If you were starting to think that all the talk about cyber security has been a bit overblown, think again. In the Internet of Things — where everything has network connectivity — anything can be hacked that does not have proper security in place. Even a baby monitor, evidently. This doesn’t mean that we’ll never be secure; it just means …
Securing Our eCity, August 15 in San Diego
August 15, 2013 | Morrison & Foerster 12531 High Bluff Drive San Diego, CA 92130-2040 5:30 to 8 PM Business-to-Business Engagement Reception & Dinner Securing Our eCity’s mission is to enable every San Diegan to live, work and play in a cyber safe world. Topic and Presenters/Panelists Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure (3 sectors targeted) Energy – San Diego Gas & …
Blocking Outbound Spam: Your Options
Just say no to spam. Here’s how. By Avi Turiel in The Whir. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- The Options for Blocking Outbound Spam: The Status Quo In a previous post the author discussed some of the problems that outbound spam causes for service providers, such as blacklisting and the related efforts to unblock …
Audacity of DDoS Attacks Up, Up, Up
DDoS bad. Protection Good. Article by Chris Burt in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— DDoS Attacks Increase 20 Percent in Q2 DDoS attacks rose by 20 percent last quarter, and have risen across the board in size, strength, and duration, according to the latest report from DDoS mitigation provider Prolexic. The Q2 2013 report identified …
Cybercrime = Job Loss
Just say no. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— New Report Links Cybercrime to Loss of Half a Million US Jobs Per Year Cybercrime is responsible for the loss of more than half a million US jobs per year, a joint report sponsored by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies finds. Released on Tuesday, “Estimating the …
NIST Cybersecurity Framework Workshop, July 10-12 in San Diego
July 10-12, 2013 | UCSD Mandeville Auditorium 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 8:30 am on Wednesday, July 10 to 12:30 pm on Friday, July 12 NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is the lead Federal agency acting on President Obama’s executive order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, to improve the digital security of our national infrastructure. See …
Cyber Security: Seeing Is Believing — and Understanding
We all know that the speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound; witness lightening and thunder. Similarly, when it comes to information synthesis, it’s not hard to understand that the speed of visual pattern recognition is much faster than the speed of reading, correlating, and absorbing disparate data in multiple formats. This is the future. Summary …
CyberTini, July 10 in San Diego
July 10, 2013 | UCSD Mandeville Courtyard 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 4:30 to 7:00 PM NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is the lead Federal agency acting on President Obama’s executive order 13636 to improve the digital security of our national infrastructure. See http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/executive-order-improving-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity Part of the national effort includes a series of three workshops in …
Enterprises Spend HOW MUCH on Storage?
This is a short but practical (and relevant) article on a survey conducted by NaviSite. The contents speak for themselves. Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Enterprises Spend 25 Percent of IT Budgets on Data Storage: NaviSite Study Most companies allocate 25 percent of their IT budget to …
Fear and Inertia Grasp at Security
Ah fear and inertia, the bane of me and all my sales-and-marketing brothers and sisters out there. Fear of change, fear of the unknown, and prospective customers’ reluctance to try something other beyond the devil that we know. And because perception is reality (for many), this is a real issue that must be overcome. For cloud services, the perceived issue …
