Although Linux is still a fraction of the market share of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, its growth continues to accelerate. Linux will continue to grow at compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.2% through 2027. Some of the primary factors for this growth include: Cloud computing infrastructure, Containerization of applications, and Microsoft’s support […]
There are a number of industry analyst reports on application security. Each analyst firm and report takes its own slice of the market to analyze and report on vendors within that market. For example, the Forrester Wave focuses on Static Application Security Testing, the Gartner Magic Quadrant focuses on Application Security Testing as a whole, […]
The Solarwinds Orion SUNBURST attack has been in the news for weeks. We’re starting to get great details into the actual attack, especially after FireEye released the initial set of indicators of compromise. But the question I want answered is why didn’t anyone discover this attack before the breach. What defenses are we missing to […]
The news is flooded with updates regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Cyberattacks are targeting the vaccine supply chain. Phishing attacks are exploiting sign-ups for the vaccine. There are even attacks to get access to vaccine data. Sounds a lot like our enterprises every day! We’re all learning about human immunology from the headlines, but what are […]
The growth of application development, DevOps, containers, and cloud has fueled the growth of application security tools. We now have static analysis, software composition analysis, interactive analysis, dynamic analysis, container scanning, infrastructure as code scanning, and a number of runtime application security products. That’s a lot of testing data, but how do we integrate it […]
The terms machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are way overused terms in our industry. Every vendor seems to have the latest and greatest ML/AI solution to solve your security problem. But when you really dig into the math, there are mathematical models that can actually help us. So why don’t we focus on […]
There are a lot of endpoint security solutions on the market. How do you pick and choose which solution is right for you? The answer may depend on which endpoints you want to protect. Windows? MacOS? Linux? All of the above? What about containers and cloud infrastructure? When we think of traditional endpoints, we immediately […]
Paul and I have talked a lot about his enchanted quadrants on the podcasts, but for those who haven’t watched, here’s a quick summary… An effective security program requires the integration of four key data sources: Logs (firewall, network, application, etc.) Endpoint (files, processes, logs, etc.) Network (flow and packets) Threat Intelligence Most organizations build […]
The endpoint market has been hot for years. At one point, there were over 80 new endpoint vendors trying to displace the traditional anti-virus vendors. The endpoint security market was transitioning from endpoint protection to endpoint detection and response (EDR). EDR is all the rage, but do you really need one? While the endpoint market […]
We’ve all heard the term Immutable Infrastructure, especially with cloud deployments, but what does it really mean? What are the security and compliance impacts of Immutable Infrastructure? Let’s start with a quick overview of Immutable Infrastructure. Simply defined, Immutable Infrastructure means that the state of networks, servers, applications, etc. are not subjected to change in […]
