| Apr 30 2008 |
Video: Computer Experts Bruce Schneier and Ray Stanton on the Human Side of Security |
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David Lacey, ComputerWeekly
BT's Bruce Schneier and Ray Stanton talk security with ComputerWeekly.com's security blogger David Lacey at Infosecurity 2008.
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| Apr 22 2008 |
Microsoft PatchGuard: Locking Down the Kernel or Locking out Security? |
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Tony Bradley, SearchSecurity
When Microsoft introduced the Vista operating system, with it came a number of dramatic changes to the way that Windows functions. Perhaps most notable among those changes was a new feature called PatchGuard. It was intended to provide a more secure computing environment, but it has been a source of controversy among vendors and customers alike. In this article, we will examine PatchGuard and why, despite its controversial approach, the feature helps make the Windows OS more secure.
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| Apr 22 2008 |
Q&A: Schneier Says Cybercrime Problem 'Might Not Be Fixable' |
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Jeremy Kirk, Computerworld
At the Infosecurity Europe 2008 conference in London this week, Schneier spoke with the IDG News Service about the psychology of data security and the effectiveness of security software.
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| Apr 18 2008 |
An RX for Doctors Suffering from Spam Attacks |
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Paul Korzeniowski, Dark Reading
"We issued an RFP and felt that BT Counterpane had the most sophisticated security functions," noted Nick Krym, CTO at Medem. The healthcare network services provider was attracted to the extensiveness of the provider's intrusion detection and reporting functions. "When we first contacted Counterpane, [they] identified a number of places where our security procedures needed to be tightened," Krym says.
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| Apr 18 2008 |
Enterprises Slow Fight Against Malicious Code |
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Tim Wilson, Dark Reading
Rightly or wrongly, enterprises believe they are more secure than they were a year ago, and their efforts to stop malware are slacking off. That's one of the findings from a new study scheduled to be published next week by BT, which conducted the research as a follow-up to its 2005 study on malicious code.
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| Apr 17 2008 |
Prediction: RSA Conference Will Shrink Like a Punctured Balloon |
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Bruce Schneier, Wired
The show floor is filled with new security products, new technologies, and new ideas. Many of these are products that will make the attendees' companies more secure in all sorts of different ways. The problem is that most of the people attending the RSA Conference can't understand what the products do or why they should buy them.
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| Apr 15 2008 |
GLBA Risk Assessment Steps to Success |
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Tony Bradley, Search Financial Security
The Financial Services Modernization Act, better known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), requires that financial institutions ensure the security of customer data, protect data against known or anticipated risks and secure data to protect it from unauthorized access.
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| Apr 11 2008 |
Strong Passwords are an IT Manager's Best Friend |
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Don Reisinger, Processor
Toby Weir-Jones, vice president of BT Americas (www.btplc.com), a firm that specializes in IT consulting and security, says, "It's a common misperception that corporate attacks are all the result of cloak-and-dagger subterfuge and esoteric technical skills. That stuff definitely happens, but the reality is that most compromises are the result of accidents and ignorance."
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| Feb 22 2008 |
Computer Security's Dubious Future |
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Roger A. Grimes, InfoWorld
Computer security is not likely to improve in the near future because of two reasons. One, bad guys are getting better at attacking us. And two, we're not getting better at defending ourselves.
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| Feb 12 2008 |
The Insider (Interview with Bruce Schneier) |
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Stefan Hammond, Computerworld
Security is fundamentally not a technology problem--it's a people problem. And while the technology continues to improve, increasing complexity makes the problem worse. It's war. But it's much more interesting, and it's always pervasive.
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| Feb 5 2008 |
Hacks, Phreaks, Worms, Tigers and Bears--Oh My |
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Katherine Walsh, CSO Online
The [Witty] worm spread rapidly after the announcement of the vulnerability, infecting 12,000 machines in 45 minutes, according to Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane. It also infected smaller and harder-to-infect hosts than previous worms.
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| Jan 9 2008 |
Storm for Rent |
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Andy Greenberg, Forbes
"Creating a botnet is not like collecting stamps; we knew Storm's creators were going to do something with it," says Bruce Schneier, a security researcher for BT Counterpane who has tracked the worm. "The worrisome thing is that Storm is very professional, and it's still growing."
