#10 You can take the nerd out of the cyber war room, but you can’t remove the computers. Actually I found it at http://archives.thedailydose.com/2011/the-daily-dose-Sunday,_2011-05-29,_07:44.html Also a good Abbott and Costello Cyber routine: http://jokes.cc.com/funny-technology/y5spt3/abbott—costello-s-cyber-routine This is a good “Cyber Joke” movie: “The Interview” It is pretty funny – to think that somebody hacked Sony due to … Read more
My own criteria list, although using ideas from a 2012 discussion of NGFW InformationWeek-NetworkComputing: #1 Profitability and longevity. You don’t want to buy a firewall and then have the company have financial problems even 5 years down the road. (so startups need not apply – sorry) #2 Speed throughput – we have to be capable … Read more
“Detection is a Flawed” Strategy by Simon Crosby at Dark Reading: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/times-running-out-for-the-$76-billion-detection-industry/a/d-id/1321381 Simon goes over the problems we have had including the Target failure, where the malware was detected but not acted upon (2014). So the Firewall Industry does sell a difficult job – they do know that breaches occur, there will be breaches. (image … Read more
2 Wired articles : http://www.wired.com/2015/07/senate-bill-seeks-standards-cars-defenses-hackers/ http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ The articles discuss how one industry is using the new Internet connected services and devices to give more functionality to their customers. That’s great right? So what did 2 researchers do 2011? they connected a laptop and controlled the car through the diagnostic connector. The auto industry laughed at … Read more
Why put such an emphasis on keeping up with the Security news? When a new hack comes out it takes time to create the attacks and the defenses, that initial time from the vulnerability being introduced is the most important time you have. Once the Vulnerability is introduced then there is a certain time … Read more
