Outflanked!: Time For Data-Centric Security
As vendors, security industry pundits, politicians, and CISOs fire volleys back and forth over the best way to protect data, attackers are taking advantage of our confusion: The consensus among the infosec community is that 2009 was worse than 2008 in terms of data loss, and that’s saying something. Remember 2008? The year 285 million records were breached—a number exceeding all of the records exposed from 2004 through 2007? Respondents to our InformationWeek Analytics Data-Centric Security Survey know something needs to give—and they hope it’s not the gates holding back the marauding hordes.
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Outflanked!: Time For Data-Centric Security
About the Author
Michael A. Davis is the CEO of Savid Technologies, a technology and security consulting firm based in Chicago, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. Michael is also a contributing author of Hacking Exposed, the No. 1 text on hacker methodology, and the new Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits.
He is a senior member of the HoneyNet project, where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for Windows-based honeynets. Michael is an active developer in the open source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform, including snort, honeyd, dsniff, and ngrep. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including Defcon, CanSecWest, Toorcon and MISTI, as well as to local groups.
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