Expert analysis
Large scale study of SSL configurations
Ivan Ristic is the director of engineering at Qualys and principal author of ModSecurity, the open source web application firewall. In this podcast, Ivan talks about the …
A closer look at Knox for Mac
Knox (v. 2.0.5) is a Mac application that will allow you to create password-protected and encrypted vaults on your computer or to turn an external drive into one in order to …
How to block Flash in Safari
I have been a satisfied Mac user for quite some time now. What I really love about Macs is that they just work. When you spend 10+ hours a day on your computer, you need for …
Security exercise for information infrastructure protection
“Cyber Europe 2010” – the first pan European CIIP (Critical Information Infrastructure Protection) exercise that will test the efficiency of communication …
How to cut costs and still remain secure
You’ve just heard your budgets have been cut once again! This time it’s across all IT and security has got to be slashed too. As a CISO or IT manager, or indeed a …
Are your organisation’s secrets actually secret?
If we look back over recent years, organizations quickly established databases for storing information and, with them, ways to mine these records to squeeze as much …
Sangria, tapas and hackers: SOURCE Barcelona 2010
I am writing this report sitting in an airplane on the tarmac of the Barcelona airport waiting for the traffic controller to give us the green light for departure. There are …
Today’s security landscape: Threats, data breaches and privacy
In this video recorded at the IBM Innovate 2010 conference, Jack Danahy, the Worldwide Security Executive, IBM/Rational at IBM, talks about current threats, data breaches and …
Vulnerability research and disclosure
Richard Brain is the Technical Director at ProCheckUp and in this interview he discusses vulnerability research, his favorite security tools, fuzzing as well as the …
Scaling intrusion prevention systems for 10G, 40G and beyond
The Internet is still growing and, as we make the transition from Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) – driven in part by the fact …
Preparing for a firewall audit
Network security audits are getting a lot of coverage these days thanks to standards like SOX, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA. Even if you don’t need to comply with any of those …
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure
The famous quote from Benjamin Franklin on prevention being better than a cure could easily be applied to the issue of corporate data losses. It’s far better to stop …