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1. Quick Reactions Are Open Source Security's Greatest Asset

   [ Article ] Topic: Open Source Enterprise Software | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 10/03/2007

   The battle between proprietary and open source has been with us for almost as long as that Yankee/Red Sox thing (well, not quite). It seems that some of the shrillest voices have cooled a bit and the rhetoric has ratcheted down, at least to some degree, over the past year or so. It is still is a...

2. Beta Doesn't Always Mean Bad

   [ Article ] Topic: Productivity Software | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 03/30/2009

   Stephen Hultquist used the beta of an application called SugarSync that was supposed to synchronize all his project-management data on Curio on his Mac. The app corrupted the data he had been gathering for a year – and it synchronized the corruption across all machines. He couldn’t open...

3. Keep on Scanning

   [ Interview ] Topic: Vulnerability Assessment | Author: KachinaShaw | Date Published: 02/08/2006

   Kachina Dunn spoke with Nick Galea, CEO for Acunetix , which develops and deploys Web vulnerability scanning software. The company is offering free Web site vulnerability audits to 5,000 enterprise organizations. The vulnerability audits will be performed by Acunetix staff using Acunetix Web...

4. The Coming Threat

   [ Interview ] Topic: Application Security | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 02/22/2006

   Loraine Lawson spoke with Mandeep Khera, vice president of marketing for Cenzic , a provider of enterprise software and services for automated application security assessment and compliance. Khera also led marketing for VeriSign's Managed Security Services product line. Lawson : What are the...

5. Java Open Review: Fixing the Bugs and Filling the Holes

   [ Interview ] Topic: Java | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 12/14/2006

   Lora Bentley spoke with Brian Chess, Ph.D., founder and chief scientist at Fortify Software , which recently launched Java Open Review in conjunction with FindBugs. Bentley : What prompted the project? Chess : Two things: 1) Almost all of our customers use open source libraries or...

6. Windows Vista, First Impressions

   [ Interview ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 01/16/2007

   Arthur Cole spoke with , principal analyst, The Enderle Group. Cole : In the run-up to the Vista launch, there was a lot of speculation as to the changes it would produce in computing environments. What do you see as the most significant Vista-related developments for enterprise users? ...

7. Web Apps: Insecurity for the Masses

   [ Interview ] Topic: Web Applications | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 02/02/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Jeremiah Grossman, founder and chief technology officer of WhiteHat Security . In November, 2006, WhiteHat released its inaugural Web Application Security Risk Report. Weinschenk : What are Web applications and why do they complicate security? Grossman : A Web...

8. Crackers Turn Toward Web Site Attacks

   [ Interview ] Topic: Network Security | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 04/13/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Billy Hoffman, lead researcher, SPI Dynamics . Hoffman spoke at the Shmoocom conference last month in Washington, D.C. Weinschenk : How much danger are Web sites facing? Hoffman : We don't know how often someone gets breached. Some organizations try to track...

9. Guarding the Backdoor

   [ Interview ] Topic: Application Security | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 12/28/2007

   With Chris Wysopal, co-founder and CTO of Veracode . The company just released software that looks for backdoors. Question: What kinds of backdoors are there? Wysopal: We differentiate system backdoors, which are installed on computers by malicious persons or somebody who is tricked into...

10. Forecast: Clouds, with a Chance of Greater Efficiency

    [ Interview ] Topic: Cloud Computing | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 01/03/2008

    With Aaron Levie, CEO, Box.net . Question: A lot of names are used to describe this sector. What is the theme? Levie: I think that the space definitely has different titles. There are different categories. In general, the recurring theme is services that exist in the cloud, those in which...

11. HIPS, HIPS, Hooray!

    [ Interview ] Topic: Intrusion-Prevention Systems | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 05/20/2008

    Carl Weinschenk spoke with Brian O’Higgins, CTO for Third Brigade . Weinschenk : How is malware changing? O’Higgins : Malware continues to evolve. The computer security business is different than others because the cycle is driven by the bad guys who always find a clever new way to break...

12. New Generation BI Requires 'Holistic' Security

    [ Interview ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 06/18/2008

    Lora Bentley spoke with Clive Longbottom, service director, business process analysis, Quocirca . Bentley : As the business intelligence software market has evolved and the solutions offered have matured, how is security affected? Longbottom : The new generation of BI tools is aimed at...