Jon’s Network

If you google Sophos vs Eset the first result is this pdf document hosted at Eset’s site that is basically a common “beat sheet” that all vendors create. Most beat sheets are made for the internal sales teams or resellers and are marked something like “confidental - do not share outside of Company [...]

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I sent a network admin an email last week with some links in the body. One of the links was to Sunbelt Software. The admin never got it because their Barracuda Spam Firewall blocked it. Why? Because it had a link to Sunbelt’s website in the body:

I have heard of anti-spam solutions [...]

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Another nice bit of information about insurance markets from the Cyberinsurance article I blogged earlier:

Fire insurance markets thus involve not only underwriters, agents, and clients, but also code writers, inspectors, and vendors of products and services for fire prevention and protection. Although government remains involved, well-functioning markets for fire insurance keep the responsibility [...]

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Any such security regulation can only reduce the amount of wealth and comfort the economy produces because it is foisting one man’s values upon another - “for the public good”.

At Bejtlich’s recommendation, I read with great interest Cyberinsurance in IT Security Management by Walter S. Baer and Andrew Parkinson. The bulk of the paper [...]

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