In today’s high-pressure, ultra-competitive business environment, organizations are demanding smarter, more mobile ways of working. Gone are the days of monolithic Windows desktop environments where costs were predictable and securing corporate data relatively straightforward. But these demands have brought with them a whole new set of challenges for IT departments tasked with delivering end-user computing…
Read MoreIt’s finally here. After more than 12 ½ years, today, April 8, 2014, is Windows XP’s retirement day. After today, there are no more security updates coming for Windows XP. EVER. And after today, NO ONE should be running Windows XP. We’ve been talking about the importance of getting off Windows XP and of letting…
Read MoreThe Dark Web has been very firmly colonised by criminals looking for a safer marketplace to ply their various trades. Are the vendors and buyers in these forums the same or different to those that work in the older and more established underground forums on the open Internet? Online criminals have long operated in unadvertised…
Read MoreThe thought struck me recently that an experience I often had while growing up has a number of parallels to targeted attacks and advanced threats. This is a confession that is long overdue, but as a child, I often stole the fresh-baked cookies my mother made. <Hopefully my Mother won’t be reading this> Looking back,…
Read MoreWe are less than a week away from a proverbial red letter day: the end of security support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014. For the past few months, we’ve been talking about this impending event. We’ve talked about what people can expect in terms of the number of vulnerabilities they may see when…
Read MoreWith a number of security companies talking a big game about detecting targeted attacks and advanced threats, Trend Micro is going beyond the hype. And, we can back it up—big time. In the NSS Labs Breach Detection Appliance Report released today, Trend Micro Deep Discovery 3.5 achieved the highest performance rating in overall breach detection…
Read MoreHappy April Fools on me! True Story: I received a direct Twitter message from my one of my closest friends late one night. It said, “did you see this picture of you lol” and included a shortened web link. Considering that my friend is a photographer who I know has photos of me, it wasn’t strange to receive…
Read MoreIn San Francisco last week, AWS opened their summit series for 2014. 5000+ people packed into the Moscone Center, and there was a ton of energy in the air. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend and to speak. I presented, “Updating Security Operations for the Cloud,” which is the talk I’ve…
Read MoreAlmost every organization is using cloud computing in some way today, eager to cut costs, improve IT efficiency, and make their business more agile. Many organizations have started their journey by hosting their Web sites in the cloud, hoping to take advantage of the proven scalability and test performance before making a bigger shift. The…
Read MoreTwo weeks from now, Windows XP will come to the end of its long and successful run. When the history books are written, Windows XP will likely go down as the most successful version of Windows in history. But all good things must come to an end, and that includes computer operating systems. After April…
Read More