VMware Intends to Buy CloudVelox

VMware 3; Cisco 0 <== More on this later. Another brilliant move by VMware as it shifts away from competing cloud to cloud with the likes of AWS and Azure and focuses on areas where it has strategic advantage.  Well done! Read the VMware blog post: VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Technology and Team from […]

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Secure Enclaves now on AWS Marketplace

It is great to see secure enclaves now listed in the AWS Marketplace. It’s a big step forward for cloud security and early participants are large enterprises creating highly secure cloud environments. This is important because it allows organizations to render the AWS boundary invisible (all within the excellent AWS shared security model) and only […]

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Cybersecurity: What Happens in Ukraine Doesn’t Stay in Ukraine

Second Panel on Ukraine’s Cyber War held at GWU Last fall we discussed how digital societies are more vulnerable to cyber mayhem and cited the recent Future in Review panel on Ukraine’s cyber war. Last week (Feb 7) a follow-on panel was held at George Washington University: The U.S.-Ukraine Cybersecurity Partnership. It is well worth […]

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Secure Enclaves in the Cloud: A Game Changer for AWS

A powerful game-changing idea is now a reality thanks to advances in cloud security capabilities and software defined perimeter technology. One of the most significant new opportunities for public cloud is the processing and storage of regulated data.  Until recently the idea was deemed heretical, mainly due to regulatory, compliance costs and the difficulty in […]

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Western, Digital Society is more Vulnerable to Cyber Mayhem

Two Ominous Warnings from the US and Across the Pond For the most part westerners live in open societies.  And many of them are undergoing accelerating connectivity across almost all aspects of their culture.  There is a dystopian underbelly to this, which was recently brought out in a prescient SiliconAngle interview on the weaponization of social […]

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Has FireEye Been Breached?

Am reading reports of a breach of FireEye. Stay tuned. While three outlets have covered, I’m awaiting acknowledgement from company officials.   Hackers Breach Cybersecurity Company In Apparent Revenge On Employee: Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/hackers-breach-cybersecurity-company-in-apparent-reveng-1797397861 ==== PasteBin data dump: Hackers claim files are from Mandiant FireEye ‘breach’: The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/mandiant_fireeye_leak/ ==== Hackers claim ‘breach’ of cyber firm […]

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Death by Maintenance and Process Creep

Hardware-Defined IT is About to End- Not with a Bang but a Whimper After completing Security Paradox the idea of death by maintenance really sunk in. The following is a “song of vapor and iron” that has been echoing through my mind like an earworm: The Golden Age of IT As organizations grew they made […]

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Security Creep Erodes Protection at Large Organizations

A recent interview with a security architect at a Fortune 100 firm with a network of hundreds of thousands of corporate and partner users brought out the explosion of complexity as networks scale and encompass remote users and partners: When a certain level of scale is attained, incremental growth can cause exponential increases in complexity […]

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Ukraine is the Front Line of the Cyber War- Upcoming Panel at Future in Review

My recent Vidder blog on security in the new cyber world explains why security will become more important to business success in the digital age and why CISOs will become as important to CMOs in most consumer and B2B companies. The world’s cyber future looks more like Ukraine, the emerging frontline of a growing conflict […]

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Digitalization Winners and Losers as of 2017

A new Morgan Stanley CIO Report is out with a revised list of digitalization winners and losers.  The shift to the cloud is increasing and creating a painful new reality for traditional IT vendors, except Cisco. Check it out here. From Becky Peterson, Business Insider, July 1 2017: The two technology vendors are set to […]

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#Cyberwar #Cloud #Migration

This week the Washington Post published a bombshell story on the recent attacks on the US election infrastructure ironically under their motto “Democracy dies in darkness.” On the Vidder blog Thursday I said that we were at cyberwar.  My case was simple: Cyber warfare is by nature stealth; There are no cyber-specific treaties; The migration […]

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NAC versus Trusted Access Control

After my Goodbye NAC (network access control) blog the Vidder team created a very useful chart comparing key characteristics of NAC with Vidder’s Trusted Access Control.

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The Cloud will Crush Network Security HW Industry

Because Complexity Doesn’t Scale Very Well… Last week Amazon announced another stellar quarter, with AWS again being the main headliner for the ecommerce high flyer. Yet I’m convinced AWS growth and profitability has even deeper implications for traditional hardware-bound network security vendors. Two weeks ago I spoke with a CISO at a forward-thinking IT shop. […]

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Goodbye NAC, Hello Vidder!

The question that many IT security pros are asking is: Why hasn’t network access control (NAC) lived up to its promise? I certainly did. And what I discovered helped me to make a career move. I’ll explain, starting with what NAC does. Then I’ll get to the personal part. NAC provides enterprises the ability to […]

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RSA Security Bloggers Meetup

Had a great time catching up with old friends last night at RSA.  We have much to talk about this year, including greater recognition for bald security bloggers. Maybe we’ll even get Rothman to shave?

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RSA: Acknowledge that Security is Broken

Trust is under attack. So much so that security experts are calling networks “zero trust.” A recent Kaspersky Labs survey found 77% of US businesses had breaches in the previous 12 months. This at a time when established, multi-billion dollar incumbents enjoy wide deployment in US enterprise networks. It is apparent that hackers have evolved tactics and strategies […]

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Digitalization, Cloud and IP Theft: Future in Review Highlights

I spent most of last week at the Future in Review tech conference in Park City listening to a series of intense 30 minute sessions on tech disruptions occurring across multiple fields, from advanced materials and computing to oceanography and pharma. It’s the kind of breadth and depth that probably led The Economist to call […]

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