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The Sys Admin Did It!
Like the butler in classic murder mysteries, we’re quick to suspect the person with unfettered access, and that’s often the proverbial “red herring”. The 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides ...
From Point of Entry to Compromise
The leather-clad Trinity, of Matrix fame, runs an Nmap port scan against a target IP address, detects a vulnerable SSH service and, a few keystrokes later, has root access to the power ...
Log Management: Bad News, Good News
The “bad news” is that log management has failed miserably. The “good news” is that it can’t get any worse. That’s the obvious conclusion from the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report ...
Secret Service – Guarding Presidents and Payments
The Secret Service may be best known for their role as the President’s guardians, but it’s their role protecting the U.S. currency that has them guarding all forms of payment and financial ...
2011 Verizon DBIR: Insights and Opportunities
The annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is making headlines, generating tweets and motivating blog posts – like this one. Weighing in at 74 pages, it’s a significant report, and if ...
Barracuda: Got SIEM?
Michael Maloof | | FEATURED, Network Security, Security Information & Event Management, SIEM, TriGeo
The announcement of a breach at Barracuda Networks is only the most recent among several high profile network security companies. We applaud Barracuda’s announcement and the description of what happened. It’s important ...
Trading Risk Paralysis for Actionable Intelligence
So, you've patched, you've scanned, you're PCI compliant, and you still get breached… ...
RSAC 2011: Talk About a SIEM Revolution
Nicole Pauls | | FEATURED, Industry Events, rsac, Security Information & Event Management, SIEM, TriGeo
At this year’s RSA Conference, I was struck by the number of times SIEM was mentioned. In every discussion on data, incident response, and/or compliance, I heard “well, you’ve got to do ...
RSAC 2011: Looking to the Future
As we wrapped up the week at the RSA Conference, I went from looking backward to looking forward. There was a lot of talk about things we already know that we could ...
RSAC 2011: The Midmarket View
TriGeo has a well-deserved reputation for delivering award-winning SIEM technology that’s built for the SME. We know this market, so as I sat through days of RSA presentations, I started to tally ...
