posted by: Chris King on December 17, 2010 10:23 PM
filed in: application usage & risk report, PCI compliance
Network Security Check-Up for Health Care Networks
Health care providers are an interesting situation with regard to network security. Like many industries, they’re dealing with rapid technological change in the face of a variety of regulations – in the U.S. health care industry it’s HIPAA and HITECH, and PCI – focused on the portability, security and privacy of PHI and the security of patients’ credit card data, respectively.
At the same time, their users are adopting many of the same high-risk, high-reward applications that users in other industries are adopting. The problem, as in most industries, is the high-risk, low-reward applications that so many health care employees use in addition to useful Internet-hosted applications.
Recently, I had a chance to talk to a group of folks in health care – specifically folks concerned with network security. …Continue reading
posted by: Srinivas Avasarala on December 10, 2010 1:50 PM
filed in: Uncategorized
tagged: App-ID, application control, application usage & risk report, FASP
What’s APPening with FASP
A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is an application layer protocol that is among the many alternatives that have been designed to address this issue. It uses UDP instead of TCP as the underlying transport layer and leverages the fact that bulk file transfer does not require in-order delivery of byte streams. …Continue reading
posted by: Matt on December 3, 2010 5:40 PM
filed in: Uncategorized
tagged: application control, circumvention, Firewall
Which is Riskier: Consumer Devices or the Applications In Use?
A somewhat rhetorical question really. Much like which came first, the chicken or the egg. In his ThreatPost article, George Hulme highlights the challenges and risks associated with allowing consumer-owned devices (phones, laptops, netbooks, tablets) onto corporate networks.
