Big Data? Is There Any Bigger Data Than Your Security Data?
The idea of “big data” has technology vendors and customers alike scrambling to come up with ways to manage the limitless amounts of data being generated by apps, API’s, databases, web services, etc. For organizations with aggressive security and compliance requirements, the security data driving today’s modern threat and risk intelligence (assessments, compliance reports, attack…
You Will Know It When You See It
One of most talked about topics at the just completed Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit in San Diego was advanced persistent threats. While it may be hard to define, and I will leave that to the experts at Gartner, based on the level of discussion at the event and all the available data this is a topic you will get to know in the near future.
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Austin Powder uses PowerBroker to Implement Least Privilege
Austin Powder, a manufacturing firm based in Ohio, faced an interesting challenge of taking their company to a least privilege model. They also needed to reduce malware threats within the organization. At the start of the project, the company knew little about the least privilege model. They began to develop an in-house solution, a wrapped…
In The Cloud You Don’t Want To Be Sudo Wrestling!
In a recent discussion with several customers we asked a questions, “How many of you are deploying clouds?”, everyone raised their hand. Then we asked similar questions about public and private clouds. Everyone still raised their hand. Many companies are implementing new infrastructure that includes both private and public cloud. This is often referred to…
Born To Run…and Can Your Cloud Escape Injury?
There’s a lot of hype in the running community over the 2009 book by Christopher McDougal, “Born To Run.” It has inspired a host of people–experienced runners and average Joes–to switch to barefoot running, where people where either nothing on their feet at all or some sort of minimalist shoe. The most headturning of these minimalist shoes have to be the Vibram Five Fingers shoes. You’ve seen them–they look like gloves for feet.
On False Senses of Security
Customer conversations are the best part of my job. I really enjoy talking with users and buyers of security technology, especially in today’s hyperactive threat and attack climate. Most often these conversations are with customers proactively planning updates to their security strategy, or with prospects that have matured to a level where their tools need to be upgraded to enterprise solutions. However, there is small percentage of organizations we speak with who have come to eEye as a result of breach or a failed audit. One of *those* conversations was the impetus for this post.
Size Doesn’t Matter When it Comes to Insider Threats
Rogue employees can be found at Fortune 500 companies down to small businesses with less than ten employees. If there is one thing we know, insider threats don’t discriminate based on size. Many small businesses unfortunately suffer from the “it won’t happen to me” denial syndrome. Yet according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Report to the Nation, the median loss suffered by organizations with fewer than 100 employees was $200,000.
Public Sector Faces Insider Threats Too
Good people do bad things in the public as well as the private sector. It doesn’t matter the type or industry of an organization when sensitive information networks are breached.
It’s 11.11.11 Is Your Cloud More Secure?
As more and more of you drive to cloud-based applications and infrastructure because you are experiencing the pressures from management who seem to buy every single bit of hype generated by the press, it becomes clear where the biggest concerns arise. Namely security.
Group Policy Delegation and PowerBroker Desktops
Group Policy provides powerful controls over desktop configuration, and it includes full delegation capabilities to allow network administrators to delegate Group Policy configuration tasks to others. Since Group Policy has so many powerful capabilities, it is critical to delegate certain tasks to other network administrators, without giving them Domain Admin rights or full edit rights over the entire Group Policy Object (GPO).
