Tenable Blog

Recently there have been several great books that illustrate the importance of information security in today’s world, including Kevin Mitnick’s “Ghost in the Wires,” Andy Greenberg’s “This Machine Kills Secrets” and Brian Krebs’ “Spam Nation.” Joining the list at the top is Kim Zetter’s “Countdown to Zero Day.” The book tells the story (which you probably thought you already knew) of Stuxnet and the geopolitical maneuverings that brought it into existence. The book is engaging to read and meticulously researched.

With 2014 drawing to a close and the New Year almost upon us, it’s the perfect time to reflect on this year’s security events and to plan for changes in 2015. Certainly 2014 seemed like the year of the security breach, with major retailer breaches, Heartbleed, Shellshock, and Sony dominating the headlines. With over 7000 vulnerability reports published in the National Vulnerability Database so far this year, it would be too easy to become inured to the daily data security news.

To SQL or NoSQL is the big debate among database experts these days. Both types of databases have fundamentally different architectures and support different use cases; hence, they have different pros and cons. On one end you have a mature 40 year old, stable and well understood relational database management system (RDBMS); on the other end you have a young and upcoming, five-year old DBMS which promises the world to you.

About a month ago, I wrote a blog to understand customer interest in a unified framework that would enable multi-vendor, cross-platform collaboration for identity and access management along with vulnerability assessment. This would allow organizations to increase granularity of device and user visibility for identifying risk in their environment and help expedite review and response to critical issues.

The 2014 holiday season is upon us and with it, the forecast of billions in retail sales. There are high expectations not only for record breaking retail revenues but also increased use of mobile payment solutions by consumers making holiday purchases – both online and at retail locations. The release of new mobile payment alternatives is at the forefront of expectations.