Jon's Network

UPDATE: More on the Patchlink name change here Patchlink has announced that they will acquire SecureWave, which adds endpoint security to their recent acquisition of the vulnerability scanner STAT Guardian (now Patchlink Scan), and their existing prowess at automated patch management. Last Fall, I told Patchlink that Bit9 would be a good buy for them, [...]

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How do we protect companies from malware that no one has ever seen before? In this podcast we touch briefly on the well-known malware problem and how Webwasher tackles it at the gateway with their Anti-Malware Module. Using a combination of signatures, heuristics and behavior analysis (proactive detection in marketing lingo), they can stop more [...]

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For Jon’s Network Podcast Number 3, I spoke with Chris Nickerson, Director of Security Services for Alternative Technology, an Arrow Company. He knows the security industry well having held high level positions at Shook, Hardy and Bacon, Sprint and KPMG. He discusses the balance between check-box compliance and intelligent risk mitigation as well as the [...]

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Oliver Braekow, Webwasher product manager for Secure Computing, was the guest of the first Jon’s Network Podcast. Oliver explains how, using their SSL scanner module, Webwasher prevents malware from using HTTPS to communicate. It will also prevent users from bypassing traditional web content filters using popular CGI proxies. This is important to keep sensitive information [...]

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Can you guess the vendor? I watched a web demo yesterday. Here are my notes from the strategic portion that demonstrate well how list based solutions are no match for today’s threats. Which vendor gave the presentation? Problems no outbound inspection no anti-malware protection from live web pages (web 2.0 pages with more user generated [...]

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This Times article details a new technique that criminals could use to steal your log-in information.  It only works if they have the password to your router.  Since most casual internet users don’t even know they have a router, their routers still have the default passwords such as "admin". (The article estimates that 50% are [...]

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