Comments on Security and Other Topics by Craig Kensek

Postings on network security, Silicon Valley, technology, wine, infrastructure, that ubiquitous cloud, SaAS, web 2.0, marketing, management, strategy, Companies that may be mentioned include the usual security suspects. To name a few, in no particular order - Panda, Trend Micro, ESET, Avast, Symantec, BitDefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos. All of whom market their products as providing much above average security ;) .

Friday, June 25, 2010

Viruses, Internet Security, the First Amendment, Eliott Spitzer, and Escort Services

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The alternative headline was going to be “Who Pimped My Internet Security Product Testing?”, but common sense won out. In 2002, then New Yor...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Virus Bulletin's Latest Reactive and Proactive (RAP)Test Results

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Virus Bulletin has published their latest Reactive and Proactive (RAP) test results. The RAP test measures products' detection rates a...
Monday, June 21, 2010

AVG LinkScanner for Mac Announced by AVG Technologies - 6/24 addendum

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On June 14th, AVG announced AVG LinkScanner for Mac. Like AVG LinkScanner for Windows, it is a free download, designed to protect people in ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

AMTSO Releases Additional Documents on Malware Security Test Design and Testing

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The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (www.amtso.org) recently released a pair of documents to assist the anti-malware testin...
Friday, June 11, 2010

AVG Technologies Acquires Walling Data Systems

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On June 10, security company AVG Technologies announced the acquisition of Walling Data Systems, one of their leading channel partners. Thi...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

AV Comparatives’ Latest Test Results For Anti-Virus Software (Proactive/Retrospective Test)

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In May, testing organization AV Comparatives published their latest Proactive/Retrospective test report. This was for the on-demand detectio...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Power of the Panda - PC Cloud Anti-Virus 1.1 Receives PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award

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Panda Security’s free AV solution, PC Cloud Anti-Virus 1.1, received the PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award in a review posted June 9. Nei...
Monday, June 07, 2010

Security Reviews, Round-ups, and Relevance: Standards & Improved Reviews

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Security vendors, from the 3 A’s (Alwil, Avira, AVG Technologies) to the big three in the US (Trend Micro, McAfee, and Symantec) prefer to...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

Phishing or Phermentation – Santa Cruz Mountains Vintners Festival

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On the weekends of June 5,6 and June 12,13, security employees working out of Symantec, McAfee, or Trend Micro corporate headquarters can fo...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Facebook - Time for a Sanity Check

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It almost seems as if the only people who feel as if it's okay to make all personal information public on a social network reside within...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

When Once Is Not Enough?

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Interesting article by GFI software in IT World about why one virus engine is insufficient in today's world. A number of security appl...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Message in a SaAS Bottle - Symantec Acquires MessageLabs

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This acquisition makes sense for Symantec. It increases their share in the SaAS marketplace, MessageLabs has a good name. Symantec customers...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Security ROI - Can It Be Measured

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ROI is one of the holy grails of financial analysis. The problem is, the numbers to perform the analysis can be hard to obtain. This can be ...

Sophos' Acquisition of Utimaco - DLP Consolidation

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AV/Content security has been perceived as a contest dominated by two 800 pound gorillas (Symantec and McAfee) with Trend lagging behind. The...

Symantec's Proposed Acquisition of MessageLabs

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Owning the company "formerly known as Brightmail" and now acquiring MessageLabs. Major increase in market share for them. Hopefull...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Santa Cruz Mountain Wineries (oh nooooooo)

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Extremely favorable story written in the September 14 issue of the Wall Street Journal about these wineries. The positive? These wineries a...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Allchin Clarifies His Statement on Vista and Antivirus Software

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Microsoft's Jim Allchin (co-president of their platform and services division) has wisely backtracked on his earlier comments that Vista...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Vista and Network Security

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Some of the saber rattling between MSFT and other vendors in the marketplace seems to be toning down a bit. There are mixed messages coming...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Sometimes Irreverence is Just Called For

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Greetings, this is my initial post. Not quite Pulitzer material yet, but I'll work on it. This blog will take an irreverent look at secu...
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