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FireMon’s Saperix Acquisition In The News
As we have written before, all of us here at FireMon are really excited about the acquisition we announced this week of Saperix Technology and their patented risk analysis technology. But it looks like...
View ArticleInfoSec Europe an Anchor Security Event
Fresh off of the InfoSec Europe security conference I am still invigorated. From my prior post you can see that we had a great show speaking to existing and potentially new customers. But the thing I...
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Sony’s Interesting Take on Firewall Management
I have to admit, like most of you I was amazed to hear that in regard to the recent breaches on the PSN, Sony did not have a firewall in place. I guess one could say that is one way to solve the...
View ArticleAdvancements of Next Generation Firewalls
It seems every day another security vendor releases their version of the NextGen firewall. While Palo Alto Networks staked their claim to the NextGen firewall some time ago, everyone from Check Point...
View ArticleVirtualization and Firewall Management
Chris Hoff (@beaker) had a blog post up recently on his Rational Survivability blog, once again making the call for automating security (and compliance and audit as well) in both physical and virtual...
View ArticleFireMon President & CTO, Jody Brazil, Appears on Security.Exe Podcast
Our very own president and CTO, Jody Brazil, was the guest this week on the Security.Exe podcast, hosted by security blogger/podcaster Alan (ashimmy) Shimel. Jody is a returning guest to the show,...
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Context & Speed: The Key to Network Risk Analysis
Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the United Security Summit. I spoke about Risk Analysis, and compared the world of automobile traffic engineering and network security risk analysis. In my...
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The Report of The Firewall’s Death is Greatly Exaggerated
Today Roger Grimes posted an article on InfoWorld about the overdue death of the firewall: Why you don’t need a firewall. His case rests on two primary arguments: 1. The firewall doesn’t protect...
View ArticleThe Firewall is the Most Successful Technology
Roger Grimes and I have engaged in a very interesting conversation around the necessity and value of firewalls. Yesterday I took issue in my blog post with Roger’s initial claim that the firewall is...
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Configuration Management = Risk Management
Last week I spoke at the United Security Summit about operationalizing risk into everyday security operations (and had some fun with song parody titles along the way as evidenced by the photo attached...
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