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| Oct 4 2007 |
Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets |
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Bruce Schneier, Wired
The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in e-mail attachments with the subject line: "230 dead as storm batters Europe." Those who opened the attachment became infected, their computers joining an ever-growing botnet.
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| Sep 28 2007 |
Myanmar Blackout |
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Forbes.com
"The Internet in Burma is accessed through a small number of government-controlled points, and they can shut them down," says Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of the security firm, BT Counterpane. "It might be as simple as shutting down a few dozen Internet cafés."
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| Sep 28 2007 |
No Escaping Big Brother's Watchful Ears and Eyes |
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Edmonton Journal
"The notion that we could have conversations that disappear is, in fact, disappearing," said Bruce Schneier, author and chief technology officer of U.S.-based security firm BT Counterpane. "Everything we do today creates a transaction where it didn't before."
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| Sep 6 2007 |
NBA Ref Scandal Warns of Single Points of Failure |
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Bruce Schneier, Wired
The details of the story are fascinating and well worth reading. But what interests me more are its general lessons about risk and audit.
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| Sep 4 2007 |
Monster Breach Teaches Familiar Lesson |
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Enterprise Security Today
"You're going to see this happen again and again and again," said security analyst Bruce Schneier, chief technologist for BT Counterpane. "I assure you, every other company didn't say, 'Wow, look what happened to Monster, we have to fix our problem.'"
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| Aug 29 2007 |
Bruce Schneier's Blog Makes Datamation's Top 100 Tech Blogs list |
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Infosecurity
Is there a more famous security guru than Bruce Schneier? What's impressive about his blog is the expansive reach of his subject matter: software and hardware, sure, but also security issues in a larger societal context.
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| Aug 2007 |
Mining Logs for Gold |
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Sushila NairCapital IT Governance
One of the fundamental requirements we have for applications and operating systems is that they trace activity through the use of log files. Unfortunately the requirement that all devices maintain a record of activity has resulted in a plethora of log files, which contain a record of what is happening. Like mining for gold, some of this information is valuable, but only when it is identified and extracted from everything that is not gold.
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| May/Jun 2007 |
Interview: Bruce Schneier |
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Infosecurity
Bruce Schneier packed out the show's keynote theatre when he spoke about 'The Psychology of Security', based on a draft essay he published in February. He outlined a range of research suggesting that our perceptions of a given risk are heightened if it is - among other things - spectacular, discussed widely, outside our normal experience or willingly taken rather than beyond our control. Such biases are ideal for hunter-gatherers living in small family groups in Kenya in 100,000 BC, he argues, but not for modern life.
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| Jun 4 2007 |
BT Launches New Suite of Security Services |
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IP Communications
The suite of services is part of BT Counterpane's Enterprise Compliance Framework offering and will proactively provide a range of compliance reports to enterprise customers based on those customers' discrete security and compliance requirements.
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| Jun 4 2007 |
Security's Sea Change |
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Dark Reading
In a lunch presentation, security expert Bruce Schneier of BT Counterpane also predicted a sea change. "Long term, I don't really see a need for a separate security market," he said, calling for greater integration of security technology into everyday hardware, software, and services.
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| May 31 2007 |
Don't Look a Leopard in the Eye, and Other Security Advice |
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Bruce Schneier, Wired
If you encounter an aggressive lion, stare him down. But not a leopard; avoid his gaze at all costs.
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| May 3 2007 |
Do We Really Need a Security Industry? |
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Bruce Schneier, Wired
Eight years ago, I formed Counterpane Internet Security on the premise that end users (big corporate users, in this case) really don't want to have to deal with network security. They want to fly airplanes, produce pharmaceuticals or do whatever their core business is. They don't want to hire the expertise to monitor their network security, and will gladly farm it out to a company that can do it for them.
