Infosec Mourns Over Howard Schmidt, Who Helped Make the Country a Safer Place

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CSO | March 3, 2017

Howard Schmidt, who passed away yesterday morning at his home after a battle with cancer, was a storied figure in world of cybersecurity.

He advised both President Brack Obama and George W. Bush on cybersecurity. He was a CSO at Microsoft and a CISO at eBay. He led several industry groups, and wrote books on cybersecurity.

But when security professionals remember him, it is not so much for his technical accomplishments as for the impact he had on the people around him. He is remembered as a mentor, a communicator, and an educator.

 

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Why It’s Time for a New Approach to Network Security

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COMPUTER BUSINESS REVIEW | 2 March 2017

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

Dr. Mike Lloyd looks at the year ahead for businesses and security and why having an up-to-date, realistic blueprint of your network is now more important than ever.

Barely two months into the New Year and already we face tales of new cybersecurity incidents are flooding in. Whether it’s the theft of sensitive customer data, corporate espionage, damaging ransomware-related outages or state-sponsored hacking, the risks have never been greater. And no organisation can claim to be 100% safe. But with UK firms each suffering an estimated 230,000 attacks on average in 2016, the focus must now be on building resilience into corporate networks to ensure the coming year is a more secure one for organisations.

 

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Canadian Businesses in “Huge Denial” About Fraud

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PYMNTS | March 2, 2017

The news surrounding corporate security has been dark as of late.

First, just before the start of the new year, researchers at RedSeal concluded that corporates, both large and small, are frankly being “naïve” about their cybersecurity risks. Then, earlier this month, reports from Centrify found new evidence of increases in corporate cyber attacks, suggesting cybersecurity service providers aren’t doing their job.

“Despite over $75 billion spent on cybersecurity in 2016, the products and services from major security companies have failed to stop breaches from occurring, and in fact, the problem is getting worse,” declared Centrify CEO Tom Kemp at the time.

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Meet Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO at RedSeal

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FORBES COUNCILS | February 2017

With Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

“When we build quickly, in a world of accelerating change, we always tend to build fragile.”

Forbes Technology Council members are in a wide range of industries and come from a diverse set of experiences. However, they all have lots of great insights to share, from best practices for technology departments to smart predictions for the future of tech. To showcase their expertise, we’re profiling Forbes Technology Council members here on the blog. This week: Dr. Mike Lloyd.

Dr. Mike Lloyd is CTO of RedSeal, a company producing a network modeling and risk scoring platform for building digitally resilient organizations. RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, modeled after a creditworthiness score, measures how prepared an organization is to respond to an incident and quickly rebound. Lloyd has more than 25 years of experience modeling and controlling fast-moving, complex security and network systems.

 

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Security Is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link

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MONEY AND MARKETS | February 23, 2017

In the current interconnected world of Big Data and the Internet of Things, there are a lot of weak links.

At the RSA Conference this month in San Francisco, Splunk (SPLK), a maker of analytics software, announced five new members to its Adaptive Response Initiative (ARI). The company is pushing all leading cybersecurity vendors to build out solutions around its Enterprise Security framework. And for good reason. Network predation has become the single biggest threat to businesses today.

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The Internet of Things That Can Attack You

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FORBES | February 17, 2017

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

The Internet of Things crashed into the old Internet on Oct 21st, and it wasn’t pretty. A specialized but fairly simple bit of malware known as Mirai was used to cause huge numbers of simple Internet-connected devices (cameras, home routers, baby monitors, etc.) to flood the infrastructure of a service provider called Dyn. This caused widespread collateral damage across the traditional world of social media and entertainment websites.

 

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When Talent and Capital Are Priority One

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MIDDLE MARKET EXECUTIVE [Podcast] | February 14, 2017

With Ray Rothrock, RedSeal Chief Executive Officer

Pursuing a Cyber Vision: A Call for New Leadership Led an Investor to Roll Up His Sleeves

….It’s very noisy [and crowded in the cyber security market].  95% of those companies are focused on prevention and detection — which is necessary, but is not sufficient in today’s cyber environment with the threat field we are facing

New Products of the Week

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NETWORK WORLD | February 13, 2017

RedSeal Network Modeling and Risk Scoring Platform
RedSeal provides a single, comprehensive understanding of network security across users’ datacenter, cloud and software-defined networks. Offers actionable intelligence directly into Splunk’s Enterprise Security SIEM, Rapid7’s Nexpose, and ForeScout’s CounterACT.
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Why 2017 Will Be the Worst Year Ever for Security

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INFO WORLD and IT WORLD | February 2, 2017

Sony. Anthem. The Office of Personnel Management. Target. Yahoo. The past two years have seen one mega-breach after another—and 2017 promises to be the most catastrophic year yet.

Security experts have long warned that most organizations don’t even know they’ve been breached. Attackers rely on stealth to learn about the network, find valuable information and systems, and steal what they want. Only recently have organizations improved their detection efforts and started investing the time, capital, and people needed to uncover vulnerabilities. When they do, the results are often alarming.

“I think we are going to find more, not less, breaches in 2017,” says Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, a security analytics firm.

 

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RedSeal Wins Contract to Support DISA’s Cyber Network Operations

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ARMY TECHNOLOGY NEWS | February 2, 2017

RedSeal has secured a contract to monitor the cyber network operations of the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Valued at $33.8m, the contract requires the company to model and monitor the infrastructure of the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS), a US Department of Defense (DoD) programme to create a standard security architecture, which will eventually support more than 95% of the DoD’s network.

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