Recently eIQ surveyed a large sample of IT professionals to take the temperature of organizations that have deployed a SIEM solution. SIEM vendors take note – the survey results are not good. As a leading provider of SIEM solutions we recognized…
Read More...Notes from the road… This week I am attending the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. As usual the conference looks to be well attended. Yesterday morning I sat in on a special track sponsored by the “Cloud Security Summit”…
Read More...Do IT Professionals Need Different Skills? Much of what IT people “do for a living” within organizations that are moving to the cloud is changing. One of the most glaring areas is in the realm of vendor management. With less…
Read More...Some members of Congress are pushing for an Executive Order to implement “voluntary sharing” of security data from the private sector to the government…but will private industry bite? It has been almost 10 years since FISMA was enacted, the last…
Read More...Today, I’m very proud to announce the release of SecureVue NGS, the next-generation SIEM from eIQnetworks. Designed and priced specifically for mid-sized companies, SecureVue NGS isn’t a “scaled-down” SIEM. Based on the same award-winning technologies in our enterprise SecureVue unified…
Read More...As another round of zero-day vulnerabilities are discovered, information security professionals are scrambling to mitigate this type of threat. Microsoft is quickly working to patch a new zero-day threat that has been discovered in recent versions of its Internet Explorer…
Read More...One of the truly unfair things about information security is that the quantity and difficulty of problems don’t scale downward with the size of the organization. A big enterprise has to deal with all sorts of potential threats: APTs, phishing,…
Read More...We’ve been waiting to be able to talk about this for a while, but today we’re delighted to be able to announce that our flagship situational awareness platform, SecureVue, has achieved validation for NIST SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) capabilities. …
Read More...The University of North Carolina-Charlotte (UNCC) recently disclosed that they have discovered over 350,000 student, staff and faculty records – including Social Security numbers – that have been exposed to public access in multiple systems, in some cases for several…
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The NSA’s acceptance of hackers at Defcon marks progress for information security
Conference attendees support partnerships between the feds and hackers, and even U.S. Cybercommand head General Keith Alexander shook hands with 11-year-old hacker CyFi. At last year’s GFIRST summit in Nashville, I participated in a panel discussion on the role of…
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