Security Current

01/29/2016

Listen to our latest podcast with FirstBank's Greg Schaffer

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Encryption is fundamental to business today. But encryption also allows evildoers to plan nefarious criminal or terrorist acts.  Law enforcement, intelligence agencies and political interests have proposed "back doors" to enable them to do their jobs.  Shades of the cryptographic device, T…

01/29/2016

Informative and entertaining piece on the future of the password with leading security executives weighing in:

Chris Bullock, Aaron’s, Inc. CISO
"Passwords are about as sexy as locking the front door of your house before you leave for work however, that being said, both are still a rudimentary and necessary instrument of security.

"Just like the locks on our front doors can’t stop a determined burglar or home invader 100% of the time, we continue to invest in door locks and alarms to protect our property. Quite similarly, just because thousands of doors continue to be kicked in even when the lock is activated, we don’t decide to stop locking our doors. The lock is simply part of a layered defense model necessary to ensure our safety and secure things of value. Passwords are exactly the same."

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Ten CISOs from across industries weigh in on the effectiveness of passwords, with most predicting that the days are numbered for the password as the sole authentication method. They see enterprises moving to augment or supplant the traditional password with advanced technologies, such as biometrics.

01/26/2016

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., VP Enterprise Security Farhaad Nero relays why CISOs should be concerned about moving to the cloud.

"There are many reasons to move to the cloud. And though you may not have much choice in any event -- you’ve done your research, the RFIs, the RFPs, and the POCs -- you are left with the following concerns that make you wonder if you actually could, should and would avoid the cloud:"

Read the 11 reasons here: http://bit.ly/1numg5z

“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.” Michigan Savings Bank president advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in Ford Motor Company (1903).

01/26/2016

Our March 2016 Security Shark Tank is now full with 26 leading CISOs who will hear from 8 innovative vendors. We'll be highlighting those vendors and CISOs as we approach the event (www.securitysharktank.com)

Check out Security Shark Tank Vendor ProtectWise with its Cloud Network DVR for enterprise security.

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01/20/2016

Watch our sponsor CYREN's on-demand webinar "Exploring Internet Security for Today's Threat Landscape"

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01/13/2016

CISO David Sheidlower: When big data is analyzed, actions can be taken based on that analysis. Hence, the Sanders campaign data analysts (three others aside from Uretsky appear to have accessed the data), if they were intentionally accessing the Clinton data to learn about the opposing campaign’s strategies or develop new ones of their own, were essentially doing what they were hired to do: run queries against the data and get actionable insights from it.

Read more:
http://www.securitycurrent.com/en/ciso_journal/ac_ciso_journal/the-sanders-clinton-data-brouhaha-it-is-not-about-privacy-and-all-about-identity

In August of 2010, Huping Zhou who had served as a researcher at the UCLA School of Medicine and had since been terminated, was sentenced to jail time for inappropriately looking at the medical records of his immediate supervisor and some notable celebrities including Drew Barrymore, Arnold Schwarze…

01/13/2016

Check out the cool emerging companies including User and Entity Behavior Analytics startup Interset that will pitch Security Current's leading panel of CISOs during RSA at the www.securitysharktank.com.

Interesting fact: Interset's CEO is a seasoned entrepreneur who founded an IT performance-analytics company that was sold to VMWare.

01/13/2016

GE Capital Americas CISO James Beeson will take part in Security Current's Security Shark Tank and advises security startups to take 'small steps (MVP approach). Fail fast and cheap. Focus on SMBs rather than engaging with big companies first. They are in desperate need of your help and won’t completely takeover your strategy and approach.'

01/07/2016

"Security Current did a great job of throwing us into the Security Shark Tank and we were pleased to find some very sharp, straight talking forward thinking Sharks. We survived the tank with a number of lasting profitable business relationships and were given top overall solution in the competition against five other vendors. I would recommend the venue to all innovative companies with disruptive security solutions looking to meet today's top security executives." SentinelOne SVP of Sales Robert Cariddi

http://www.securitysharktank.com