Napera

NCA’s 2008 Security and Technology Conference was yesterday and Carlos Dominguez of Cisco opened the day with a high energy presentation that set a very high standard. I was pleased with the interest in my afternoon presentation on TJX, which was well attended.

The TJX data breach is worth following for two reasons. One is simply the mind boggling scale of compromising 45 million cards and nearly half a million identities over a period of years. Another is the demonstration of some great IT security precepts that everyone can learn from. In my presentation I give an overview of the American hackers who broke into the TJX network, the Eastern European and Chinese carders who facilitated the trading of the stolen cards, and the money mules in Miami who were caught using the cards.

The most important lesson of TJX is the simplest one – protect customer data at all costs, because once the genie has escaped from the bottle, it’s too late. I’ll look at distilling some of the presentation points into a blog post in the future.
Read the full article…

I’m speaking Wednesday at 2pm at NCA’s 2008 Security and Technology Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue. Tomorrow is the first public showing of a new presentation I’ve been working on for a few months, covering the TJX data breach that occurred over a three year period. I’ve spent hours reading the various reports and indictments in order to make some sense of what happened both during the hack and the aftermath, and to find out what IT managers can learn from the incident. Napera also has a booth at the conference and will be demonstrating our product. Drop by and say hello!

Tomorrow at 10am PST I’ll be joining Jeff Wilson from Infonetics in a webinar titled ‘Beyond The Firewall’. The focus of our discussion will be on quantifiying and understanding why many businesses remain vulnerable to security threats despite investing heavily in firewalls and antivirus solutions.

If you are interested in learning more, you can sign up for the Napera Webinar here.

Andrew Conry-Murray at InformationWeek stopped by at Interop for a video interview to talk about Napera products and NAC in the SME.
Read the full article…