Securonix   provides Security Intelligence solutions for combating Advanced Targeted Threats.

This week, Securonix were privileged to be a sponsor of the inaugural McAfee Sales Engineering Summit, due to our membership of the Security Innovation Alliance. The main themes during the week were clearly focused on the rise of big security data, how it can be managed, assessed and responded to. Security across the entire organisation now requires complete solutions covering the end to end life cycle protection of information assets, from storage to transit and accessibility.

The mini heatwave in London this week, was a welcome addition for the 2-day Spring event for the InfoCrime Summit, held at the Thistle Marble Arch. With the last event only in November, it was good to see a range of varied speaks and industry representatives have their opinion on a range of information security issues.

David Wall from the University of Durham, recently released an interesting journal covering the definition of an insider threat and how organisations can readdress their approach to internal asset protection. As many organisations develop security policies and defences against external cyber based attacks, many often overlook the need to protect critical information assets by trusted paid employees and partners.

Identifying insider misuse is often a complex affair. One of the key ways, is to use behaviour profiling to identify changes to user actions that may constitute a malicious act. There are two main ways this can be completed – firstly via historical analysis and secondly via peer analysis.

RSA 2012 provided a great platform for security professionals to talk about the common need for more shared intelligence. The recent security threats have highlighted the need for solutions that can provide more visibility and intelligence.

Securonix is about to unleash it behavior profiling techniques to catch the bad guys within. look out for our upcoming release 3.2. As always, we welcome beta testers to contact us on info@securonix.com

Not to frighten anyone with this post but the naysayers to the threat of cyberwar must awaken. An article on the BBC news website talks about a hacker that gained access to

Identity Intelligence moves Identity Management from being a user administration technology to a core security offering.

McAfee sure knows how to “focus” on security. With hundreds of participants pouring in from all over the world to the Venetian in Las Vegas, the event boasted of the who’s who

Lulzsec announced that they are going to take it easy for a while. May be they just think its time to give organizations some time to catch their breath, may be lick their wounds or