Sean Michael Kerner

The RSA security conference is all about helping to educate and give people the tools to be safe in the modern digital world. In a stroke of potential irony, however, the conference might not necessarily be practicing what it preaches. For one, unlike some of the other major tech conferences that I attend, RSA this […]

What role does law enforcement play in helping prevent and stop cyber-crime? That question was tackled during a press event hosted by Verizon at the RSA Conference Feb. 25. Cyber-criminals more often than not only have a single goal—money, said Ed Lowery, special agent in the criminal investigations unit of the U.S. Secret Service. “At […]

Apple is updating both its Mac OS X desktop operating system and its iOS mobile operating system to fix flaws related to the implementation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. The iOS 7.0.6 update was released by Apple on Feb 21, and the OS X Maverick 10.9.2 update got its release on Feb 25. The […]

Cisco is no stranger to open source and, more specifically, Linux. Cisco has been using and contributing to Linux for years and in 2008 was identified as a top contributor to Linux. SourceFire’s open-source experience is a bit different. SourceFire founder Martin Roesch built the company on top of the open-source Snort IPS. During a […]

What do the world’s greatest cryptographers think about the current state of information security? At a panel at the RSA Conference Feb. 25, the discussion began with the National Security Agency (NSA) disclosures about surveillance of Americans. Adi Shamir, professor in the computer science department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and executive chairman of RSA, the security division of EMC, kicked off the RSA Conference 2014 this week with a keynote address about the state of U.S. government snooping, privacy and cyber-warfare. The RSA Conference has been shrouded in controversy from the outset over the allegation that […]

McAfee executives speaking at a press event Feb. 24 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco detailed their plans to push security forward and bypass rival vendors. McAfee, an Intel company, aims to change the way it looks at a key challenge that faces modern enterprise security: achieving true, sustainable innovation. “Taking an individual countermeasure, […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Some parts of an enterprise infrastructure are too hot and some are too cold, while some are “just right” for security. VMware CTO of Networking Martin Casado dubs this “just right” area the “Goldilocks zone” and says the virtualization hypervisor is its central feature. Current IT controls typically sit on the network […]

Juniper is also expanding its SDN controller lineup, which had previously only consisted of the Contrail controller. Marcellin noted that the NorthStar and Contrail controllers are complementary solutions and together enable service providers to address multiple layers of the network. “NorthStar is a traffic engineering controller built to optimize the transport layers and enable automated […]

CA Technologies this week announced new mobility and API security technologies to help protect the modern open perimeter of the IT security landscape. John Hawley, vice-president of Strategy at CA, explained to eSecurityPlanet that in the past security was all about protecting the edge of the network with strong security. With mobile apps and the […]

Researchers from security firm Bromium revealed that they have discovered ways to bypass Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). EMET is designed to provide an additional layer of security to applications to reduce the risk of exploitation. While EMET prevents many attacker bullets from getting through to an application, Bromium now asserts that EMET is […]

Adobe issued an unscheduled zero-day update for a security issue on Feb. 20 for its Flash Player 12.0.0.44 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.336 and earlier versions for Linux. “These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,” Adobe warned in […]