I am kicking off a monthly blog post that will wrap up some of the previous month’s top stories in endpoint security. This idea originally occurred to me when I thought about the life of an IT/security professional today. Teams that are not using application whitelisting need to respond to every single attack and vulnerability uniquely. This is the proverbial case of treating the symptoms instead of the disease. This monthly post will highlight many of the major “symptoms” that teams are struggling to deal with. Our take: deal with the disease.
Last month featured a number of interesting, if troubling stories, ranging from the largest credit card theft indictment in history, to using Twitter to control botnets. So without further ado, here are a selection of some of the top endpoint security stories for August 2009: Continue reading this post…