Let’s talk about applications risks.  Internet applications are becoming a threat vectors for the new generation of spyware, viruses and other malware. Many of these applications use evasive tactics to escape detection which includes hiding in encrypted SSL tunnels.  Again, traditional firewalls cannot see inside the encrypted payload therefore, missing the attack completely.  The only [...]

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I’m not saying that all Internet traffic is bad.  Actually, the Internet is a vital extension of today’s corporate networks.  Cloud Computing is becoming increasingly popular however, there are endless streams of consumer and recreational applications that employees are bringing into the network.  You might be familiar with some of them — P2P, IM, Bit-torrent, [...]

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Nobody gets excited about the firewall anymore.  That’s because innovation has been absent from the firewall for the last 15 years.  Traditional firewalls have been out of step with the times for a while now.  The Internet has changed the way we secure our networks.
Years ago the firewall did a pretty good job at controlling [...]

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The old port-blocking firewalls have not really changed in 15 years and really are no longer effective in protecting the corporate perimeter.  That’s because they were not designed to control all of the evasive, port-hopping, or encrypted Internet applications, content and threats that are common in today’s networks.  People have tried to compensate for the [...]

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The lead story in last night’s news, “Feds Announce ‘Largest’ ID Theft Case“, investigators broke up a major hacking ring allegedly responsible for stealing and selling more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers.  Federal indictments were handed down to 3 men for allegedly hacking into wireless computer networks of several major corporations, including [...]

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Dave Jevans, CEO of IronKey and chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.antiphishing.org), wrote a post on his blog the other day about using IronKey’s SecureSessions service for Web surfing and checking Web email while in Beijing at the Summer Olympic Games. SecureSessions encrypts all outbound traffic, and routes it through IronKey servers around the [...]

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It’s 10:20AM on a beautiful, 60-degrees, Sunday morning in Miami. I’m sitting in Starbucks, at my favorite table, drinking my usual double-tall, extra-dry, soy cappuccino listening to the eclectic jazz tunes playing throughout the store, catching up on my well overdue industry news.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
W A I T    [...]

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