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Last Friday I got to see a presentation by Tom Ervin, a Cyber Squad Computer Scientist with the FBI in San Antonio hack into computers in a demo at the local InfraGard meeting. It was pretty cool - at one point Tom asked for a volunteer / victim, who was seated before a PC near the front. On the main display, Tom acted as…
Well, I guess technically MARS doesn't need anybody anymore, since Cisco is in the slow process of killing it. Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) is a SIEM product, and by many accounts, well-liked. As early as 2008, however, rumors of trouble in Cisco-MARS-land began to surface. The actual…
Meeting Security and Compliance Customer Needs EasyStreet uses SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) to provide Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to their private cloud customers. As a cloud services provider, EasyStreet offers a spectrum of services, with SIEM and Log Management as recent additions. I spoke…
I attended Austin BSides on March 20. What a great event for security practitioners. I learned more in the one day for the princely sum of $10 than many $3000 RSA trips!! BSides is dominated by security practitioners sharing their expertise, rather than vendors tirelessly (and tiresomely) plugging products. Here is a photo…
Let’s start with the easy stuff. Kirk, so emotional and brand-conscious -- he would buy Splunk for SIEM. First, he would ask for the Splunk people to provide an alien chick to assist in the evaluation, but that is stuff for another blog. Janeway would write her own SIEM, and fail wildly. Tuvok would shrug it off as just…
I’ve been at SolarWinds almost 4 weeks now and I’ve been sitting in on a lot of prospect sales calls, to get a feel for SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) customers and their use cases for SIEM and Log Management. A surprising number already have Splunk, but it does not appear to be satisfying them. LEM, like most SIEMs,…
I attended the Austin ISSA-sponsored Advanced Splunk Training session on March 6. As always, the ISSA chapter delivered meaty technical training, and it was free! The event was co-sponsored by BSides and Splunk. While all kinds of interesting Splunk technical info was presented, for me, the most interesting part was…
Javvad won “Most Entertaining Security Blogger” at RSA 2013. We had to check that out! Turns out, his security videos ROCK! He explains really dry, boring and complicated security topics in a fun and completely palatable way. Plus, with the videos, no pesky reading is involved KB: HOW DID YOU GET STARTED BLOGGING? JM: In…
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