http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2014-04-01 01:45:43 - Amrit Williams Blog : Aims to bring clarity to cloudy marketing messages through exhibit hall chotskies Bedford, MA, April 1, 2014 RSA, the security division of EMC, today announced their intentions to end the popular RSA security conference and establish a new cloud-security, cloud-only conference RSA plans to leverage the increasing popularity and VC spending on cloud-security http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/505788.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/505788.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-21 20:49:37 - Amrit Williams Blog - Some of my so-called friends that help organize the RSA Security Bloggers event have decided that folks that attend should actually have blogged something recently, well I haven t so to make them happy With the increasing frequency and severity of advanced threats perpetrated by highly-organized and sophisticated groups and nation-states, enterprises need to realize that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/429212.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/429212.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-02-29 10:03:52 - Amrit Williams Blog - I am not a big fan of AT T here , but this video from AT T released in 1990 is about the most insightful view into modern day infosec I ve ever seen here and since it was produced pre-brick walls on fire and simple clouds to depict complex relationships it is more believable than most security marketing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/360554.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/360554.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-12-09 07:09:22 - Amrit Williams Blog - I am not a number, I am a free man IDC reported that we generated and replicated 18 zettabytes that s 18 trillion gigabytes of data in 2011 To give you an example of scale you would need to stack CDs from Earth to the Moon and Back again twice to represent http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/346251.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/346251.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-12-08 11:23:29 - Amrit Williams Blog - On December 1, 2011 a Class-action lawsuit was filed in United States District Court Northern District of California against Hewlett-Packard, alleging violations of The California Consumer Legal Remedies Act for Injunctive Relief and the California Unfair Competition Law based on non-disclosure of a known security vulnerability read the filing here Nature of the Action l http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/346056.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/346056.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-11-03 20:26:46 - Amrit Williams Blog - This post is dedicated to the memory of Stephanie Renee Fong When I was in my early 20s I met a young women named Stephanie, we quickly grew very close Stephanie was special to me in many http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/338715.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/338715.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-21 20:22:20 - Amrit Williams Blog - I love data, I love the benefits that data analysis offers, and I love the concept of large amounts of data being massaged, queried, and providing insights through a whole new set of technical innovations and there are many in data right now In fact I believe that this year has probably been the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/330229.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/330229.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-21 02:37:19 - Amrit Williams Blog - We have entered a new era of information technology, an era where the clouds are moist, the data is obese and incontinent, and the threats are advanced, persistent, and the biggest ever Of course with all the paradigm-shifting, next generation, FUD vs ROI marketing, its important to remember that sometimes we need to balance innovation http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/330066.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/330066.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-10 09:38:20 - Amrit Williams Blog - So recently I posted some thoughts on big data and the increasing usage of Hadoop, the general theme was data management data analysis this caused confusion with some folks, as evidenced by the twitter exchange tweets haven t been altered but some extraneous noise removed to maximize your reading pleasure Beaker amrittsering I m confused by your last blog http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/328142.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/328142.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-10 04:25:53 - Amrit Williams Blog - Big data is a scorching hot topic, currently capturing a lions share of the markets available stock of hyperbole and for good reason, data is growing at a meteoric rate As we continue to innovate, as business accelerates technology adoption, as the line bleeds between corporate and personal computing and as we interact more in digital mediums http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/328131.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/328131.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-04 03:19:26 - Amrit Williams Blog - You re not really sure how it happened, but some time between last year and the summer of 2011 you were suddenly facing a big data problem, or you were being told you were facing a big data problem, or more accurately you were being told that you needed a big data solution Funny thing was http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/326968.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/326968.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-01 21:07:43 - Amrit Williams Blog - It is the foundation for the free market system and capitalism and it is every entrepreneurs dream build a great technology, execute and achieve excellence in GTM, deliver fantastic value to customers and take great pride in watching your passion grow fast Then it happens the exit, the liquidation event, the golden ticket and in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/326569.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/326569.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-09 20:50:12 - Amrit Williams Blog - Provocative title Yeah, did that on purpose So it appears the Internet went down, or so many claimed when they were presented with 404 errors when attempting to watch Georgia Hillbilly Massacre 17 The return of the Banjo Man on Netflix - because they certainly weren t queuing up the latest and greatest new release http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/322035.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/322035.