Matt Miller, VP of engineering at CounterStorm stopped to talk to me for a few minutes in the F5 booth at the RSA 2007 security conference in February. We talked about his company’s intrusion analysis product and their speciality in targeted threat detection. They’re using a technology called statistical ...

Things get deadly.

The increasingly innovative (yet low-tech) methods employed by foreign and home-grown terrorists require even more innovative, high-tech security measures.

If your enterprise is unsure how an attacker might employ an improvised explosive device against your people or facility, this mini-documentary is the perfect primer to kick-start your physical security ...

Ron Gula, CTO (and CEO) of Tenable Network Security, stopped by the F5 booth to talk about what he’d seen at RSA and what the future holds for Tenable. Tenable is best known for the Nessus scanner, written by their Chief Research Officer, Renaud Deraison, and Ron is known ...

The Big Picture on Security recently caught up with two Chief Security Officers and took the opportunity to ask them what they saw as the major security trends of 2006 and what the remainder of 2007 might have in store for enterprise security.

This episode was recorded in February, and features ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency is relying on technology to balance the needs of homeland security with the needs of legitimate trade and business. To do this, the agency is increasingly turning to information technology as a means of verifying the identity of the 1.1 million travellers who ...

Dr. Maurice Ramirez is the founding chairman of the American Board of Disaster Medicine. In this episode of The Big Picture on Security, Dr. Ramirez brings us up close and personal with the likely impact of a global flu pandemic, which he and most other experts say is certain to ...

This is a program I’m calling PodTech on Pandemic Preparedness. Say that five times fast!

In all seriousness, pandemic influenza has health care experts and scientists all over the world scrambling to prepare for a global disease outbreak that could be as deadly as ebola and as common as the common ...

The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) held a joint kick-off ceremony on April 5 to announce National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, which will take place from April 8 through April 14.

Dan Verton attended the ceremony and took part in a tour ...

Intel Researcher Nina Taft says she was inspired by a newspaper article on how diversity in nature helps organisms thwart the threat of viruses. Her application of principles of biodiversity and her investigation into personalizing security, user by user, could reduce attacks in enterprise networks. Jason Lopez recorded this podcast.

Polycom Inc. is offering first responder organizations, government enterprises and private companies that are concerned about disaster preparedness and remote training solutions, new mobile video teleconferencing systems that integrate fully interactive white boarding capabilities. I caught up with the company at this year’s FOSE convention in Washington, D.C.

It might be hard to imagine how a small error in a line of software code can destroy a company’s brand image or even result in loss of life. But Parasoft Corp. has made a business out of just these types of potential incidents.

I caught up with the company at ...

Ron Hackett, the Document Detective program manager for SRS Technologies, hinted recently that the Pentagon is very concerned about the leakage of sensitive and classified information. That’s why they’re scooping up every copy of the Document Detective software they can get their hands on, according to Hackett, who I interviewed ...

Hundreds of technology and security companies gathered this week in Washington, D.C., for the 2007 Federal Office Systems Expo, or FOSE Convention. One company I caught up with, Eye Q Development Inc., showcased its credentialing technology, which uses RFID to help first responders and security officials pinpoint the location of ...

Wondering what a DocumentATM is? Actually, it’s the name of a company that builds and operates what are known as Secure Mobile Document Scan Platforms. These large trucks are equipped with state-of-the-art scanning, storage and communications systems, can operate independently for weeks at a time, and can help enterprises of ...

I had a chance to speak with Dean Turner, executive editor at Symantec and the person ultimately responsible for the Internet Security Threat Report. The ISTR is Symantec’s semiannual review of the state of malicious traffic on the Internet, the latest of which was reported Monday, March 18th. Here is ...

Robert Caudill, group manager of worldwide government solutions at Adobe Systems Inc., describes Adobe’s unique view of continuity-of-operations planning. The company best known for its popular productivity and multi-media applications like Photoshop, Adobe Reader and Flash Player is now making an important case for considering how your business processes will ...

Chris Jensen is a detective with the Phoenix Police Department. Last summer the police in Phoenix rushed to deploy a network of wireless security cameras throughout the city to help track down multiple serial killers. Not surprisingly, Jensen and Mohan Natrajan, the vice president of engineering at Firetide Inc., the ...

At RSA 2007, I got to speak with Alan Shimel, chief strategy officer at StillSecure. We talked about the “insider threat,” the number of NAC solutions at RSA and the power that blogging has taken on, even in the security arena.

Disclosure: Since recording this interview, I have been ...

In this episode, I sit down with Chris Shenefiel, central government solution manager at Cisco Systems, to discuss the basics of Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) for IT managers and business leaders.

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions about the new tools available to consumers, and how far we’ve come. Joining McKeay are Dan Mathews and Brae Legg of Verizon Business.

I recently caught up with my friend (and fellow security blogger) Cutaway, of the Security Ripcord blog. We talked about the difficulty of finding your way around the showroom floor, the problems with a saturated EVDO network and Norman Sandbox utilities.

This is the second part of a two-part podcast dealing with some of the Internet security issues raised by many Web 2.0 applications. Kailash Ambwani is the CEO of FaceTime Communications.

The arrival of the Web 2.0 world has brought with it a universe of new ways to stay connected with one another. All those connections have brought with them a new universe of security risks. Web 2.0 tools like instant messaging, Web conferencing and P2P file transfers, among others essentially ...

As part of my continuing series, “If You Were Cyber Security Czar,” I caught up with Liz Gasster, the Acting Executive Director and Legal Counsel of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance. To answer the question, “what would you do if tomorrow you were named cyber security czar,” Gasster discussed ...