edits over at GitHub, where we are running the entire editing process in public. This is the initial draft, and I expect to trim the content by about 20%. The entire outline is available. The first post is available.

Friday Summary: January 31, 2014

Adrian Lane · January 30, 2014

During my total and complete laptop fail for this week’s Firestarter, I was trying to make the point that large software projects have a considerably higher probability of failure. It is no surprise that many government IT projects are ‘failures’ – they are normally managed as ginormous projects with many competing requirements. It worked or the Apollo missions so governments doggedly cling to that validated model. But in the commercial environment Agile is having a huge and positive impact on…

This is the first post in a series on the future of information security, which will be the basis for a white paper. You can leave feedback here as a blog comment, or evendirectly submit edits over at GitHub, where we run the entire editing process in public. This is the initial draft, and I expect to trim the content by about 20%. The entire outline is available.

TISM: Revisiting Security Monitoring

Mike Rothman · January 30, 2014

In our first post on Leveraging Threat Intelligence in Security Monitoring (TISM), Benefiting from the Misfortune of Others, we discussed threat intelligence as a key information source for shortening the window between compromise and detection. Now we need a look in terms of security monitoring – basically how monitoring processes need to adapt to the ability to leverage threat intelligence.

Incite 1/29/2014: Southern Snowpocalypse

Mike Rothman · January 29, 2014

I grew up in the northeast. My memories of snow weren’t really good. I didn’t ski, so all that I knew about snow was that I had to shovel it and it’s hard to drive in. It is not inherently hard to drive in snow, but too many folks have no idea what they are doing, which makes it hard.

Firestarter: Government Influence

Rich · January 27, 2014

In this week’s Firestarter Rich, Mike, and Adrian (until his computer died) discuss the importance (or lack thereof) of the security industry and community in influencing government.