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-07-26 01:38:41 - Amrit Williams Blog - Information is not knowledge Albert Einstein I recently read a couple of posts about BigData from my friend Chris Hoff - Infosec Fail The Problem With BigData is Little Data and More on Security and BigData Where Data Analytics and Security Collide In these posts Hoff posits that the mass centralization of information will benefit the industry and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/319205.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/319205.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 01:07:38 - Amrit Williams Blog - Someone sent me this quote in an attempt to convince me that we should focus on vulnerabilities and not threats I don t think they are mutually exclusive, but here nor there Our data tells us that focusing on vulnerabilities is more effective in reducing risk than focusing on threats In fact, of nine specific types of threats we http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246893.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246893.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 01:07:38 - Amrit Williams Blog - CSC Launches Enhanced Global StrikeForce Security Assessment Suite FALLS CHURCH, Va, Aug 30 CSC NYSE CSC announced today that it launched its enhanced CSC Global StrikeForce Security Assessments, a suite of elite services performed by a highly skilled global team of certified and licensed cybersecurity experts The CSC Global StrikeForce Security Assessments evaluate the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246892.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246892.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-07-02 18:15:10 - Amrit Williams Blog - I will post more later but given all the blood, sweat, and tears we have poured into BigFix we are extremely excited about this move IBM and BigFix are a great fit The product portfolios are very complementary data center to the endpoint , the strategy and vision are well-aligned automated service management and convergence and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/237207.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/237207.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-06-25 04:30:02 - Amrit Williams Blog - Recently I wrote a guest editorial for Virtual Strategy Magazine, although I have to admit I wasn t made aware of my goofy picture look away I m hideous until the article was published You can find the full contents at Virtual Strategy Magazine From the article here As I was pondering the challenges of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/234893.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/234893.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-06-11 20:09:32 - Amrit Williams Blog - I wouldn t normally read Rolling Stone but strolling through the airport I noticed The Biggest Cyber Crime in History Sex, Drugs Hackers Gone Wild on the cover and like passing a train wreck you can t help but stare at I had to buy a copy, that and it appears that Russel Brands armpit http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/230784.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/230784.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-21 21:53:04 - Amrit Williams Blog - Michal Zalewski, a security researcher at Google, recently wrote a guest editorial for ZDNet entitled Security Engineering Broken Promises The article lays out a series of issues with the security industry, specifically looking at an inability to provide any suitable frameworks for software assurance or code security We have in essence completely failed to come up with even the most http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/224540.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/224540.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-23 09:36:34 - Amrit Williams Blog - Back to Basics What is a Client Hosted Virtual Desktop CHVD Client virtualization refers to the combination of a management system and a hypervisor on a client PC, utilizing the local resources to execute the operating system Figure 1 different desktop virtualization models segmented by central vs distributed computing environment support and reliance on operating system What http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/215265.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/215265.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-01 03:53:15 - Amrit Williams Blog - Beijing, China April 1, 2010 The Chinese government announced that effective immediately all US based technology firms and associated products and services will be banned from all Chinese government and state-run agency IT environments The ban is expected to include critical infrastructure, such as military, finance, utilities, and healthcare as well as education, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/207733.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/207733.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-25 21:46:22 - Amrit Williams Blog - From my recent posting on Computer World UK here Whenever I hear the phrase identity theft, I can only imagine what the late, great Rodney Dangerfield would have made of it Some guy in Moldova stole my identity The FBI said, and you want it back No respect Despite what seems to be a public fascination with http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/205509.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/205509.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-23 22:15:45 - Amrit Williams Blog - I recently had an opportunity to discuss desktop virtualization with Bill Brenner from CSO online you can listen to the podcast here , you can also listen to the most recent Beyond the Perimeter podcast which focuses on Desktop Virtualization here http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/204613.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/204613.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-26 23:18:11 - Amrit Williams Blog - We all know that IT security and operations is becoming a more challenging and untenable problem day by day see Top 10 Reasons Your Security Program Sucks and Why You Can t Do Anything About it The reality is that we continue to build on top of inherently insecure and fundamentally weak foundations, such http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/196081.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/196081.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-09 18:43:16 - Amrit Williams Blog - To economists, the term Broken Windows refers to the question that if a shopkeeper pays a glazier to repair a broken window at his store, does this deliver an economic benefit to society Many people would say yes, because it generates demand for glass and work for the glazier Have you ever been witness to the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/190099.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/190099.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-05 18:45:19 - Amrit Williams Blog - Hardly a day goes by with some news article, op ed piece, or screaming commentator on a bottom of the dial cable channel proclaiming the dire prospects of cyber war But unlike traditional kinetic wars with identifiable enemies, overt acts of war, and some notion of what constitutes victory, we re still at the stage where http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/189027.