Red Hat was recently acquired by IBM for and eye-watering $34 Billion, and while it's the largest deal of its nature, it did get me curious as to how frequent it is for open-source companies to get involved in a bit of M&A. To keep it simple outside of my usual IT Security wheelhouse, let's … Continue reading Buying Open Source
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), but why restrict it to a month, when we need it all year round. So, I created a few very short videos on a few security awareness topics. The idea was to keep them short enough so people would watch them to the end, have a bit … Continue reading National Cyber Security Awareness Month
AT&T Business Summit day 2
via IFTTT Another busy and enjoyable day at the AT&T business summit in Dallas. Today was spent mainly in sessions, and I ended up spending an hour in an 'ask the expert' session as well as getting interviewed by Shira Rubinoff. Yay, go me! Tomorrow is the last day, and I have a very important … Continue reading AT&T Business Summit day 2
AT&T Summit day 1
via IFTTT I'm in Dallas, and there's not Ewing in sight. Luckily, what is here, is a great business summit. Here are some of the highlights from day 1 where I spent most of the time drooling over the booths.
British Airways breached
I got the dates wrong in the video, should have said 21st Aug to 5th Sept. But, this is me looking at the whole incident as a customer, not as a security professional. I received the email notification from British Airways informing me of the breach and the fact that customers payment and personal information … Continue reading British Airways breached
The Queen Agrees
Around 2006 / 2007 I began blogging and tried to get into video blogging. Although I’d been working in information security for 7 years up to that point, I wasn’t well-connected in terms of what conferences ran, who the influencers were, or who the editors of any of the numerous security magazines or websites were. … Continue reading The Queen Agrees
Social, the final frontier
Social channels are an oft-overlooked area when it comes to information security. Social channels are left in the hands of marketing departments for customer engagement purposes. However, the adoption of social digital tools for the purposes of conducting business is widespread and largely unregulated, creating a major area of risk for organisations. If we look … Continue reading Social, the final frontier
The user awareness landscape
Overall, technologies can be pretty straightforward to secure. Teach software not to execute a certain command, block a port, or alert on a set of conditions, and it will abide. Humans, on the other hand are not as easy to harden against attacks. These attacks are frequently delivered through emails, text messages, social media, or … Continue reading The user awareness landscape
Security in the cloud
This video was prompted by discussions with someone that was adamant that they would never, never, everrrrr put their logs in the cloud. I enquired as to why they weren't open to the option, and their response was that they don't believe that sensitive information like logs should be in the cloud. Now that's all … Continue reading Security in the cloud
What is AlienVault
It’s coming up on my 3 year anniversary at AlienVault - and after a conversation with a friend, it dawned on me that I don’t think I’ve ever really explained what AlienVault does. So, when I was in Austin this last week I recruited some of my colleagues to help make this short video to … Continue reading What is AlienVault
Javvad Malik 