Japan Cert technical director discusses FIRST 2009

A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation about addressing the insider threat to database security at the ISACA Network Security conference in Las Vegas (thanks ISACA for having me!). My session covered database security issues in...

Over the last few years, the FIRST conference program has been evolving in order to help CERT teams and corporations around the world keep abreast of the threat landscape and to enable corporations to share their information in a...

Newton’s first law of motion states that a moving body will want to keep moving.  The same law also seems to apply to business data, and the problem is trying to stop that mobile data moving further than you want it...

If you hold a credit card issued in the past 18 months, or use a touchless keycard to open doors at your office, or ride the subway with a reusable fare card, chances are good that you have used a card or ticket with a tiny...

Most people keep the same password for too long and use it for too many purposes. So if you do one thing to mark Computer Security Day on Friday, change your passwords. If you do two things, change your passwords and vacuum your...

Eight new groups of rights holders have joined the legal action against Google-owned video sharing website YouTube. Amongst the eight is Robert Tur, the cameraman who has dropped his existing suit against YouTube to join the...

Now that the FIRST Security Conference is in full swing, SecurityProPortal.com will bring you the latest news from the event. Podcasts of the conference (including interviews with key speakers) will be available to download on...

One well attended all day track at FIRST was the System Network and Security Log Analysis for Incident Response track run by Anton Chuvakin of LogLogic. Unfortunately I was unable to attend this talk although I heard many good...

Now that the FIRST Security Conference is in full swing, SecurityProPortal.com will bring you the latest news from the event.Podcasts of the conference (including interviews with key speakers) will be available to download on...

One of the main attractions of this year’s FIRST event is the emphasis on networking with other security professionals. Certainly from my discussions with various delegates over the last few days – this is one of the main...

Ben Chai, our special envoy in Seville, chats with Skype's Chief Security Office, Kurt Sauer and tells us about the latest news and updates from the event.Listen to this Daily Podcast

So I’m sitting at dinner just chatting with some of the guys and I hear that many of the people have attended other security events such as Infosec, Defcon, Blackhat to name a few in addition to the FIRST one. In fact there are...

A conference that attracts top security professionals from around the world is very tempting to hackers. Unless properly secured, the conference network could be vulnerable to attacks intended to disrupt the conference activity...

ATEN International, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of advanced connectivity solutions, launches the KH98 of its ALTUSEN product line. The 8-Port Health Manager KVM Switch is the market’s first KVM solution to provide...

I have some more details on the CEE effort, which is captured in this brochure. The most interesting part is probably page two where the benefits are outlined. This effort will continue by tackling one of the four standard areas...