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| Apr 27 2007 |
Emerging Vendors Help SMEs Meet Security Demands |
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Processor
BT Counterpane (www.counterpane.com), provider of a range of managed security services, offers its Managed Security Monitoring specifically for IDS, IPS (intrusion prevention system), and firewall management. For companies that are reluctant to outsource all of their security, the use of a managed system this specific could put in an extra level of protection without giving up in-house security completely.
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| Apr 13 2007 |
One-Time Password Technology |
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Processor
Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technology officer for BT Counterpane, a provider of managed security services and security consulting, says one-time password technology makes a lot of sense for providing employee access into corporate networks. But many companies remain mired in old security technologies that no longer work well with today's sophisticated attack methods.
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| Mar 28 2007 |
Webcast: 2007 Top Security Trends: What They Mean for Businesses |
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| With Bruce Schneier and Doug Howard. Hosted by CMP Media, InformationWeek and BT Counterpane.
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| Mar 8 2007 |
Bruce Schneier Wins EFF Pioneer Award |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
"This year's award winners have all provided important analysis and criticism of our digital world, educating the public on how electronic systems really work and what it means to us and our future," said EFF Executive Director Shari Steele. "I'm thrilled to honor Yochai, Cory, and Bruce. They are truly pioneers of the electronic frontier."
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| Mar 5 2007 |
Bruce Schneier Named One of the 50 Most Important People on the Web |
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PC World
Whether his focus is the Transportation Security Administration's latest boneheaded security procedures or the question of how secure a 12-character password really is, Bruce Schneier offers the most lucid (and most profoundly influential) musings on computer security you're likely to find online or off. Schneier's recent writings on security problems associated with the war on terrorism--abroad, at home, and online--are required reading.
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| Mar 2 2007 |
Insider ID Threats |
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Red Herring
"We as computer scientists don't know how to secure the system that DHS wants," said security expert Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane. "If they get it right, it'll be a first."
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| Feb 21 2007 |
Webcast: Security: Not Just a Technical Problem |
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| A panel discussion with host Bruce Schneier. Part of BT's Big Thinkers series.
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| Feb 20 2007 |
Security Outsourcing Heats Up |
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Dark Reading
"Eventually, I think all enterprises are going to reach a point where they give up and hand a lot of this stuff off to a third party," Schneier said in an interview at the RSA conference in San Francisco. "It's not a choice between doing it in-house and doing it out-of-house. It's a choice between doing it out-of-house or not getting it done at all. Most companies who are trying to do security in-house are not getting it done."
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| Feb 12 2007 |
High Five: Meet Bruce Schneier |
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Information Week
Security guru--and part-time restaurant critic--Bruce Schneier is best known as the developer of the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms and author of books that examine security and society. He's also a renowned speaker, blogger, and columnist.
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| Feb 8 2007 |
Schneier: Cyber Crime Goes Global |
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SC Magazine
Organised gangs are operating in under developed countries to launch cyber attacks because of lax law enforcement, according to Bruce Schneier, CTO at BT Counterpane.
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| Feb 2 2007 |
Security on the Couch |
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CSO Podcast
Too bad, says Bruce Schneier, we don't have separate words for security the mathematical reality and security the psychological feeling, because they are as distinct as air and water. At one time Schneier maligned the psychology of security, what he called security theater to make people feel safe even at the expense of being safe. But, as you'll hear in this podcast, the more he learns about the human brain, the more he's coming around to see value in security theater.
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| Jan 15 2007 |
Schneier: Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a "Damned Good Idea" |
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CSO Online
Security guru Bruce Schneier sounds off on why full disclosure forces vendors to patch flaws.
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| Dec 18 2006 |
Who Do You Trust? |
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CFO Magazine
Doug Howard, COO of managed security firm BT Counterpane, advises managers to inform phone providers not to give out records without written authorization. Howard also advises clients to tell their phone carriers and credit-card and utility providers to send records via regular mail. This ups the ante for would-be thieves. "If someone goes into my mailbox," he explains, "that's a federal crime."
