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In my ongoing series of posts on data-driven security, I noted the rise of defense tactics that seem to point the way toward reliance more on continuous, dynamic data sources than on intermittent feeds of data such as signature updates. One advantage of such an approach would be to make defense more responsive to new...

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When I first cut my teeth in IT security some years ago, I was a systems administrator for a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the parent of the National Center for Atmospheric Research here in Boulder. UCAR/NCAR is what Gordon Bell calls a “data place” – an organization whose mission in part...

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In the first two installments in this series, I looked at the rise of Tactical security defenses that are becoming more directly reliant on dynamic data feeds Data sources and emerging data markets to serve both security tactics and security intelligence In this post, I’ll look at the third aspect of data-driven security emerging today, and...

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In my last post, the first in this series, I talked about how recent vendor trends highlight the rise of data-driven tactics for defense. This is just one of three major aspects of data-driven security becoming more prominent in products and services. To recap, those three aspects are: Data-driven tactics which differ from legacy security...

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Last week, Sourcefire announced the acquisition of Immunet, a provider of hosted anti-malware technology that delivers more responsive protection to emerging threats without the need for periodic signature updates. Much of the commentary on this deal has focused on the accelerating momentum of hosted security technology plays, and the advantages of security functionality delivered “from...

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One of the things that has amused me to no end in this business is the number of times I have encountered product vendors who emphatically do not want to be characterized as being “a security vendor.” I understand the rationale, as far as it goes: vendors of infrastructure and application technologies do not want...

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