Sean Michael Kerner

The Cloud Security Alliance is aiming to make it easier for organizations to be compliant with its cloud security specifications and to adopt new Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) security approaches. The CSA is a multistakeholder effort that provides the industry with best practices, guidance and certification for cloud security. Its key certification effort is the […]

The Mirai botnet, which comprises infected internet of things (IoT) devices, is a real threat that has caused concerns across organizations big and small. Mirai and the associated risks of unmanaged IoT devices also represent a business growth opportunity for security vendor Pwnie Express. In a video interview with eWEEK, Pwnie Express CEO Paul Paget discusses […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google’s Gmail web email service is used by millions of companies and consumers around the world, making it an attractive target for attackers. In a session at the RSA Conference here, Elie Bursztein, anti-fraud and abuse research team lead at Google, detailed the many technologies and processes that Google uses to protect users and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—When you sell a car, typically the new owner gets the keys to the car and the original owner walks away. With a connected car, Charles Henderson, global head of X-Force Red at IBM Security, found that the original owner still has remote access capabilities, even years after the car has been sold. Henderson […]

Large DDoS Attacks on the Rise, Akamai Report Finds Akamai finds an increasing volume of DDoS attacks greater than 100G bps in Q4, while the volume of web application attacks declined. Largest Attack in the Quarter Was 517G bps While DDoS attacks larger than 100G bps were once very rare, there were 12 such attacks […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new security capabilities at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week to help protect big data and internet of things (IoT) workloads as well as a new tool to help investigate threats. HPE developed its SecureData for Hadoop and IoT offering to help organizations protect sensitive information from being […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Analyst firm IDC hosted its annual RSA Conference breakfast meeting here on Feb. 15, providing the standing-room-only audience with some direction on the future of security. While there is a lot of talk at the RSA Conference about machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Sean Pike, program vice president of security products at IDC, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Delivering secure mobile technology to billions of users and protecting them from both known and unknown threats is no easy task, but it’s the task that Google has aggressively taken on with Android. Speaking at the RSA Conference here, Adrian Ludwig, director of Android security at Google, detailed the methods used by Google to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Chris Young, senior vice president and general manager of Intel Security, delivered a keynote at the RSA Conference here today, the sixth year in a row he has done so. The keynote touched on multiple security topics, including the need for threat sharing and visibility. In video interview with eWEEK, Young detailed some of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Speaking at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Summit that is co-located with the RSA Conference here, Gen. Keith Alexander detailed why he sees the cloud as the way to help secure organizations of all sizes. Alexander, formerly head of the National Security Agency (NSA) until he retired from his post in 2014, is now […]

CrowdStrike updated its Falcon security platform on Feb. 13, repackaging capabilities and providing organizations with new features that can replace and extend beyond legacy antivirus (AV) technologies. “What we have with the Falcon platform now is the ability to do AV replacement [and] EDR [endpoint detection and response] and provide integrated security intelligence, all from […]

RSA, a Dell Technologies business, has for well over a decade provided its customers with a hardware-based two-factor authentication technology known as SecurID. RSA is no longer limiting SecurID to just hardware, and at its RSA Conference 2017 event that kicks off today in San Francisco, the company is announcing new capabilities for its expanded […]