We are running a retrospective during RSA because we cannot blog at the show. We each picked a couple posts we like and still think relevant enough to share. I picked a 2011 post on Hammers and Homomorphic Encryption, because a couple times a year I hear about a new startup which is going to revolutionize security with a new take on homomorphic encryption. Over and over. And perhaps some day we will get there, but for now we have proven technologies that work to the same end. (Original post with…
This paper originally started with a blog post called Inflection. Sure, many of our papers start as a series of posts, but this time the post came long before I thought of a paper. I started seeing a bunch of interrelated trends, and what appeared to be some likely unavoidable outcomes. Unlike most predictive pieces, I focused as much on inherent security trends as on disruptive forces. Less “new attacks” and more “new ways we are doing things”.
As we continue our journey down memory lane I want to take a look at what I said about the RSA/NetWitness deal back in April 2011, when it was announced. In hindsight the NetWitness technology has become the underlying foundation of RSA’s security management and security analytics offerings, so I underplayed that a bit. EnVision is pretty much dead. And we haven’t really seen a compelling alternative on the full packet capture and analytics front. Although a bunch of bigger SIEM players started…
Wow! Sometimes we find things in the archives that still really resonate. This is a short one but I’ll be damned if I don’t expect to see this exact phrase used on the show floor at RSA this week.
This has always been one of my favorite posts, and it is one I still use regularly. I even have a slide on it in my RSA presentation for this week.
All of us Securosis folks will be at the RSA Conference this week, so we figured we’d pre-load some old stuff to get a feel for how our research positions turned out. Mine is really old, digging back into the archives from when I had just started Security Incite. Each year I put together a set of Incites that reflected what I expected to happen that year.
This post doesn’t hold up that well, but it goes back to 2006 and the first couple weeks the site was up. And I think it is interesting to reflect on how my thinking has evolved, as well as the landscape around the analysis.
Yesterday Apple released iOS 7.06, an important security update you have probably seen blasted across many other sites. A couple points:
We may have gone too far.
Okay, not really, but we hope you enjoy this beer-fueled extended episode of the Securosis Firestarter. Clocking in at a full hour, we prep and review the upcoming RSA show, which is really our way of covering how we think the year in the security industry will look.
It is 6:44pm as I write this.
Adrian just left after we recorded our first extended Firestarter/Happy Hour.
The idea was that he would drive down, we would dial Mike in from Atlanta, talk about RSA stuff, Adrian would leave, and I would finish off work.