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/189027.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-02 22:02:15 - Amrit Williams Blog - The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami a catastrophe, the UN official said, highlighting examples such as attacks on Estonia last year Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/187862.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/187862.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-22 00:11:31 - Amrit Williams Blog - this post is dedicated to all those I have debated poorly on twitter and in blogs I must admit that I do enjoy the experience of a good debate, the adrenaline rush, the give and take with a qualified adversary, the thrill of victory and hopefully the expanse of ones views So often though many http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/184241.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/184241.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-06 08:07:09 - Amrit Williams Blog - In the security industry we like to fool ourselves into thinking that we can materially impact an organizations security posture We believe that new tools, a new framework, a new regulation, a new school of thought will lift the veil of organizational ignorance and enable us to attain the state of enlightened security practitioner But as http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178680.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178680.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-22 17:54:16 - Amrit Williams Blog - After what few probably realize was a tremendous amount of political posturing President Obama has finally appointed Howard Schmidt as US Cybersecurity Coordinator Schmidt who also served as a cybersecurity adviser under President Bush will be responsible for establishing, defining and coordinating cybersecurity across public and private critical infrastructure I have worked with Howard and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/174981.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/174981.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 22:38:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - AT T has openly admitted that their data coverage sucks here and all but admitted defeat in the telcom data wars although they are the sole service provider of the iPhone the world s most pervasive handheld data device AT T has decided that for them to maintain the service quality which already blows they will http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170749.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170749.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-10 22:38:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - Riddle me this When one does not know what it is, then it is something But when one knows what it is, then it is nothing what is it Recently we have witnessed a series of high-profile leaks, this in and of itself is nothing new we have been experiencing an orgy of disclosure since the early http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170748.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/170748.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-11 22:15:24 - Amrit Williams Blog - Image from United States Department of Veterans Affairs here We should all be extremely grateful for the commitment, the difficulties and the sacrifices those in our armed forces go through so that we all can enjoy and experience the freedoms of our great nation http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/159936.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/159936.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-23 01:53:54 - Amrit Williams Blog - A storm is brewing throughout the analyst community as one of the largest and most influential technology analyst firms comes under fire for one of their highest prized research artifacts The Gartner Magic Quadrant MQ ZL Technologies has filed a lawsuit alleging damages from Gartner s Email and Archiving MQ and the MQ process http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/153226.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/153226.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-01 10:01:38 - Amrit Williams Blog - http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/146358.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/146358.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-17 06:37:32 - Amrit Williams Blog - From Computer World UK here There is little doubt that advances in technology have radically changed many aspects of our lives, from healthcare to manufacturing, from supply chains to battlefields, we are experiencing an unprecedented technical revolution Unfortunately, technology enables the average person to leak personal information at a velocity that few understand Take a moment and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/141736.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/141736.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-09 21:57:45 - Amrit Williams Blog - I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Peter Kuper and discuss the impact the economic crisis has had on the IT security industry on the latest Beyond the Perimeter podcast here Peter Kuper, former analyst Morgan Stanley and SC Gowen, now associated with the IANS Institute for Applied Network Security organization notes that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139317.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139317.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-29 00:42:48 - Amrit Williams Blog - CNET s Declan McCullagh recently posted an article on aspects of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Bill would give President emergency control of the Internet The new version would allow the president to declare a cybersecurity emergency relating to non-governmental computer networks and do what s necessary to respond to the threat Other sections of the proposal include http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135743.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135743.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-27 22:10:18 - Amrit Williams Blog - Is there a rock star in your midst We re talking about sysadmins here the unsung rock stars of IT The kind of sysadmin that plays the network blindfolded and upside down like Stevie Ray Vaughn, makes ch, ch, changes faster than David Bowie, smashes hackers like Pete Townsend does with guitars, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135290.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135290.