Sean Michael Kerner

After a year of speculation about who was behind the massive attack against JPMorgan Chase in 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice is now naming names. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment today naming Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein as participating in the sprawling […]

“Do Not Track” is in big trouble after a new U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling against it. On Nov. 6, the FCC issued a ruling stating that major Web services, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix and LinkedIn, do not have to honor Do Not Track requests. The first time I heard about Do […]

The market for cloud application security broker (CASB) technologies is red hot, as organizations of all sizes come to terms with how to secure cloud application usage. As evidence of how hot the market is, today Blue Coat announced its plans to acquire CASB vendor Elastica for $280 million. The acquisition of Elastica marks the […]

Fedora 23 Improves Security, Desktop and Cloud The latest milestone release of Red Hat’s community Linux project debuts, providing the capability to bring a cloud image back down into a server image. Fedora 23 Comes in Workstation, Server and Cloud Flavors As has been the case since Fedora 21, Fedora 23 is available as three […]

Inside of every enterprise are multiple endpoints and potential attack surfaces that represent areas of security risk. Taking the digital pulse of an enterprise’s security posture, across the attack surface, is the goal of Sophos’ new synchronized security effort. The synchronized security initiative includes both hardware and software to enable a capability that Sophos is […]

Why do companies buy security technology? It seems like a harmless enough question, and the obvious answer would seem to be that companies buy security technology to protect themselves and their users. But the larger question of when companies buy security technology is tougher to answer. This week, security vendor FireEye reported its third-quarter fiscal […]

When confronted by a cyber-extortionist, do you pay the ransom or do you stand firm and not negotiate? It’s both an ethical and a procedural dilemma. By paying the ransom, in some respects, the victim is enabling and perhaps encouraging the extortionist to commit future acts since after all, if it worked once, it might […]

The cloud isn’t just about infrastructure as a service for its own sake, it’s also about applications and software as a service. At Oracle’s OpenWorld event in late October, the company made multiple announcements across its product portfolio with a particular focus on the cloud. One of those announcements was the debut of the Oracle […]

Ryan Stolte, co-founder and CTO at Bay Dynamics, isn’t a newcomer to the security space. Stolte co-founded Bay Dynamics back in 2001 when the security market was very different, and over the last 14 years as the overall IT market has evolved, so too has Bay Dynamics. On Nov. 3, Bay Dynamics announced its latest […]

As promised, Google is continuing to issue monthly Android security updates in an effort to keep users safe. The November update is now out, marking the fourth update since Google started monthly updates after the Stagefright Android flaw was first reported in July. Google’s Android Security Chief Adrian Ludwig first committed the company to a […]

Linux vendor Red Hat has spent much of its existence fighting Microsoft Windows in the marketplace. Today, in a surprising move, Red Hat and Microsoft entered into a broad partnership that will see Red Hat engineers co-located at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., as the two vendors aim to enable each other’s cloud technologies. “We’re […]

For Cisco, the correct answer to the question of where to place security in an enterprise is: everywhere. Cisco announced that it is expanding its Security Everywhere initiative with a cloud access security (CAS) broker offering, an update to its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the Threat Awareness Service. “Cloud Access Security provides the ability […]