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 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the requirements for security in networks, critical infrastructure, and in environments with BYOD. Phil Schacter from Gartner moderated the panel. Panel members included Steve Venema from Boeing, Dave Waltermire from NIST, and Phyllis Lee from NSA. Venema introduced himself as involved with government and user [...]

February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the implications of advanced persistent threats (APT) with respect to the NIST 800-147 and -155 standards. Paul Roberts from The Security Ledger moderated the panel. Members were; Frank Molsberry from Dell, Stacy Cannady from Digital Management, Sunil Gottumukka from Microsoft, and Robert Thibadeau from Wave [...]

February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—Robert Pittman, chief, information security office, Los Angeles County described their efforts in establishing trusted computing in the county. Some statistics for the county include 102,000 employees, of which 90 percent are union, and 34 departments structured into 5 clusters. The clusters are health, child services, operations, legal, [...]

February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—Ben Bajarin from Creative Strategies looked at the state of tablets in the enterprise. The number of tablets appearing in the workplace is tracking the total sales of tablets. Some are company issued, and others are BYOD. Tablets are reshaping the face of computing in business, enterprises, and [...]

February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—A panel discussed the growing number of tablets in the workplace. David Needle from TabTimes moderated the panel, which included Tom Gonser from DocuSign, Sean Ginevan from Mobile Iron, and Jared Hansen from Breezy. Use cases for tablets? Gonser offered in-office fidelity in a split screen mode. The [...]