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-14 01:59:46 - Amrit Williams Blog - Never before have so many misrepresented so much about so little In all my years in the security industry I do not believe I have read more misinformation than the nonsense surrounding the recent DDoS attacks Apparently North Korea is waging Cyber Warfare, or if not an actual all out cyberwar they are behind a targeted http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/120150.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/120150.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-11 19:11:51 - Amrit Williams Blog - To address the increasing cost and complexity of managing dynamic IT environments organizations are trying to understand how to adopt virtualization technologies The value proposition and killer app are quite clear in the data center, however less attention has been given to the opportunities for endpoint virtualization Even though there are multiple methods to address http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119249.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119249.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-23 04:43:30 - Amrit Williams Blog - Systems and security management is difficult, ineffective, costly andbecoming ever more so in increasingly distributed, heterogeneous,complex, and mobile computing environments… 98% of all externalattacks take advantage of poorly administered, misconfigured, andunmanaged systems Source: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report2009 A locked down and well managed PC can cost 42% less than anunmanaged http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112530.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112530.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-15 09:55:38 - Amrit Williams Blog - Consolidation is the major benefit or “killer app” for server/datacenter virtualization Standardization is the major benefit or “killerapp” for client-side virtualization As I was pondering the challengesof current systems management processes, researching the latest andgreatest from the client-side virtualization vendors, and talking to alot of large organizations I was trying to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/109698.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/109698.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-29 23:32:54 - Amrit Williams Blog - Early after President Obama was nominated I wrote an open letter toPresident Obama for actions that I believed the administration wouldneed to take in the first 90-days “Open Letter to Barack Obama:Securing Critical Infrastructure – The First 90 Days” These included apolicy review and some suggestions on methods the administration wouldhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103279.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103279.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-29 10:07:56 - Amrit Williams Blog - Given the media hype around the Conficker worm and now Gumblar, and theconstant barrage of alarming disclosure announcements, I thought itwould be a good time to take a calmer look at some of the securitymyths, misconceptions and mistruths that plague the industry Many ofthese cyber security myths have been around for close http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103028.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103028.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-07 09:48:01 - Amrit Williams Blog - So apparently the latest version of the Qualys Laws of VulnerabiltyReport has Qualys jumping to some pretty outrageous claims about howcloud-computing - invented by Qualys according to Courtot insert cutesmiley here - can secure IT more effectively or allow people to notpatch any more or some such nonsense thanks to Hoff http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93031.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93031.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-06 04:04:29 - Amrit Williams Blog - There has been much discussion lately about “cyberwarfare” This article“US Should go on Cyber Offensive” in the BBC represents the typicalmedia slant on the issue… A US Air Force officer has told the BBC thathis country should create an offensive botnet to target any forcesthat launch a cyber-attack against it Speaking on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92485.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92485.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-05 09:01:15 - Amrit Williams Blog - Yes I know it has been some time since I have posted a blog entry Thepain and suffering this has caused I can only imagine has beenunbearable Many of you must be feeling the nauseating withdrawal likesymptoms of not enough me, but do not fear you will no longer need toremain http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92109.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92109.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-09 07:23:27 - Amrit Williams Blog - I recorded a podcast with eWeek’s Mike Vizard last week discussing themedia, hype, conficker and why so many organizations are fallingbehind in implementing even a basic level of systems and securitymanagement here…enjoyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/81380.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/81380.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-03 03:25:37 - Amrit Williams Blog - Quotes from a recent SC Magazine article “Increased Mobile Working HasCaused a Rethink on Endpoint Security” here focuses on encryption,cloud-computing and desktop virtualization… Data breaches have pointedto the importance of encryption at endpoints that contain businessdata, and growing numbers of businesses are adopting encryptiontechnologies However, Amrit Williams, CTO of BigFix, is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/78692.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/78692.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 00:09:34 - Amrit Williams Blog - Their back It has been awhile since we had a good old fashioned, highlypublicized, hysteria inducing, globally distributed, mass-infectingworm The AV vendors here and here must be ecstatic that 2009 isreally turning out to be the year of the largest security incidentssince the beginning of forever as I predicted it would be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76624.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76624.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-28 07:02:21 - Amrit Williams Blog - So apparently a group of technologists and vendors working under thecloak of digital darkness drew out a pentagram and locked arms as theycalled out to Cthulhu to manifest and drive out those that wouldoppose their ultimate aims of total and complete world dominationDomination brought about through a set of cloud computing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76268.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76268.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-23 21:24:04 - Amrit Williams Blog - Sam Curry from RSA recently posted some thoughts on a paper we have beenworking on and presented at Source Boston here…in the coming weekswe will detail the research and the modifications we have made sincefirst presenting the draft over a month ago Last week, Amrit Williamsand I presented the results of our http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/73885.