The ideal state of security would be when a threat agent gets inside your domain, or gets access to your secrets, property etc., but it doesn’t matter.
Hoff kicked off quite the discussion on the Jericho Forum (follow up here with links to the blogs that discussed JF).
This slide deck (pdf), by Andrew Yeomans, [...]
Tags: Frameworks · Jericho Forum · Security · Standards
It was a while ago, but Alice LaPlante lamented the run-in her daughter had with a porn site squatting on a typo of craigslist.com. While it wasn’t available at the time, concerned parents like Alice can use OpenDNS to protect you from inadvertently accessing porn sites and phishing sites. It also speeds your web [...]
Tags: Web Filtering
It turns out that Mike Rothman agrees with me:
Standards are defined in the market……Lots of vendors try to circumvent this natural law and it doesn’t work.
Natural law. Exactly the term that gets me hot.
Tags: Interoperability · Natural Law · Standards
Because the truth is nobody cares about standards - everyone cares about what you can do with interoperable systems.
Amrit wrote recently about The Birth of the Endpoint Protection Platform. Fitting for the guy that wrote about the death of AV by the end of 2007 (3 more months to go!). Amrit believes the [...]
Tags: Endpoint Security · Interoperability · Standards
Much of the web-application attention is focused on applications that were not traditionally on the web; applications like CRMs, word-processing or spreadsheets. Yet, the Web at its finest packs a greater punch in a smaller amount of space. Google web search is the most used web app on the planet, yet it needs [...]
Tags: Web
News.com published an article wondering what legal action could be taken against users and makers of ad-blocking software: Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal
It’s ridiculous for site-owners to worry about this. Users that go through the hassle to use ad-blocking browser plug-ins are unlikely to click ads in the first place. [...]
Patchlink took my advice - sort of. I suggested changing their name to SecureLink after acquiring SecureWave and STAT, but they chose Lumension Security instead.
Their tagline, “Putting Security in a Positive Light”, is a reference to their endorsement of the positive security model they inherited from SecureWave’s Sanctuary, their “application and device [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Endpoint Security · Patch Management · Patchlink · Positive Security Model · Proactive Security · marketing
I recently needed tell a web designer some colors that I liked for a new website I’m working on. I wanted to be specific to try and get the mock-up right as soon as possible. I looked around and tried some color scheme tools. There is a list of some of them [...]
Tags: Web