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Neil MacDonald: We Need a Global Industry-wide Application Whitelist

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April 3, 2009 My previous post on whitelisting has generated a lot of comments. Buried in the comment stream, I made this statement: "I look forward to the time (hopefully soon) when an industry co READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/04/03/we-need-a-global-in...

Neil MacDonald: Whitelisting, Meet Virtualization. Virtualization, Meet Whitelis...

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April 10, 2009 As I have discussed, x86 hardware virtualization creates a new IT platform that must be securely maintained (e.g. patch, configuration and vulnerability management) like any other IT READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/04/10/whitelisting-meet-v...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-brainer #3: Root of Trust Measurements for Hyperviso...

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April 18, 2009 During the course of my blogging activities, this is the third time I've talked about something the security industry should do that I believe is so obvious that I called it a "no-br READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/04/18/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-Brainer #4: EV-Certificates for ISVs

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May 1, 2009 Let me summarize my security no-brainers to date: The first was in reference to a global, industry-wide effort to create a shareable, standards-based application whitelist database b READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/05/01/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-Brainer #5: Security and Management Tools Need to Wo...

Votes:33 Comments:0
May 11, 2009 In my last post, I talked about several impending inflection points for information security. Click the URL above to read the full article READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/05/11/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-Brainer #6: Encryption Needs to be Extended to All P...

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June 24, 2009 Most of us know by now that encryption of mobile laptops should be considered mandatory. However, encryption of the direct attached storage used in fixed desktops and servers hasn't b READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/06/24/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-Brainer #7: If You Have Intellectual Property Embedd...

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July 7, 2009 I saw this in an article today on Bloomerberg: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may lose its investment in a proprietary trading code and millions of dollars from increased competition if sof READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/07/07/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-Brainer #8: Run Users As Standard User

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August 13, 2009 Mostly for legacy reasons, many of us continue to run users with administrative privileges on their Windows workstations. Click the URL above to read the full article READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/08/13/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Security No-Brainer #9: Application Vulnerability Scanners Shoul...

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August 19, 2009 If a web application security testing tool tells me I have a vulnerability in an application, what do I do? "Fix it" is the right answer, but not always so easy if my development or READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/08/19/security-no-brainer...

Neil MacDonald: Application Security: A Tool Cannot Solve What Fundamentally is ...

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March 7th, 2009 One of the areas I research is application security - not only how to develop applications that are more secure, but also how applications should be architected to consume security READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/03/07/application-securit...

Neil MacDonald: We Are Toast (II)

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May 19th, 2009 In a previous post, I discussed IBM's latest X-Force malware report that showed a significant increase in disclosed web application vulnerabilities (one of those curves that is headi READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/05/19/we-are-toast-ii/

Neil MacDonald: Should AV be Free?

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June 23rd, 2009 I saw today on this website that Microsoft has released the beta offering of its free consumer-oriented antivirus/antispyware protection solution called Microsoft Security Essential READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/06/23/should-av-be-free/

Neil MacDonald: We Are Toast

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March 16th, 2009 Take a look at this graph from the latest IBM ISS X-Force labs latest malware report and guess what it shows: Click the URL above to read the full article READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/03/16/we-are-toast/

Neil MacDonald: Yes, Macs are Vulnerable Too

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September 25, 2009 Do Macintosh machines need AV? Click the URL above to read the full article READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/09/25/yes-macs-are-vulner...

Neil MacDonald: Stop Paying for Anti-Spyware

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May 18th, 2009 I had a conversation with a client last week where their incumbent antivirus provider was trying to charge them separately for antispyware capabilities in addition to their antivirus READ MORE
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/05/18/stop-paying-for-ant...
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