Richard Stiennon Explains Why Security Sells
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Both network vendors and PC vendors should wake up to the new reality that there is another layer of change on top of the ever increasing bandwidth, application, and storage requirements. A change in the threats.
Clever SQUID Proxy Defense Against DDoS
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
The US Defense Information Systems Agency announced that it is going to released a Request For Information this month. Anyone responding to DISA’s RFI would do well to study the methodology that Barrett Lyon describes using the open source SQUID proxy and caching server. The technique spelled out by Barrett involves putting a bank of high end servers running SQUID in front of the potential targets.
Securing a Hacker-Free Zone on the Internet
By Jacqueline Herships, Founder of Jacqueline Herships & Associates
As it evolves, Emerson believes this next generation telecommunications system, dubbed IronPipe™, will have huge implications for national security as well as tremendous new revenue opportunities for the carriers and supply chains which serve them.
Cyber Defense Defined in Weekly Newsletter
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Why cyber defense? How is this different than “security”? The difference is in motivation, purpose, and risks. Announcing the birth of Cyber Defense Weekly, a newsletter created to give participants in this new category a comprehensive summary of the week’s news, product announcements, and escalations in cyber threats.
Korea Held a Cyber War, But Nobody Came
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Bruce Schneier points out the attacks against US Federal sites that succeeded in shutting them down or the malware spread by USB thumb drive that infected the US Military Central Command, demonstrate a lack of common sense anti-virus and patch management. But that is a very big deal Bruce…
Are We Creating a State of Cyber-Attrition?
By Steven Fox, Founder of SecureLexicon
War has not changed. The weapons of disruption, corruption, and destruction reflect only the evolution of human creativity and innovation. We must understand the conflicts that drive their use, be they individual, corporate, or international. Without this insight, we are doomed to cyber attrition.
Stiennon Interviews Fortinet CTO Michael Xie
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Michael Xie is CTO of Fortinet and drives all of their development of true “Next Generation” security appliances. Hear him describe his views on speeds and feeds, routing and switching in the firewall, and cost per secure megabit.
Is Twitter The Peasant’s New Pitchfork?
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
A chant at a football game can embroil everyone at the event but it too dies out. While it may be possible to get someone to donate their computer to an attack they soon tire of their own machine being slowed by the activity. And thus DDoS attacks promulgated through Twitter, while devastating in the short term are indeed short lived.
Stiennon Talks to SecureLexicon’s Steven Fox
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Listen to the podcast as Steven asks me about “Knowing thy enemy”, “lessons learned”, “crowd sourcing attacks”, “understanding environmental and cultural context”, “Iranian cyber war”, and “political goals”.
The Cyber Shot Twittered Around the World
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Unlike Russia, who to this day has successfully denied participation in cyber attacks on Estonia, Lithuanian, and Georgia; or China who vehemently denies their massive cyber espionage activities, the US has pretty much lent its support to a communication vehicle that is writing a new chapter in the history of cyber warfare.
