Sean Michael Kerner

SAN FRANCISCO–As the IT security threat landscape continues to change, there is a need to evolve existing approaches as well as create new ones to defend against risks. That’s the big message coming from HP’s top security executive, Art Gilliland, senior vice president of enterprise security products, at the RSA security conference here. In a […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Analyst firm IDC hosted its annual breakfast meeting at the RSA security conference here today, providing attendees with food—and food for thought about the latest IT security trends. “Security evolution unites all platforms,” Chris Christiansen (pictured), program vice president for IDC’s Security Products and Services group, said at the breakfast. Christiansen remarked that he’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO—When it comes to IT security, Christofer Hoff, vice president and security CTO at Juniper Networks, believes it’s important to train people as early as possible. Hoff delivered a keynote at the RSA Conference here today in which he detailed his views on the future of security. In a video interview with eWEEK, Hoff […]

Tens of millions of self-hosted WordPress site administrators have received an email over the last 24 hours advising them that their blog has been automatically updated to version 4.1.2. The reason for the update is to fix a number of security issues, though for administrators who only read the WordPress email notice, they might not […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson took the keynote stage at the RSA Conference today to explain what the U.S. government is doing in cyber-security, including a new Silicon Valley office and public-private partnerships, and why encryption isn’t always a good thing. Cyber-security is a major priority for President Obama and his entire administration […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Amit Yoran, president of RSA Security, is a realist when it comes to the state of IT security in many organizations, and he’s not all that impressed. In a meeting with press and analysts at the RSA Conference here ahead of his keynote today, Yoran outlined his views on the state of modern IT […]

SAN FRANCISCO—There have been a number of theories postulated about how the massive Sony hack in 2014 actually occurred, and at the RSA Conference here another set of theories are being put forward. In a session called “Hacking Exposed Live,” Cylance Senior Security Researcher Brian Wallace and Cylance CEO Stuart McClure alleged that a phishing […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard is bolstering its security portfolio with a number of new capabilities, which the company is announcing at the RSA Conference here. Among the capabilities is HP ArcSight User Behavior Analytics, which has its roots in technology from software vendor Securonix. HP forged a partnership with Securonix, a market leader in the nascent but […]

VMware is positioning itself at the center of enterprise security controls as the modern security landscape continues to evolve and the benefits of virtualization continue to extend far beyond basic server consolidation. Tom Corn, senior vice president of security products at VMware, discussed his views of security’s future in a session at the RSA Conference […]

Verizon Data Breach Study Finds Old Flaws Remain Dangerous by Sean Michael Kerner Security Incidents Span Myriad Industries No industry is immune from security breaches and data loss events. The Verizon report found attacks across multiple industries and organization sizes. Majority of Organizations Are Compromised Quickly Verizon’s analysis found that in 60 percent of cases, […]

There are a lot of security companies that will be making a lot of claims at the RSA Conference that runs April 20-24 in San Francisco, but one company in particular is putting its money behind its claims. Security vendor SentinelOne is running a Bring Your Own Malware Challenge at the conference, with the winner […]

Security firm FireEye issued a report on April 18 alleging that Operation RussianDoll made use of two zero-day flaws—one in Adobe Flash and the other in Microsoft Windows—in a targeted attack. FireEye has labeled the hacker group behind the attack as APT28, which is operating out of Russia and may have ties to the Russian […]