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| Nov 6 2006 |
British Telecom Dials up Da Vinci Code |
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TheMoneyBlogs.com
The company's success reflects heroic execution by CEO Paul Stich, VP Ops Doug Howard, VP Sales Kevin Senator, CFO Criss Harms and many others. Launched at the height of the bubble, the team scraped through the downturn years and emerged as the dominant independent company in the high end market for security monitoring services.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Security Specialist Counterpane |
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Business Week
"Security threats get more sophisticated and a larger number of companies are outsourcing the management of their security infrastructure to specialized security service providers. Counterpane is a leader in this space," said Andy Green, chief executive of BT Global Services.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Security Specialist Counterpane, Co-Founded by Cryptologist Schneier |
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Sydney Morning Herald
BT Group PLC, the former British telecom monopoly, said Wednesday it bought Silicon Valley-based Counterpane Internet Security Inc. to boost its computer security services for corporate customers.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Bruce Schneier's Counterpane |
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Computing
The deal is part of BT's strategy to grow its professional services arm. "We listened to our customers and analysts and it seems there's an ever-increasing need for managed security services," said Ray Stanton, global head of BT's Business Continuity, Security and Governance Practice. "There's no overlap between Counterpane and our services. Counterpane takes all the security information and turns it into something proactive, and it's agnostic to vendors and equipment."
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Security Company Counterpane, Co-Founded by Cryptologist |
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San Jose Mercury News
A deal with a global services company made sense for the startup, Schneier said. "A large public company gives us instant credibility, and they've got access to customers, giving us enormous opportunities to sell Counterpane."
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Counterpane to Shore Up Customer Data |
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Internetnews.com
Gartner analyst John Pescatore said BT probably had enough customers who requested managed security for devices, forcing BT to make a move after partnering with ISS, Symantec and others for years. "This is them buying and saying 'okay, we're going to keep this revenue and do it ourselves," Pescatore said.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Acquires Managed Security Services Provider |
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Ovum
In this case the acquisition is complementary, adding BT's network-level security expertise to Counterpane's intelligence services. The move also fits well from a commercial perspective - Counterpane had reached a crossroads in its evolution and BT calculated that acquiring a business with an established reputation and capability was preferable to either building a capability from scratch or entering into a looser partnership with another supplier. The move will also help BT to establish a higher profile in the US.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Snaps up US Anti-Hacking Firm |
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BBC News
The purchase was welcomed by the chief executive of BT Global Services, Andy Green.... "As security threats get more sophisticated, a larger number of companies are outsourcing the management of their security infrastructure to specialised security service providers and Counterpane is a leader in this space."
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Bruce Schneier's Security Company |
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ZDNet
"Bruce brings a part of the value because he's a recognised industry figure," said Ray Stanton, global head of business continuity, security, and governance at BT. "But we're also buying the intelligence capabilities and people of the company. We're buying the organisation, with Bruce as a bonus," Stanton told ZDNet UK.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Counterpane Buy Shows Global Services Push |
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Dow Jones Newswires
BT Group's (BT) acquisition of Counterpane Internet Security, the privately-held US managed network security business, "shows it's pushing ahead with its global services division and trying to pick up business in the US where it has not been strong," says Morten Singleton of WestLB.
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| Oct 20 2006 |
Data Security with Protection for Databases and Operating Systems
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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., The Managed Security Company and the authority on enterprise security, has announced new data security solutions for Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, as well as for IBM operating systems.
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| Oct 11 2006 |
The Future of Privacy |
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Michigan Tech Lode
The thought-provoking talk on "The Future of Privacy in the Age of Information" by Bruce Schneier attracted as many as 600 people to the Rozsa center on October 2.
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| Oct 19 2006 |
Counterpane Expands Managed Security Offering |
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IT Jungle
Counterpane Internet Security, a provider of outsourced security monitoring services, has expanded the range of servers and applications it helps protect in the data center. The addition of support for IBM System z mainframe, Oracle and Microsoft databases, and SAP ERP systems gives Counterpane a greater capability to detect and deter security threats from inside and outside of its customers' organizations.
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| Oct 3 2006 |
Spike in Malicious Hacking Creates Need for Action at State Level |
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Washington Technology
"Even three years ago, the budgets, the compliance requirements weren't there at all," said Doug Howard, chief operating officer for Counterpane Internet Security Inc., Mountain View, Calif. "All of a sudden, you had the recognition that tens of thousands, even millions of people's personal information was getting out."
