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Juniper launches a switch line

Chris Harrington — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:02:40 +0000

Juniper Networks announced today their EX line of Switches. You can see more about the switches and a demo at www.juniper.net/ This new line of switches runs their JunOS operating system, rather than some other OS that would create confusion and complication. I have spoken to the local Juniper team and it seems as though Juniper built the switches themselves rather than through OEM or acquisition. I’m not sure I agree with that from a product maturity or time to market aspect. In any case, congrats to Juniper for filling what many believe was a hole in their product offering.

I am curious as to what this will do for their NAC strategy, if anything.

–Chris

Technorati Tags: Juniper, switches, NAC

CSI 2007 Annual Conference

Chris Harrington — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:05:34 +0000

Its that time of year. The Computer Security Institute is holding its 2007 Annual conference in Alexandria, VA. The dates are November 3rd to November 9th. For those of you going you can get $100 of the full conference fee by using the code CSI2007. Conference details and registration can be found at www.csiannual.com. It looks like a great agenda.

The good folks at CSI were kind enough to give me a press pass and 2 conference passes for zilch, as they seem to have done with several of my fellow security bloggers. Sorry, I have already given the 2 passes to a couple of security geeks who really wanted to go.

I hope to see you there.

–Chris

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MikeTechShow.com live tonight

Chris Harrington — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:08:01 +0000

My friend Mike Smith from MikeTechShow.com will be live on ComputerAmerica tonight at 10:00 PM. Mike has has been podcasting for over 2 years now. I think Mike has an excellent technology podcast where he covers material for both the novice and experienced PC user. Recently he started streaming live video of his podcast on Ustream.

Please stop by and check it out.

–Chris

Technorati Tags: MiketechShow, podcast, ustream, ComputerAmerica

Whitedust.net called it quits?

Chris Harrington — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:50:56 +0000

I was looking for something tonight and clicked a link to a page on Whitedust Security’s news site, Whitedust.net. When I clicked on the link I got a page with only this:

14 August 2007 - 23:58 GMT

With the industry and those in it so seemingly hostile to Whitedust, and
pure apathy from anyone who thinks otherwise. Why bother. This site is
now closed permanently. It’s staff have abandoned the scene and the industry
for real world projects - for good, you won’t be seeing us again. You “Won”.

Good luck out there. You’ll need it.

-The Staff

Hoax, hack or real? I have not noticed anything about them closing down. Anybody know more about it?

–Chris

Technorati Tags: whitedust security, whitedust.net

Is Data Leak Prevention the next “big thing” in security?

Chris Harrington — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:25:55 +0000

I experienced first hand the IPS hype cycle working for a vendor, from early commercial products in 2003 to more mainstream adoption in 2006. My NAC vendor experience was shorter but I still was there for the big hype late last year and early this year. Was there a hype for Data Leak Prevention solutions like Vontu, Code Green Networks, Reconnex and GTB? I remember seeing several DLP vendors at RSA this year.

From a vendor standpoint (where I am now), I am seeing a big jump in awareness of DLP technology in our customer base. Granted we focus on the mid-market….there may be even more awareness in the Fortune 1000 and up. The sales are starting to trickle in for this technology as well.

We are also seeing M&A activity in this space. RSA recently acquired Tablus. This is a natural extension given the information life cycle management offerings that EMC (RSA’s parent company) is selling.

So my question remains, Is DLP the next big security technology? Will it follow in the footsteps of IPS and NAC?

–Chris

Technorati Tags: Data Leak Prevention, DLP, Vontu, Code Green, Reconnex, GTB

Security Bloggers meeting at RSA

Chris Harrington — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:33:33 +0000

Just so Mike doesn’t take the bullet, I’ll probably be the last to blog about the bloggers meeting. I ended up getting there very late as I had my own cab ride from hell story…although it wasn’t anything like this one. You know you are in trouble when the cab driver picks you up at the hotel and asks, in extremely broken English, “do you know where that is?”. He then spent the next 30 minutes on the phone reading off every street name to his apparent navigator on the other end of the phone. That was a 45 minute cab ride to go about 4 miles in downtown San Francisco at 7:00 PM.

