“Information Security workers have found themselves caught up in this wave of change. Originally, it was an important and vital job to track down the current virus threats, manage the Service Packs in [Pick your Windows flavor here], install the few hotfixes needed and call it a day. The rest of our time was spent on the important matters – defining”
The “wave of change” keeps me employed, but I must agree with Karn at Security-Guru.blogspot. There is a lot of times that I’m just playing “wack a mole” with security problems. The root of the problem needs to be taken care of.
There is a movement of more proactive security instead of the old losing reactive security:
– At Defcon Rick Wesson of Support Intelligence, LLC introduced a method of tracking botnets, and black listed malware server globally and in real-time.
– Microsoft is heading up a proactive security project called Strider HoneyMonkey Exploit Detector. It is a kind of active honeypot that follows the links of malicious sites to find new exploits.read more | digg story
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