Surviving the Week – 11/25/2011
I hope that all of you in the US had a great Happy Thanksgiving. As is normal for a holiday weekend, the new is a bit light, but here is what I was able to…
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Surviving the Week – 11/18/2011
This week was a busy one for me, as I’m finally done traveling for awhile and and got back to working on NTOSpider6 and our growing team. I should be able to keep up with…
Twitter shortened links – Security bad practice?
As as spend more time using twitter, I understand the need for shortened URL’s and make heavy use of them. But, when I am viewing a tweet I always hesitate before clicking on those links…
Response to WAF/IDS/IPS Effectiveness Report
For those of you who know me as well as Dan, you know that we have spoken quite often on our podcast (Information Security Place Podcast) about the effectiveness of today’s current technologies used by…
Is your WAF effective? Independent research study
WAF & IPS Effectiveness Report, by Larry Suto There has been a lot of discussion, articles and analyst reports about WAF’s over the years (some listed below). The truth is that WAF’s aren’t perfect, but…
Surviving the Week – 11/11/2011
Web application security news from the last couple weeks. [I guess I didn't figure out how to keep going with this weekly post when Im traveling, but now I'm done traveling for a couple months,…
SEC tells public companies they must disclose cyberattacks – time for CEOs & boards to really care about security
Interesting news out of an agency we in the security industry don’t think about very much, the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). Reuters reports that the SEC is now going to require public companies to disclose in…
“Perfect-Fit” Virtual Patching for WAF/IPS with NTODefend
Recently NT OBJECTives announced NTODefend and its ability to generate “perfect-fit” custom patches for WAF & IPS. This marketing term “perfect-fit” has been the cause of some questions. People are wondering how our “perfect-fit” rules…
Introducing Jim Broome
We caught a big one! I’m proud to announce that my buddy Jim Broome has joined the NT OBJECTives team and will be a contributing to the blog and podcast. Jim Broome, CISSP Jim, an…
HouSecCon 2011 and B-Sides ATL Review
Last week was a travel week. On Wednesday I was in Austin for some meetings, then headed to Houston for the second annual HouSecCon on Thursday. I have to say that I was blown away…