I was part of a panel titled “Developing Security Strategies to
Successfully Combat Sophisticated Threats to your Network, while Protecting
Customer Privacy” at the TM Forum conference two weeks ago. Given the
topic, and the interesting conversation, I wanted to highlight some of the
ideas expressed around sophisticated threats.
Verizon’s Marc Spitler, and AT&T’s Brian Rexroad. Daniel O’Donnel from
Network Critical and Ajay Uggirala from NetScout, and Martin Huddleston from
United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defense (MoD) accompanied me on the panel.
In essence, cyber-attack is big business. In 2010, studies from Symantec's
newest Norton Cybercrime Report sited that the financial losses resulting
from cyber-attack were resulting in similar losses worldwide to the business
of illegal drug trade – 388B. Recent studies from the UK Cabinet office
state that cyber espiona... (more)
What is Federated Monitoring?
A wise man once told me that there is a big difference between reachability
and availability. Ever since I have been fascinated by the challenges that we
face with net-centric information sharing and service dependencies which
cross all forms of organizational, network, and even classification boundary.
The reality here is that with net-centric approaches and the need to re-use
services, we will have massive dependencies on services outside of our
control.
The Federal Government has emphasized and even mandated in some cases the use
of XML, Web... (more)
Twitter on Ulitzer
Last night Twitter.com was hacked by a group purportedly titled the Iranian
Cyber Army, at least that is what people think based on the fact that this
group advertised they were responsible by displaying a redirected web page
with an Iranian flag and text that takes credit, saying "This website has
been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army". This morning another website
(mawjcamp.org), which appears to be a Iranian Reformist website based outside
of Iran was also found to have been hacked.
This event comes at a time when the United States Government is saying that ... (more)
The 9/11 Commission Report cited "pervasive problems of managing and sharing
information across a large and unwieldy government that had been built in a
different era to confront different dangers". Since 9/11 governments around
the world have considerably adjusted their stance on information-sharing to
allow more adequate and timely sharing of information. Unfortunately, the
need to share information quickly in many situations had priority over the
need to protect it and this left security policies, certification and
accreditation practices, and existing security controls behind... (more)
Ah, those popular little black devices that fit in the palm of your hand with
keypads to handle corporate emails (produced by Research in Motion (RIM)) are
all over the globe these days. Rich features facilitate instant
messaging, better known as BB Messenger, web browsing, email processing,
Skype phone calls, and so much more. People across the globe are maximizing
their ability to multitask with their Blackberries (for business and personal
use), and the latest flavor offers a touch screen-only interface.
While Blackberry innovation makes life easier, you need to also underst... (more)