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Black Hat USA 2011: Chris Blask of AlienVault
August 15, 2011
Chris Blask is the VP of the Industrial Control Systems Group at AlienVault. He has been involved in the information security industry for twenty years. He also invented one of the first commercial firewall products, the BorderWare Firewall Server, and is on the faculty at IANS...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Rodrigo Branco - Vulnerability Research - Qualys
August 14, 2011
Rodrigo Branco is the Vulnerability and Malware Research Director for Qualys, the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance solutions. Qualys enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively ensure that their business technology systems remain highly secure...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Aaron Bryson - Security Engineer - Cisco
August 11, 2011
Aaron Bryson is a Senior Security Engineer for Cisco, with experience in computer, network, and information security in large corporate environments. Cisco offerings are used to create Internet solutions that make networks possible, providing access to information anywhere at any time...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Ivan Ristic - Director of Engineering - Qualys
August 10, 2011
Ivan Ristic is the Director of Engineering at Qualys, and is a respected security expert and book author, known especially for his contribution to the web application firewall field and the development of ModSecurity, the open source web application firewall. He is the author of Apache Security...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Interview with Dan Kaminsky
August 10, 2011
Dan Kaminsky has been a noted security researcher for over a decade, and has spent his career advising Fortune 500 companies. Dan is best known for his work finding a critical flaw in the Internet’s DNS, and for leading the largest synchronized fix to the Internet’s infrastructure of all time...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Wolfgang Kandek - CTO - Qualys
August 09, 2011
As the CTO for Qualys, Wolfgang is responsible for product direction and all operational aspects of the QualysGuard platform. Wolfgang has over 20 years of experience in developing and managing information systems, Unix-based server architectures and application delivery through the Internet...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Jeff Hudson - CEO - Venafi
August 09, 2011
While encryption was once used almost exclusively to protect information using SSL certificates and symmetric and asymmetric keys to scramble data, now it is also used in authentication mechanisms to confirm the identity of a user or a device, and for digital signing to protect data...
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Black Hat USA 2011: Josh Shaul - CTO - Application Security Inc
August 08, 2011
As the Chief Technology Officer with Application Security, Inc. (AppSec), Josh Shaul is responsible for the direction of the technical strategy, which includes the product portfolio - AppDetectivePro for auditors and IT advisors, and its flagship solution DbProtect for the enterprise...
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Black Hat 2011 USA: Phillipe Courtot - CEO - Qualys
August 08, 2011
Black Hat USA Interview: Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Philippe Courtot has repeatedly built innovative companies into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, Philippe has worked with companies to improve their IT security and compliance postures...
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Black Hat's Technical Director Travis Carelock
August 03, 2011
Travis Carelock is the Technical Director for the Black Hat USA 2011 Conference, taking place this year in Las Vegas, Nevada. Travis talks about some of the technical challenges his team ran into this year, including a fire alarm during the first keynote address by Cofer Black...
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Spear Phishing Scams Hook Victims
July 04, 2011
2011 has been the year of the data breach. With what seems like a new report of a data breach each day, scams are on the rise. Identity Theft 911 Founder and Chairman Adam Levin talks to ABC about what consumers should do to protect themselves...
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Don't Black List White Listing
June 22, 2011
As AV vendors struggle to keep up they too are looking at white listing too. The trend is toward a hybrid model with white listing doing the heavy lifting to protect end points from zero-day and uniquely fabricated malware and black listing to provide reports...
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Modern Malware Defense
May 25, 2011
Ashar Aziz, founder of FireEye, recognized early on that malware, zero day threats, and drive by downloads could slip by defenses that most organizations have deployed. He built the technology to take executables off the wire and run them in a mini-cloud of virtual emulators...
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Granular Application Control Drives Next Gen Firewalls
May 18, 2011
Web apps in particular have become a nightmare for IT staff. Should users be allowed to use Twitter, URL shorteners like bit.ly or ur1.ca, or even Facebook? And if they do what should they be allowed to do within the app? Posting updates is one thing. Playing Mafia Wars is another...
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Next Generation Firewalls vs UTM
May 04, 2011
Network security is primarily gateway security: the firewall. What about IPS? What about access control? What about URL content filtering and network anti-malware? Aren’t those separate products, categories, industries? NO, those are features in the gateway security product...
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Beaconing Detection: A Required Defense
April 13, 2011
One of the hottest areas in network security is beaconing detection - from Ghost Net and and Night Dragon to attacks on the Pentagon, Google, and RSA. Once a desktop or server is infected it “phones home” for additional downloads, instructions, and ultimately to exfiltrate stolen data...
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