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Identify and Close Before the Bad Actor Exploits
/by RedSealIt happened again yesterday. I was taking a break on my back porch and listening to the Colorado summer rain when an alert hit my phone: news of another breach. They seem to be coming with a disturbingly increasing regularity and with ever more serious consequences. For example, one company, Code Spaces, was completely destroyed […]
The Reality Gap
/by RedSealA couple years ago in a conference room with a window looking out on the Arizona desert, two of us sat down with a customer to talk about their network. I asked to see their best network diagram, which he left to retrieve. When he returned, he rolled it out to its full length on […]
We’re Living in Mud Huts
/by Ray Rothrock, Executive Chairman, RedSealIn the modern world, we depend on so many standards to protect us in our everyday lives – without even realizing it. For example, when we walk into a building we expect it will not fall down, even in an earthquake. But before we walk in, we don’t demand to see the drawings, the engineering, […]
What Keeps CEOs Up at Night?
/by Ray Rothrock, Executive Chairman, RedSealPost 3 – What keeps CEOs up at night?
As a CEO, getting a good night’s sleep is harder and harder these days. We used to worry about competition, labor problems, regulatory issues, financing issues, sales and, if our company was public, our stock price. In the 21st century there is a new worry – […]
Somewhere Over the Spreadsheet
/by RedSealTwo years ago I was standing in front of a group of security geeks in Santa Barbara for BSides LA talking about the sophisticated tools that most network engineers use — like “ping” and “traceroute” and even Excel — and about how the broad range of tools available typically didn’t get used in a primordial […]
JIE-READY STEP 4: Develop artifacts for IA and ATO
/by Brandon Hoffman, Federal CTO RedSealThe design and implementation phases of JRSS and JIE will, very likely, receive a significant amount of scrutiny from Information Assurance (IA) to ensure that numerous standards and guidelines are followed. The goal of this scrutiny is to obtain an Authorization to Operate (ATO). There are many different components of the IA process and developing […]
JIE-READY STEP 3: Visualize before migration
/by Brandon Hoffman, Federal CTO RedSealThe phase between design and implementation for JRSS and JIE is critical. During this phase the most important thing is to have full visibility of the entire JIE infrastructure, even before it is migrated. RedSeal provides the bridge mechanism needed during this critical assessment phase.
Visualization can lead to deeper understanding of the current behavior […]
Another Day, Another Breach
/by RedSealOn Wednesday, August 20th, UPS announced that a breach may have compromised customer data during up to 105,000 transactions between January and August. While UPS is to be commended for coming forward so quickly, this breach underscores the truth that organizations with highly sophisticated and advanced capabilities in information technology aren’t inoculated against breaches. It […]
JIE-READY STEP 2: Defense in depth
/by Brandon Hoffman, Federal CTO RedSealDefense in depth is a term and idea that is not new to the information technology world. A classic implementation at the network level of defense in depth is segmentation, or building enclaves. In certain cases, segmentation was taken to an extreme level, resulting in massive decentralization of computing environments. Unfortunately this decentralization does not […]
JIE-READY STEP 1: Know what you have
/by Brandon Hoffman, Federal CTO RedSealThe first and arguably most critical step in any data center consolidation or migration is to first understand what you have. Most complex or large-scale networks have grown so rapidly over the years or decades that there is no clear picture of the functioning system. As the opportunity to refresh large-scale global infrastructure becomes available […]