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/73885.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-17 23:34:32 - Amrit Williams Blog - Trend Micro posted on a recent location-aware malware scheme to targetindividuals using local information here - hat tip to Krebs for thepost here On Monday, security firm Trend Micro began warning peopleto look out for bogus “Reuters breaking news” e-mails warning ofexplosion or other various calamities that have supposedly broken outin http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71904.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71904.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:16:28 - Amrit Williams Blog - There is a new podcasts series that we have recently announced You canreview the first series of podcasts here - we have some reallyexciting guests lined up and rumor has it there will be a co-hostjoining me as well - enjoyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68814.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68814.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-20 02:33:07 - Amrit Williams Blog - I had an interesting conversation with a peer recently that started witha statement he made that “innovation was all but dead in security”The implication was that we had done all we could do and that therewas very little more that would be accomplished Of course I felt thiswas an overly simplistic http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63423.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63423.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-04 06:59:18 - Amrit Williams Blog - The latest video from Demos on Demand here with a lively, funconversation moderated by Stiennon here, including Mckeay here,Murray here, and myself Some people have been telling Mckeay thathe held his own, I think Murray must have hypnotized him - enjoyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/58191.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/58191.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-02 07:25:45 - Amrit Williams Blog - Few things can evoke more uncertainty and doubt than fear here… Thethreat of cybercrime is rising sharply, experts have warned at theWorld Economic Forum in Davos Online theft costs $1 trillion a year,the number of attacks is rising sharply and too many people do notknow how to protect themselves, they said On-line theft costs http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57330.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57330.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-29 06:43:31 - Amrit Williams Blog - Sam Curry of RSA here and I will be presenting on this topic at SourceBoston Security Conference March 11-13th here The lineup looksfantastic and I’m excited about the opportunity to share thisresearch In the meantime and since we haven’t really completed orfully published the paper here is enough to start the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/56267.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/56267.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-21 00:04:22 - Amrit Williams Blog - F-Secure is reporting that 9 million PC’s are now infected with theconficker/downup/downadup/kido worm here, which would make it one ofthe largest and most infectious worms we have seen in a long time Inan era of sophisticated, stealthy, financially motivated cybercrime itis interesting, to say the least, that this worm is garnering http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/53329.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/53329.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-19 23:50:17 - Amrit Williams Blog - I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Stiennon here,Martin Mckeay here and Mike Murray here to discuss a series ofsecurity topics The first discussion focused on DLP and the result ofthat conversation is located here It is always disconcerting to seeyourself in video but the content and conversation http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52934.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52934.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-15 21:25:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - The tragedy of Julie Amero here has finally come to an end Thesubstitute teacher accused of showing pornography to her middle schoolclass, in which a series of incompetent computer experts andoverzealous prosecutors tried to claim that the pornography thatappeared on the school computer browser was deliberately viewed Inreality the computer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51847.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51847.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-15 21:25:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - As most of you have heard the Security Bloggers Network has been moved toLijit, thanks to Alan Shimel here for all of his work on managingthe effort The new security bloggers site is located here, thanksto Tyler Reguly of http://wwwcomputerdefenseorg for handling thelogistics You can subscribe to the new feed http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51846.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51846.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-15 21:25:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - Recently I posted some thoughts on cloud security here, here, andhere The bottom line still holds true… When we allow services to bedelivered by a third party we lose all control over how they secureand maintain the health of their environment and in many cases we loseall visibility into the controls themselves, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51845.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51845.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-15 21:25:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - Quick thought for the day Most technologies in the security world movethrough a predictable cycle of adoption First an organizationimplements a solution to gain visibility into the scope of the problemVA, IDS, DLP/CMF, SIEM then once it becomes apparent that theproblem is vast and overwhelming they move to operationally implementtechnical http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51844.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51844.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-15 21:25:25 - Amrit Williams Blog - Wired reports that the 18 year old hacker age is not relevant but italways fun for the media to point out that some “hacker” is still inhis teens responsible for breaking into Twitters administrativeaccount and gaining access to several celebrity twitter accounts useda password cracker that busted through the weak password http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51843.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51843.shtml