February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—James Lewis held a fireside talk with Michael Chertoff, chairman of the Chertoff Group and former head of the Department of Homeland Security, and Michael Daniels Cyber-security coordinator of the White House. The conversations focused on the recent executive orders and security initiatives. Lewis opened that this has been [...]

February 27, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Strikeforce Technologies about security for various devices. Protecting identity requires a suite of technologies including multi-factor, out of band authentication, anti-keylogging, and separate solutions for mobile security. The need for these tools is greater due to the advent of attack vectors like zero-day, APT, and dynamically [...]

February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Srikanth Nadhamuni with the universal ID project in India described the efforts and challenges associated with providing unique and secure IDs to 1B people. India has many government forms and identification methods, with lots of leakage and duplications. Much of the existing ID forms exist only on paper, or [...]

February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Ari Juels from RSA moderated a panel of experts in cryptography. The panel members included Dan Boneh from Stanford, Whitfield Diffie from ICANN and Revere Security, Ron Rivest from MIT, Adi Shamir from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. These founders and leaders in the field addressed the [...]

February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Scott Chaney from Microsoft proposed some interesting concepts from a software company. The challenges of securing computers from attacks and the costs of a security breach are common headline material these days. One concept is to ensure end-to-end trust. This idea requires a hardware-based security structure to address the [...]

February 2013 – At the RSA conference, Tilera was showing their 3rd generation programmable product the GX72. This is a 72 tile core that is an addition to the existing GX36 36 core array. The GX36 is a staple of the high throughput community providing 40G I/Os next to high performance computing and access to [...]

Most of us in the Entertainment business are well-aware of the need to secure our personal information and intellectual property. It may not be as fun as trip to the mountains or a new guitar, but we recognize the value of security technologies to our work, our financial and our personal lives… but we don’t [...]

 February 29, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Christopher Young from Cisco described the security focus at Cisco. The changing nature of the various networks means that Cisco is in the middle of the disruption. Now, they have to solve today’s and tomorrow’s security challenges. First some statistics: 70 percent of all users break IT policies; 1 [...]

February 29, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Stuart McClure from McAfee called out the opportunity and challenges for the cloud to develop security over the next 10-15 years. The desire to take control of your own liberties and future runs up against the fact that the bad guys have it easier because they only need one [...]

 February 29, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—David Brooks, a NY Times writer and PBS speaker looked at social skills and how they will affect many systems. Our natural social behaviors are creating challenges for securing data systems. Politicians are naturally social people. Bill Clinton could make anyone comfortable in a very short time. Mitt Romney [...]