With an estimated Powerball Jackpot of $1.5B, everybody is talking about it right now. I’ve got my tickets, but with a prize that big, I’m having an easier time listing the things that I can’t buy with the money, rather than what I can. That said, I keep coming back to a concept that statisticians […]
I’ve been following Palo Alto as a networking company for a couple of years now. Their claim is that the days of the port-based firewall are dead and that their application-centric approach is a far better way to enforce your access controls. Take the HTTP protocol for example. HTTP typically runs as a service on […]
A couple of years ago I decided, along with support from my management, that Enterprise Risk Management would become a focal point for my Information Security Program. I was convinced that framing vulnerabilities in the form of risks was essential to giving management visibility into issues they currently didn’t know existed and to give our […]