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| Sep 29 2006 |
Moore's Law is the Enemy of Privacy |
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ZDNet
Security guru Bruce Schneier claims processing power has increased to such a degree that data has become a "pollutant."
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| Sep 20 2006 |
Business is Losing the Security War |
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PC World
Companies are losing the war to make their systems more secure, security expert Bruce Schneier said.
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| Sep 8 2006 |
Breach Laws: Rising Security Threats Require Tougher Notification Laws, But At What Price? |
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Processor
Most companies are addressing the new laws with a multifaceted approach of information sharing (usually through customer training and Web sites), hiring additional staff to enforce policies and monitor employee usage, and then running complex security detection software such as those from CyberAngel and Counterpane Internet Security. These tools offer strict adherence to existing laws and respond quickly to new breach laws as they are enacted by local and national governments.
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| Aug 2 2006 |
Feds Seek Faster Breach Notices |
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Computerworld
The new policy could also result in a high number of 'false positives' being reported to the DHS, said Doug Howard, chief operating officer at Counterpane Internet Security Inc., a managed security services provider in Mountain View, Calif. Each time someone left a laptop in a car or at an airport security check-in, a report would have to be filed immediately, Howard noted.
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| Jul 2006 |
Face-Off: Are Security Certifications Valuable? |
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Bruce Schneier, Information Security
Anyone can invent a security system that he himself cannot break. I've said this so often that Cory Doctorow has named it 'Schneier's Law.'
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| Jul 24 2006 |
VA Drops Credit Offer After FBI Says Data Is Safe |
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Computerworld
Doug Howard, chief operating officer at Counterpane Internet Security, said tools are available to help detect data tampering. But the fact that the disk containing the data was out of the VA's control for an extended period of time makes it very difficult to guarantee that no data was copied, Howard said.
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| Jul 13 2006 |
Survival Strategies for Small IT Shops |
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Network Computing
Security outsourcing is a viable option for small businesses. Top-tier managed security service providers (MSSPs) such as Symantec and Counterpane Internet Security offer services for small businesses.
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| Jun 22 2006 |
Subpar signatures embolden call for antivirus SLAs |
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SearchSecurity.com
Bruce Schneier, the chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., also thinks it's reasonable to hold antivirus vendors accountable.... "If an AV company produces a signature that doesn't behave as advertised," Schneier said, "I think they should be held liable for those ill effects."
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| Jun 19 2006 |
Learning from VA's debacle |
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Federal Times
Recent revelations of lost or stolen information from Veterans Affairs and other departments have prompted Congress and the public to direct a sizzling spotlight on how well managers are securing sensitive data they possess.
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| Jun 5 2006 |
Gartner Conference Tackles Security |
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Network World
Counterpane Internet Security, which announced a set of new service-level agreements for its managed security service that relate to protecting customer data. One guarantees that new customers of its monitoring service can activate within five days, which is especially important to companies coming to Counterpane following an incident and need to be up and running quickly, say officials.
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| May 16 2006 |
Ross-Simons Reports External Breach of Customer Data |
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National Jeweler
Internet security expert Doug Howard, CEO of security firm Counterpane, says companies can take several measures to protect customer data.
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| May 15 2006 |
Steal These Ideas: 5 Security Experts' Tips and Techniques |
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Baseline
"I have long thought that corporations are spending about the right amount of money on security, but they're spending it very badly."
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| May 2 2006 |
Encryption Isn't Enough: Five Vital Protection Steps |
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ITC Institutte
"Encryption is the best way to secure data against eavesdropping," says Bruce Schneier, founder of Counterpane Systems and one of the world's authorities in cryptology and security. But encryption can't help if you want to protect your valuable business data against other threats, he warns.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
Security as a Selling Point (Securities Industry News) |
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Securities Industry News
In January, E-Trade Financial Corp. did something that no other brokerage had done: It promised to cover all customer losses due to online fraud. Charles Schwab & Co. followed suit in February, putting these firms in the vanguard of trying to raise customers' comfort level with an added layer of security technology.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
Don't Let Your Data Fall into the Wrong Lap |
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San Jose Mercury News
If your laptop computer is stolen, you could lose a lot more than just a piece of hardware.
