Securosis Blog

Last week I gave a webinar on database security for ZDNet, sponsored by Oracle. We had an exceptionally good turnout and ran a couple of polls during the session.

SunSec- Next Week!

Rich · January 31, 2008

I got a few emails from people asking to push SunSec up to next week due to upcoming travel, conferences, and training.

Watch A Replay Of My DLP Webcast

Rich · January 31, 2008

Websense posted a replay link for my webcast on DLP.

Here ya go…

While I sometimes get annoyed with various security technologies, there are very few I consider to be complete snake oil.

Dark Reading just posted my column for this month, entitled, “11 Truths We Hate To Admit”. Due to a miscommunication with my editor it reads as if I still live in Boulder, Colorado. I’m really down in Phoenix, but spent most of my adult life in Boulder.

Latest Network Security Podcast Up

Rich · January 30, 2008

While I was traveling home, Martin posted the latest episode of the Network Security Podcast. Our guests this week are Marcin and Andre from http://www.tssci-security.com/. We spend most of the episode talking about web application security issues.

If any of you are involved with the Open Group, I’ll be giving a presentation at the Forum tomorrow in San Francisco. The topic ias:

The Secret Origin of NAC

Rich · January 28, 2008

Once upon a time, an evil virus struck the land. But the people were prepared, and they stopped the virus before too many became sick… or so they thought. The virus really learned to hide, finding a home among wayward travelers outside the gates of the city. Weeks later these travelers returned home and unknowingly infected the cities. And weeks after that the next wave of travelers came to the cities, and more were infected. And then some scientists said, “Enough! No more will we let our…

The Five Laws Of Data Masking

Rich · January 24, 2008

Tomorrow I’ll be giving a webcast over at ZDNet (sponsored by Oracle) on the Top 5 Database Security Resolutions for 2008. The resolutions have changed a bit since I first posted about them over here, and I decided to swap in data masking for the last one. I almost pulled it back out after I found out my sponsor (Oracle) just released a data masking product (I try to avoid being too promotional in my webinars), but it’s something I’ve been talking about for a while and it’s too important to pull…

Over on BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow is doing his best to raise awareness of data breaches in a post entitled, “Database leaks are as immortal and toxic as nuclear spills – let’s start acting like it”.