I didn’t meet as many people as I wanted to because of my cab ride but still had a great time both during the meeting and especially dinner afterwards. I’ll be like the 10th person to post the attendance list. Thank you to Martin McKeay, Richard Stiennon, Mircosoft and certainly others for making this happen. I am looking forward to this again next year.

–Chris

Amrit Williams - http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/
Brian Krebs - http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
Bruce Schneier - http://www.schneier.com/blog/
Ryan Naraine - http://securitywatch.eweek.com/
Thomas Ptacek - http://www.matasano.com/log/
Martin McKeay - http://www.mckeay.net/
Cutaway - http://www.cutawaysecurity.com
Richard Bejtlich - http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/
Richard Stiennon - http://www.securitycatalyst.com/
Michael J. Farnum - http://securityplace.blogspot.com/
Michael Dahn - http://datasecurity.wordpress.com/
Adam Shostack - http://www.emergentchaos.com/
Mike Murray - http://blog.ncircle.com/
Andy Willingham - http://andyitguy.blogspot.com/
Scott J. Roberts - http://blog.vulnerableminds.com/
Pete Lindstrom - http://spiresecurity.typepad.com/
Kenneth F. Belva - http://www.bloginfosec.com/
Raffael Marty - http://www.raffy.ch/blog/
Alex Hutton - http://riskanalysis.riskmanagementinsight.com/
George Ou - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/
Mike Rothman - http://securityincite.com/
Anton Chuvakin - http://chuvakin.blogspot.com/
Alan Shimel - http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/
Mitchell Ashley - http://theconvergingnetwork.com/
Ron Gula - http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/
Ross Brown - http://technobabylon.typepad.com/
Alex Eckleberry - http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/
Stephen Toulouse - http://www.stepto.com/default.aspx
Ryan Russell - http://ryanlrussell.blogspot.com/index.html
Angela Gunn - http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/gunn
Garrett Gee - http://ggee.org/blog/
Samuel Van Ryder - http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/ashimmy/
Misha Govshteyn - http://blog.alertlogic.net/
Jeremiah Grossman - http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/
Chris Harrington - http://infosecpodcast.com/
Ron Woerner - http://www.securitycatalyst.com
Andrew Lark - http://andylark.blogs.com/
Andrew Storms - http://blog.ncircle.com/blogs/sync/
Micheal Wright - http://mcwresearch.com
Jordan Wiens - http://psifertex.com
Autumn Haynes - http://www.rsa.com/blog/
Michelle McLean - http://consentry.typepad.com/blog/
Lori MacVittie - http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/
Chris Boyd - http://www.vitalsecurity.org/
Wayne Porter - http://blog.spywareguide.com/
David Maynor - http://erratasec.blogspot.com/
Robert Graham - http://erratasec.blogspot.com/
Eric Green - http://www.larstanpodcasting.com/
Ryan Singel - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6//
Kevin Poulsen - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6//
Andreas Antonopolous - http://www.nemertes.com/blog/andreas_m_antonopoulos
David Kanter - http://www.realworldtech.com
Christopher Hoff - http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/
Mike Murray http://www.episteme.ca

Technorati Tags: RSA, bloggers, San Francisco, Information Security

Going to RSA?

Chris Harrington — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:00:40 +0000

Anyone one out there going to the RSA show in San Francisco? If so drop me a line…I’ll be there from Monday to Thursday. I believe this will be my 7th show and it looks to be as interesting as ever.

–Chris

Technorati Tags: RSA, San Francisco, Information Security

I’m presenting at NERCOMP on IPS

Chris Harrington — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:35:36 +0000

On November 14th I am speaking at the NorthEast Regional Computing Program’s (NERCOMP) “Security Essentials With The Industry Experts” event. My presentation is on network based IPS. Details of the event can be found here. Drop me a note if you are going to be there.

This was organized by Scott Brown at Colby Sawyer College. Scott has built one of the most secure college networks I have seen. IPS, NAC with 802.1x, centralized AV, VA scanning….you name and he probably has it or has tried it. He’s also been on the cover of SC Magazine to boot! Also speaking will be Jeff Reed from Classic Networks on NAC and Randy Abrams from ESET talking about antivirus.
–Chris

Technorati Tags: NERCOMP, IPS, Colby Sawyer, ESET, Antivirus, NAC