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In our last post we covered the four enterprise key management strategies. Today we will finish off Pragmatic Key Management with recommendations on how to pick the right strategy for your project or organization.

Incite 6/20/2012: That Smell

Mike Rothman · June 20, 2012

Most folks have sights, sounds, and smells that remind them of positive experiences. Maybe from happy childhood days or a great time of life. For me, it’s the smell of the ocean. My Dad always had a boat and I remember some great times sailing on his catamaran as I was growing up. I didn’t spend a lot of time with my Dad growing up, so I loved being out on the water. And we’d bring a bucket of KFC with us, which was also a highlight. Strange, the things you remember 35 years later, eh?

As we wrap up our Evolving Endpoint Malware Detection series, it’s time to take it to the next level. We spent the first three posts on why detection is challenging, the types of behavioral indicators you should look for, and some additional data sources for added context to improve effectiveness and reduce false positives. Now we need to do something with the information we have gathered – basically to provide a verdict on whether something is malware or not, and if it is to block it. Alas,…

Yes, folks, at long last, here is my follow-up to Understanding and Selecting a DLP Solution.

As you might guess from the title, this one is focused on implementation and management. After you have picked a tool, this will help you get up and running, and then keep it running, with as little overhead as possible.

In our last post we covered the components of data encryption systems and ran through some common examples. Now it’s time to move on to key management itself, and dig into the four different key management strategies.

Friday Summary: June 15, 2012

Rich · June 15, 2012

Ah, summer. That time of year where our brains naturally start checking out, even if it’s inconvenient.

You have probably noticed a bit of a slowdown on the blog as we succumb to the sweet call of adventure. And by ‘adventure’ I mean the delicate balance of being way freaking behind while trying to squeeze in family vacations and a few conferences.

As we approach the end of this series, it has become clear that I should really have started with use cases. Not only because they are the primary driver of interest in masking products, but also because many advanced features and deployment models really only make sense in terms of particular use cases. The critical importance of clustered servers, and the necessity for post-masking validation for some applications, are really only clear in light of particular usage scenarios. I will sort this…

As we discussed in the last post, detecting today’s advanced malware requires more than just looking at the file (the classic AV technique) – we now also need to leverage behavioral indicators. To make things more interesting, even suspiciuous behavior can be legitimate in certain circumstances. So for accurate and effective detection you need better context on what the code does, where it came from, and who it came from, in order to reach a reasonable verdict on whether to allow or block…

Market Share Nonsense

Mike Rothman · June 14, 2012

It was bound to become blindingly obvious sometime. The ruse of anyone accurately tracking market share in any market has been a running joke for as long as I can remember. I guess some folks do argue with the so-called market share numbers, like McAfee recently did, but it is usually attributed to sour grapes for those with crappy numbers. I’d say that market share doesn’t matter for end users, but in reality it’s safer to go with a vendor with a large market share. And in today’s tough…

A while back we ran a show-of-hands survey at a conference of senior IT security pros. Nearly none of them wanted to support iOS, but nearly all of them needed to support iOS.