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| Oct 25 2006 |
BT Buys Counterpane to Shore Up Customer Data |
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Internetnews.com
Gartner analyst John Pescatore said BT probably had enough customers who requested managed security for devices, forcing BT to make a move after partnering with ISS, Symantec and others for years. "This is them buying and saying 'okay, we're going to keep this revenue and do it ourselves," Pescatore said.
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| Apr 2006 |
2006 Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award |
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Dr. Dobb's Journal
The Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award is an annual award that acknowledges individuals who, in the spirit of innovation and cooperation, have made significant contributions to the advancement of software development. Past recipients include leaders and thinkers in the development community such as Linus Torvalds, James Gosling, Erich Gamma, Guido van Rossum, Jon Bentley, Anders Hejlsberg, P.J. Plauger, and Guy Steele Jr., among others.
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| Mar 17 2006 |
More Clever Hackers Emerging |
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SC Magazine - London,UK
Cyber crime grew more sophisticated, targeted, and dangerous in 2005 according to a report released this week by Counterpane Internet Security and MessageLabs.
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| Mar 16 2006 |
Industrial Espionage Is the New Target for Hackers |
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PC Pro
According to the joint Counterpane and MessageLabs 2005 Attack Trends and Analysis survey, although financial institutions and banks are still the prime target....
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| Mar 16 2006 |
Healthcare Bears Brunt of Spyware Attacks |
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E-Health Insider
Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at Counterpane, said: "Security attack trends have rapidly evolved. In just twelve months, cyber-criminals have moved away from deploying large-scale generalized attacks, like Blaster and Slammer, towards carefully engineered attacks calculated for precise outcomes.
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| Mar 15 2006 |
Hackers Cash in on Financial Sector Attacks |
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VNUNet.com
The financial sector has been identified as the most attacked by hackers in an annual review of hacking activity by security firm Counterpane and email management company MessageLabs.
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| Mar 15 2006 |
Analysis of Cyber Attacks in 2005 Government & Health |
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PublicTechnology.net
Counterpane Internet Security and MessageLabs, have published their 2005 Attack Trends & Analysis report - their joint security research findings.
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| Mar 14 2006 |
Financial Sector - Prime Target for Financial Attacks, Report |
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Computer Business Review Online
The financial sector is set to remain a lucrative target for the financially motivated hacker, according to joint research from security management and monitoring service companies, Counterpane and MessageLabs.
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| Mar 14 2006 |
Financial Firms Suffer Most Trojan Attacks |
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Silicon.com
Financial companies suffered more Trojan horse attacks last year than any other industry, research suggests.
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| Mar 14 2006 |
Cell Phone Tracking |
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CNN (Video)
CNN interviewed Bruce Schneier for its story on cell phones as tracking devices.
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| Mar 6 2006 |
3COM Launches Managed Services: TippingPoint Partners with Counterpane |
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Government Computer News
3Com's TippingPoint security division this week is launching its first managed intrusion-prevention services, which will be available via its top-level channel partners.
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| Feb 21 2006 |
Schneier: 'Blame Firms Not Staff for Security Breaches' |
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Will Sturgeon, silicon.com
"Computer and network security is complicated and confusing, and unless you're technologically inclined, you're just not going to have an intuitive feel for what's appropriate and what's a security risk. Technology changes quickly, and any security intuition an employee has is likely to be out of date within a short time."
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| Feb 20 2006 |
'security in The Cloud' is Not the Way To Go |
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Bruce Schneier, Computerworld
A choice between implementing network security in the middle of the network -- in the cloud -- or at the end-points is a false dichotomy. No single security system is a panacea, and it's far better to do both.
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| Feb 16 2006 |
Guest Blogger at RSA Hears Counterpane CTO |
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Ellen Messmer, Network World
In his Tuesday afternoon session at the RSA show here in San Jose, Schneier -- a typically humorous anecdotal presenter on the serious issues of network security -- took up the topic of the economics of security. Schneier took pains to outline his Top 10 List of things affecting security cost in corporations today. Those range from the fact that criminals are thriving on the Internet and the reality that even your own trusted endpoints are untrustworthy to ever-mounting regulatory pressures and the rise of very sophisticated automated worms.
