CSA 2012 keynote: Attack data vital to securing cloud-based systems
November 7, 2012
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Robert Westervelt.
The private sector needs to iron out new ways to share anonymous attack data or face serious consequences, brought on by expanding information stores and cloud computing services that are complicating the process of deploying security technologies, said Dave Cullinane, CEO of Security Starfish LLC and chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance.
In Tuesday’s opening keynote of the Cloud Security Alliance Congress, Cullinane sought to inspire a room full of IT security pros to transform their security programs by implementing an intelligence-based security strategy. The goal, Cullinane said, is to allocate resources more effectively by perceiving future threats to systems based on actionable intelligence. He warned that many organizations are spending millions on security technologies that protect the wrong resources…
"The potential for people with whatever agenda to cause an erosion of the fundamental trust in things we rely on and depend upon every day is one of [the] major risks we face and we have to do something about it," Cullinane said. "We have to create the ability to provide the vital information everybody needs to know so we can quit chasing the enemy."…
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