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With backgrounds in computer and information sciences as well as business, Matt Allen has worked in a number of different roles at Norman over the past 6 years, varying from incident response and software development to sales and marketing activities.
As Technology & Forensic Analyst, Matt currently works primarily with the SandBox & Technology team on a range of projects.
Matt's primary career interest is corporate finance.
Waterskiing and wakeboarding are Matt's favorite pastimes.
Major developments in the fundamental drivers of the threat landscape have occurred over the past 18 months, affecting organizational IT security strategies in 2011. The dip in new malware advancements in the first half of 2009 signified the shifting point of malicious R&D efforts to the new malware lifecycle phase we observed in 2010.
Three Trends – A changing R&D lifecycle phase
Considering threat landscape changes in 2010, results of the shifting malware R&D efforts that began in mid-2009…
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Layered security strategies commonly use multiple engines and deployment locations to promise increased protection, and security vendors have jumped all over the buzz.
How much additional protection do these strategies add? To apply modern portfolio theory, added value depends on the quality and true diversification of added by layers in relation to solutions deployed. All you need to know is current security breach losses and added detection expected after deploying a new solution.
Let’s look…
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Encapsulating computing operations has been encouraged to maintain integrity by separating and hiding functionality for years. Meanwhile, personal computing technologies have intertwined our daily functions onto one computing platform. Banking, gambling, mailing, and other daily activities are all performed on one machine over a single line of communications.
Lately Ive encountered several critical network infrastructures that havent merged abstract functionality onto mainstream technology platforms.…
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In a previous blog I suggested security solution evolution is driven by the market’s perception of value and actual security value added. A recent NSS Labs report measures real world Anti-Malware solution value, where some of the highest user rated products performed the worst. This indicates opportunity for the Anti-Malware industry to react with new disruptive technologies.
As we end the first half of 2010, let's review some of biggest stories and trends, and what it means for the future.
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In the Anti-Malware industry there is a gap between the customer’s perceived needs and the value supplied by our solutions. This chasm is the result of the following:
- Consumers expect 100% protection from threats. With more than 50,000 increasingly complex threats released daily, this is a daunting challenge that is becoming increasingly infeasible.
- Anti-Malware experts see the threat landscape as a big picture. There is an ethical obligation to prioritize assets and capabilities in…
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