SecureWorks Info Feed

SecureWorks news, press releases, events, and research alerts.

• News: SecureWorks and Microsoft Collaborate to Deliver Enhanced Protections for Security Vulnerabilities (Cloud Computing Journal)
• Event: Jack Henry's National User Group Conference and Technology ShowcaseOctober 13, 2008-October 17, 2008: SecureWorks will be Exhibiting at Jack Henry's National User Group Conference and Technology Showcase. Location: Gaylord National, Washington, DC.
• Blog: ClickJacking AttacksClickJacking has recently been getting lots of media attention. Security Researchers Robert Hansen ("RSnake") and Jeremiah Grossman planned to give a talk outlining this vulnerability at OWASP AppSec, but the talk was cancelled. At this point, some details have come to light.
• News Blog: The Value of certsThere are hundreds of security certifications out there, but not all are equal when it comes to validating a personâs security expertise. Like security ROI, compliance v. security, etc., this is a topic that seems to raise its head every so often in the security community. Last week, Stephen Northcutt (President of SANS and founder of the GIAC certification gave his take:
• News: Storm May Finally Be Over (Dark Reading)
• Event: ISSA Triangle InfoSeConOctober 16, 2008: SecureWorks will be Exhibiting at ISSA Triangle InfoSeCon. Location: McKimmon Conference and Training Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
• Blog: ToorCon Report
• News Blog: The Week's Links: October 6 - October 10, 2008A weekly feature highlighting news stories, reports and editorials of interest to IT and security managers. Also see stories including SecureWorks news, press releases, and research.
• News: The Internet's Top 10 Most Controversial Figures of 2008 (Popular Mechanics)
• Event: KonsultekOctober 16, 2008: SecureWorks will be Exhibiting at Konsultek. Location: Abbington Banquets, Glen Ellyn, IL.
• Blog: Speaking at ToorCon This WeekendI have the honor of presenting at ToorCon X this coming weekend at the San Diego Convention Center. I will be delivering a new talk entitled âLoaded Dice: SSH Key Exchange & the OpenSSL PRNG Vulnâ at 2pm PDT on Saturday, September 27.
• News Blog: "Full throttle" Intrusion Prevention still not a reality for many companiesNetwork World recently published survey results from Infonetics Research on the use of Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) products from TippingPoint, Cisco, IBM (ISS), McAfee and Sourcefire.
• News: Managed security services: Outsourcing threat management (Network World)
• Event: ISSA Hawaii 15th Annual Discover Security ConferenceOctober 22, 2008-October 23, 2008: SecureWorks will be Exhibiting at ISSA Hawaii 15th Annual Discover Security Conference. Location: Hale Koa Hotel, Honolulu, HI.
• Blog: Droppin' Some HashesAt SecureWorks, we follow a Responsible Disclosure Policy. As such, when we find vulnerabilities in other vendorsâ products or services, there is often a delay between the discovery and when we can publicly disclose the issue.
• News Blog: The Week's Links: September 29 - October 3, 2008A weekly feature highlighting news stories, reports and editorials of interest to IT and security managers. Also see stories including SecureWorks news, press releases, and research.
• News: Bank customers: beware of phishing email (USA Today)
• Event: ISSA Hawaii Discover Security ConferenceOctober 23, 2008: SecureWorks will be Speaking at ISSA Hawaii Discover Security Conference. Location: Hale Koa Hotel, Honolulu, HI.
• Blog: BGP in the News Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the high level routing protocol that figures out how to route packets between ISPs and other large Internet entities, has been seeing a lot of press recently. While BGP is vitally important to the Internet, it's not often talked about in the mainstream press. However, two rather interesting security related issues have come up in the past few weeks.
• News Blog: PCI DSS 1.2 Released