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Security alerts are valuable beyond the Security Team
Tim G. | 30 Mar 2011 | 0 comments

As security practitioners, one of the common misconceptions most of us have is that the alerts we receive about application or system vulnerabilities are really only of interest and use to us, and maybe to the extended IT team. 

 

Now I’m not advocating providing your CEO with detailed alerts about every application vulnerability out there, but there are specific use cases that can inform the directives of other internal teams, not to mention our ability to provide a high level summary of what the threat landscape looked like in the prior period to these business unit leaders who are likely involved in risk management tradeoffs.

 

For example, if you receive alerts about possible phishing sites exploiting your brand or campaigns against your customer base, as a security practitioner the common viewpoint has been “well it’s the end-user’s system and choice.”  But give that same information to your...

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Symantec MSS EMEA SOC featured on BBC Newsnight cyberwar special
dstuart | 09 Mar 2011 | 0 comments

by David Stuart, Manager of Symantec MSS Product Marketing

Symantec’s Managed Security Services (MSS)EMEA Security Operations Centre (SOC) was recently highlighted in a 10-minute BBC Newsnight special on the subject of cyberwar.  As part of the feature, specifics are shared regarding the need for governments worldwide to call for ‘rules of engagement’ for cyber conflict and the new dimensions the Internet creates for international politics.

In preparation for this special, a Newsnight producer had an initial conversation with Symantec’s Liam O’Murchu on his analysis of Stuxnet. Following that conversation, three members of the...

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RSA® Conference 2011 Highlights
dstuart | 31 Mar 2011 | 0 comments

by David Stuart, Manager of Symantec MSS Product Marketing

Another RSA conference has come and gone so it feels appropriate to take a moment and summarize significant experiences from the event.   Overall, the conference activity level was busy as ever and seemed to match or surpass its former heydays – hopefully a sign of our strengthening economy.  Highlights of the week for Symantec and MSS were;

  • Symantec Managed Security Services (MSS) had its own demo/display area and over 100 customers/prospects stopped by to learn more during the three expo days.  If you would like to download MSS or other Symantec literature, visit the Symantec RSA Collateral Resource Center. 
     
  • Symantec launched the beta of Symantec Endpoint Protection 12, which will provide the only reputation-based security solution that is context-aware. With SEP 12,...
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Symantec MSS at RSA® Conference 2011
dstuart | 15 Feb 2011 | 0 comments

Symantec MSS at RSA® Conference 2011
by David Stuart, Manager of Symantec MSS Product Marketing

We’re pleased this year to be participating in the Symantec booth (#1416) on the RSA show floor at the San Francisco Moscone Center,  Feb 14-17.   Symantec Managed Security Services (MSS) has its own demo kiosk so look for our sign. 

 Please stop by and talk to Symantec MSS security engineers and other experts and learn about the following;

  • How our ‘edge-to-endpoint’ managed service approach offers superior protection without breaking your security budget
  • See a demo of Symantec DeepSight™ early warning system for vulnerability and global threat intelligence
  • Experience how today’s stealthy exploits enter and infect your organization and what protections you should have in place to mitigate

In addition, Symantec MSS has been selected as a SC...

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Context is Key to Effective Incident Detection
symc_seanm | 23 Feb 2011 | 0 comments

In spite of mounting evidence to the contrary, many of the enterprise security leaders with whom I speak seem to still be living in a world where the greatest threat to their enterprise was the “hacker” trying to breach their firewall.  When the MSSP industry was born in the late 90’s, this may have been the case.  The entire industry rose in part as a result of the development of intrusion detection (IDS) technologies.  The earliest IDS sensors were signature-based and focused on, as the name implies, detecting intrusions to the network.  Because many enterprises were ill-prepared to deal with the volume of alerts and high rate of false positives, Managed Security Service providers emerged to provide a means to validate and evaluate the alerts generated by these sensors.  Over time, the IDS industry matured to incorporate technologies such as protocol anomaly...

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