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NSO Quant: Manage Process Metrics, Part 1

Mike Rothman September 21, 2010 No Comments

We realized last week that we may have hit the saturation point for activity on the blog. Right now we have three ongoing blog series and NSO Quant. All our series post a few times a week, and Quant can be up to 10 posts. It’s too much for us to keep up with, so I can’t even imagine someone who actually has to do something with their days. So we have moved the Quant posts out of the main blog feed. Every other day, I’ll do a quick post linking to any activity we’ve had in the project, which is rapidly coming to a close. On Monday we posted the first 3 metrics posts for the Manage process. It’s the part where we are defining policies and rules to run our firewalls and IDS/IPS devices. Again, this project is driven by feedback from the community. We appreciate your participation and hope you’ll check out the metrics posts and tell us whether we are on target. So here are the first three posts: NSO Quant: Manage Metrics – Policy Review NSO Quant: Manage Metrics – Define/Update Policies and Rules NSO Quant: Manage Metrics – Document Policies and Rules Over the rest of the day, we’ll hit metrics for the signature management processes (for IDS/IPS), and then move into the operational phases of managing network security devices. Share:

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New Paper (+ Webcast): Understanding and Selecting a Tokenization Solution

Rich September 21, 2010 No Comments

Around the beginning of the year Adrian and I released our big database encryption paper: Understanding and Selecting a Database Encryption or Tokenization Solution. We realized pretty quickly there was no way we could do justice to tokenization in that paper, so we are now excited to release Understanding and Selecting a Tokenization Solution. In this paper we dig in and cover all the major ins and outs of tokenization. How it works, why you might want to use it, architectural and integration options, and key selection criteria. We also include descriptions of three major use cases… with pretty architectural diagrams. This was a fun project – the more we dug in, the more we learned about the inner workings of these systems and how they affect customers. We were shocked at how such a seemingly simple technology requires all sorts of design tradeoffs, and the different approaches taken by each vendor. In support of this presentation we are also giving a webcast with the sponsor/licensee, RSA. The webcast is September 28th at 1pm ET, and you can register. The content was developed independently of sponsorship, using our Totally Transparent Research process. You can download the PDF directly here, and the paper is also available (without registration) at RSA. Since they were so nice as to help feed my kid without mucking with the content, please pay them a visit to learn more about their offerings. Share:

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