What is the difference between Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW)? Anitian explored these two technologies and finds they are much more similar than some people want you to believe.
Repost: Black Hat Hype Hurts the Risk Management Process
While Black Hat has been notably quieter and less frothy this year, this article (published in 2010) still rings true. Hype damages the ability of people to make sound, rational, risk-based analysis of security issues.
Packet Goes Where? The Value of Firewall Naming Conventions
A zillion or so years ago, humans developed writing. This was a big deal for civilization. People could document things like how to get rid of lice, defend castles from Huns and which berries are toxic. Civilization would have quickly succumbed to lice, toxic berries and Huns were it not for the foresight of learned […]
Cultural Zero-Day: How Poor Leadership Begets Security Weakness
In the ten years Anitian has been working incident response and digital forensic cases, our analysts have observed many ingenious ways to break into systems and applications. However, they rarely encounter an ingenious root cause for the vulnerabilities. After all the analysis and disk imaging is complete, the root cause is almost always the same: […]
PCI: I Find Your Lack of Scope Disturbing
I find your lack of a scope of compliance disturbing.
The Cult of Palo Alto Networks
What is it about Palo Alto Networks? They seem more like a cult than a firewall manufacturer.
