Security Wire Weekly - A SearchSecurity.com podcast

Security Wire Weekly:

 

A SearchSecurity.com podcast


A recap of the week\'s top information security news, plus interviews with information security experts and professionals.

Security Squad Roundtable: Wi-Fi security; Patch Tuesday

SearchSecurity.com editors discuss whether Microsoft should abandon Patch Tuesday, whether blogging is a security threat to corporate systems, the state of Wi-Fi security and Verizon’s acquisition of CyberTrust.

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Security Wire Weekly: Sourcefire founder, Marty Roesch

Snort creator and Sourcefire founder Marty Roesch talks about last year’s failed Check Point acquisition and his decision to take Sourcefire public. Also, a summary of this week’s news.

 
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Security360 — Industry Consolidation

Andy Jones, a researcher with the UK-based Information Security Forum, explains how to develop an effective security strategy to deal with large projects and defend the budget. Paul Adamonis, director of security solutions at Forsythe Security talks about how to navigate industry consolidation by developing a buying strategy; and Sandra Kay Miller gives her observations of the industry and explains why some companies may not fare well in this era of consolidation. (Runtime: 25:01).

 
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Security Wire Weekly: Blogging security

Security consultant Don Ulsch of Jefferson-Wells discusses the risk of blogging on company-owned mobile devices. Also, a summary of this week’s news.

 
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Security Wire Weekly: Penetration testing

Core Security’s Ivan Arce discusses the pros and cons of penetration testing, “month-of” flaw disclosure projects and hacking contests. Also, a summary of this week’s news.

 
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Security Wire Weekly: Microsoft updates

Mark Allen, a patch analyst with Shavlik Technologies discusses Microsoft’s recent updates, including the zero-day DNS patch and the Exchange and Internet Explorer updates. Plus, a summary of this week’s IT security news.

 
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Security Squad: Mac hacks

In the debut edition of SearchSecurity.com’s Security Squad roundtable news-talk podcast, editors debate the growing concern about Apple security and whether Apple really cares about keeping its products secure, the emergence of Google hacking as an enterprise data security threat and the pros and cons of “dumbing down” the PCI Data Security Standard.

 
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Security Wire Weekly: Spam techniques

Sven Krasser from Secure Computing discusses new and dangerous techniques the bad guys are working into image spam. Plus, a summary of this week’s IT security news.

 
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Security360: Endpoint encryption

Burton Group senior analyst Trent Henry explains the most effective approach to endpoint security and the pros and cons of full disk encryption, Roger Herbst, a senior IT specialist with the Timken Company talks about how he led his company’s deployment of full disk encryption on about 5,000 employee laptops, and Charles King, principal analyst of Pund-IT Research discusses Seagate’s new encrypted hard drive. (Runtime: 20:43)

 
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Security360: SOA and Web Services Security

SearchSecurity.com’s Security360 podcast offers fresh perspectives — from vendors, experts and infosec pros — on a variety of complex information security issues. In our debut episode, we examine the state of security for service-oriented architectures and Web services. ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg offers an overview of the security issues unique to SOA environments, while executives from SAP and Oracle discuss how they address SOA security in their software. (Runtime: 29:45)

 
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