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Microsoft’s new advice for securing Active Directory does customers a disservice by focusing on the wrong things. Tomorrow’s “Zero Trust” and Azure roadmaps won’t stop today’s ransomware epidemic. Enterprises need to protect the Active Directory they’ve already got.

7 min read ∙ December 22, 2020

Andrew Jaquith

Paving Over the Proprietary Web: The Java Security Bigger Picture

Perhaps you’ve heard about the recently disclosed Java 7 zero-day exploit. The flaw allows a remote attacker to take complete control of a computer. It has been incorporated into many exploit kits.

7 min read ∙ January 21, 2013

Andrew Jaquith

The Futility of Geographic Security Metrics

While I would not call this a trend, I have noticed that lots of security companies like to put together impressive-looking charts, graphs and reports that purport to compare various metrics by country. Here are two recent examples:

6 min read ∙ July 19, 2007

Andrew Jaquith

Charging for Guaranteed Spam: Better Than It Sounds?

Much ink has been spilled over the recent AOL and Yahoo announcements that they will charge marketers five cents per e-mail to guarantee delivery of their mail, thus bypassing their spam filters.

Lots of people been rendered spitting mad by the plan. Three things seem obvious to me about how and why these plans came about:

3 min read ∙ February 12, 2006

Andrew Jaquith

Blended Threats == Hemlock Smoothies

An open letter to all anti-virus software makers: February 2, 2006 Dear Antivirus Industry, Why are you so addicted to the term “blended threat”? It seems to mean something special to you… but it means nothing to anybody else.

2 min read ∙ February 11, 2006

Andrew Jaquith

The Natives are Restless

Many readers know that my day job is as a security technology analyst for Yankee Group. Well, it’s about that time of year where we start to wind down our research calendar.

2 min read ∙ November 29, 2005