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| Feb 12 2006 |
500 Show Up To Hear Security Guru |
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Seattle Times
Bruce Schneier, the security guru who has rock-star status among crypto-philes, offered another take on the matter to a crowd of more than 500 people at the American Civil Liberties Union convention at the University of Washington on Saturday: This computer-eavesdropping stuff doesn't really work.
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| Feb 09 2006 |
Fighting Fat-Wallet Syndrome |
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Bruce Schneier, Wired News
I don't know about your wallet, but mine contains a driver's license, three credit cards, two bank ATM cards, frequent-flier cards for three airlines and frequent-guest cards for three hotel chains, memberships cards to two airline clubs, a library card, a AAA card, a Costco membership, and a bunch of other ID-type cards.
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| Jan 23 2006 |
Identity Management Systems Can Help Agencies Meet Security Mandates |
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Government Computer News
The trouble is that most identity management solutions stop logging the moment you gain access, said Toby Weir-Jones, director of product management for Counterpane Internet Security in Chantilly, Va. "The system will know when and where you logged in and that you logged out seven minutes later, but it won't know what you did in between."
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| Jan 6 2006 |
Microsoft releases patch for WMF flaw |
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CNN
"Nobody knew it was coming," security expert Rick Howard of Counterpane
Internet Security said. "There was no security intervention or
mitigation for it."
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| Dec 25 2005 |
Top Security Trends for 2006 |
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Red Herring
[Worm] attacks on businesses are expected to increase next year, said Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technology officer for security firm Counterpane Internet Security.
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| Dec 13 2005 |
The Hackers Are Coming! |
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Bruce Schneier, Utility Automation & Engineering T&D
Over the past few years, we have seen hacking transform from a hobbyist activity to a criminal one. Hobbyist threats included defacing web pages, releasing worms that did damage, and running denial-of-service attacks against major networks. The goal was fun, notoriety, or just plain malice.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
Security's Sisyphean Station |
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Larry Greenemeier, Information Week
Did you hear that? It's the sound of your network and applications being attacked. Hear that? It just happened again. What's worse, the nature of these attacks is changing.
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| Nov 22 2005 |
Counterpane and LogLogic Partner to Help Enterprises Mitigate Risk and Automate Compliance |
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SecurityPark.net
LogLogic and Counterpane Internet Security have announced a strategic partnership to deliver Managed Compliance Services to enterprises. This joint solution provides customers real-time forensics capabilities to respond to security incidents, compliance inquiries and internal threats, by leveraging Counterpane's security incident detection and remediation capabilities and LogLogic's log management and intelligence platform.
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| Oct 7 2005 |
Identity Management in Action |
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InfoWorld
"What would you pay to avoid being featured in a negative article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal? You'd pay a lot," says Counterpane's Weir-Jones. "In the end, it's a lot cheaper to be well prepared than to recover from being ill prepared."
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| Sep 16 2005 |
Who Is Right For Your Network Penetration Testing? |
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Processor
Bruce Schneier, a well-known security expert and CEO of security consultancy Counterpane, says that companies have to hire a security company that they can trust. That means checking references. "A company needs expertise, and in that sense it's no different from tax preparation," he says.
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| Sep 2005 |
Security Outsourcing Grabs Hold |
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CIO Decisions
Add IT security, or some of its procedures, to the list of areas where outsourcing can make sense.
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| Aug 2005 |
On the Record |
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Government Technology
Security technologist and author Bruce Schneier tackles identity theft questions and security issues.
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| Aug 22 2005 |
Awaiting the PC Killers |
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Computerworld
Could viruses really attack the low-level microcode that makes disk drives run? It's entirely possible, disk technology experts say.
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| Jul 27 2005 |
Managing the Digital Identity Crisis |
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Financial Times IT Review
More and more companies, alarmed by the escalating incidence of identity theft, have come to understand the importance of protecting the integrity of digital information held about individuals.
