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Port scanning? Why bother when you’ve already made it easy? Read any enumeration document written in the last decade and each one will discuss port scanning as an integral part of carrying out an attack. Security professionals went to great lengths to thwart port scans by using a variety of techniques. You’d hear port knocking, […]

Regulatory compliance is here to stay and not a moment too soon for security vendors. In a market saturated with useless technologies – and those nearing obsolescence – regulatory compliance has opened up new avenues of sales opportunities. One of the hottest offerings that security vendors are toting is Network Admission Control (NAC). NAC refers […]

Over-Engineered Security Products, Symptoms and Signs Ever open the console of a security product and find yourself lost in a maze of features and settings that are business line-specific or completely out of place? If you answered yes, then you’re not alone. The security sector is tightening, and along with it, the revenue available to […]

Rewind ten years, and if you were in the IT business, you’ll remember that laptop computers were the hottest items in the computing world. IT shops were handing them out like free samples of Chinese food at the mall. Soon after these devices were handed out, strange things began to happen. Laptops turned up missing, […]

Over the years, the security sector has grown at an exponential rate. From the beginning, we’ve all made a point of solving problems by throwing as much technology at them as we possibly could. Unfortunately, we learned a few hard lessons along the way, one of them being that these solutions require personnel in order […]

A group of security professional peers and I gathered for our yearly casual dinner in downtown Washington D.C. Over the years the discussions reflected the current state of affairs in the security industry. Very quickly, something about this years conversation struck a chord. A few short years back, we sat at the same table and […]

When we think of an enterprise deployment, we think of a well-planned, well-funded and well-staffed event. Most of the time this is the case but on occasion a deployment can be thrown together like a cheap suit, and worse yet, appear like one to the rest of the organization. The pace of enterprise computing has […]