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| Jul 09 2005 |
Data Theft: How to Fix the Mess |
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New York Times
What we need is someone in power who can put the burden for identity theft where it belongs: on the institutions who collect this data.
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| Jun 20 2005 |
Lost My Secrets? Pay Up, Buddy! |
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Newsweek
If you had something extremely valuable to ship -- a bundle of cash, a bag of diamonds or the plotline for "Mission Impossible 3" -- would you just pack it in a cardboard box and hand it over to the United Parcel Service for delivery?
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| Jun 13 2005 |
Outsourced Security Called Battle-Tested |
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Network World
Outsourcing corporate security is no longer risky business and large organizations should hand off network monitoring and security services as soon as possible.
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| May 16 2005 |
Extortion via DDoS on the Rise |
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Network World
Criminals are increasingly targeting corporations with distributed denial-of-service attacks designed not to disrupt business networks but to extort thousands of dollars from the companies.
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| May 5 2005 |
"The Compliance Cost of NERC Attack
Prevention Standards" |
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New Power Executive
by Doug Howard
It is hard to find a business that doesn't rely on computers and networks. So how much work gets done in a typical office when the network is down?
This article also appeared in The Risk Desk.
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| Apr 22 2005 |
Retailers Feel Security Heat |
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News.com
Following several high-profile incidents of data theft, retailers are under increased pressure to clean up their computer security act.
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| Mar 23 2005 |
The Cryptography Guru: Founder of Internet Security Firm Inspires Reaction: 'We Trust Bruce' |
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San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of Counterpane Internet Security, might be as close as the computer security industry gets to its own celebrity.
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| Mar 1 2005 |
Counterpane Brings OS/400 Into Its Managed Security Fold |
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ITJungle
OS/400 shops looking to outsource their network and server security monitoring may want to check out Counterpane Internet Security, a managed security service provider (MSSP) that introduced a new OS/400 monitoring agent with the launch of Enterprise Protection Suite 2.0 last month. Inclusion of OS/400 event logs provides another piece in the security puzzle that Counterpane's security analysts are trying to put together for its customers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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| Jan 12 2005 |
Internet Security (audio) |
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The New York Times
John Markoff interviews Bruce Schneier.
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| Jun 11 2004 |
Outsourcing Goes Mainstream |
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Secure Computing
Outsourcing your network defenses may seem like an odd idea. After all, doing so means handing over the keys to your enterprise to some stranger. Yet security outsourcing is becoming popular to the point of becoming a fad. As the pace of network attacks accelerates and as Internet applications and services extend cyber risk across a web of partners, enterprises are turning to outsiders with expertise in key areas of security.
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| May 19 2004 |
Counterpane Unveils Security Services For SMBs |
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CRN
Managed service provider Counterpane Internet Security on Wednesday unveiled a suite of services designed specifically to help small and midsize businesses tackle security.
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| May 11 2004 |
Red Herring 100 |
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Counterpane was recognized by Red Herring as one of the top 100 firms driving the future of technology.
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| May 7 2004 |
Watchful Eyes: Outsourcing Event-Log Monitoring Saves Health Insurer Money and Provides Early Warnings on Network Intruders |
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Secure Enterprise
June 28, 2003, is a day David MacLeod remembers well. That's when an attacker just outside Peking tried to penetrate the network of The Regence Group, a health insurer that hired MacLeod as chief information security officer to fend off such attacks. The would-be intruder looked for an opening in the Web site Utah physicians use to submit Medicare claims.
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| Mar 17 2004 |
"An Enormous Waste of Money" |
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Newsweek
Bruce Schneier says high-profile measures like fingerprinting foreigners are often ineffective in stopping terrorists.
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| Jan 23 2004 |
Drawn to Change |
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Silicon Valley Biz Ink
Paul Stich has never been timid about embracing change, which has served him well in market cycles.
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| Jan 19 2004 |
Farming Out Security: How to Choose a Service Provider |
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Computerworld
Many companies outsource some or all IT security responsibilities to a service provider. But IT managers who have been down this road say it's important to know what to outsource, what the conditions should be and how to set up the contract for a successful outcome.
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