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Geoff Webb

Job title:
senior product marketing manager, Credant Technologies

Areas of expertise:
security, compliance, security process automation, security information, event management

Biography:
Geoff Webb has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and has provided commentary on security and compliance trends, and written on a number of related topics for such journals and websites as: CIO Update, The Tech Herald, Compliance Authority, Virtual Strategy Magazine, TechBlind, Internetnews.com, e-Finance & Payments, Law & Policy, Dark Reading, BankInfoSecurity.com, Payment News and InfoSecurity.com, among others. As a senior manager of product marketing at Credant Technologies, Webb is responsible for compliance, security management and configuration control solutions. Prior to Credant, Webb held management positions at NetIQ, FutureSoft, SurfControl and JSB. Webb holds a combined bachelor of science degree in computer science and prehistoric archaeology from the University of Liverpool.

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Casablanca in the Cloud
I thought this piece by Jo Maitland over at SearchCloudComputing.com was interesting, because it so closely reflects the experiences of a large number of businesses faced with the specter of uncontrolled cloud usage. Indeed, the story is an old, familiar one: Girl meets cloud. Girl ...
Posted 11 January 2012 by Geoff Webb
tags: Cloud, Security, Storage
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Looking Into The Cloud
As we roll up to the end of the year it's usually time to start making predictions about what will happen next year. But since Drew and the team already did a great job of that I'll instead take a step back and take a look at the shape of the forest, rather than discuss individual trees (import ...
Posted 21 December 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Cloud, APT, NSA, Security Predictions
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Personal Data Exodus
I came across a couple of interesting stories this week, both of which are worth passing along.This first is from geek.com and is the latest in an unfolding story regarding security researcher Trevor Eckhart  and data being collected by software installed on Android phones.  Lots ...
Posted 01 December 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Trevor Eckhart, Data Security, CarrierIQ, Android, Amazon
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Attacking the Human Wall
Good post here from Brandon Williams on the inherent weakness of security processes that ignores the human element. There's nothing new in saying that humans are the weakest link in the security chain (ok, in *most* people's security chain) but Brandon's right: People really are the new perimeter. ...
Posted 28 October 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Security, RSA, Cloud, Social Engineering
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Failing PCI Policy?
This is a good read if you missed it – the most recent report by the ever-interesting Verizon PCI and Risk Intelligence Teams on the state of PCI Compliance. It's the usual mix of "no surprise there" moments followed by a few "Huh, really?  REALLY?" sections. Ov ...
Posted 13 October 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: PCI DSS, Verizon, Security Policy, compliance
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Insider Attack: Three Key Considerations
“Insider attack” is back in the news, getting attention again, with good reason. This particular article, “Insiders increasingly linked to data breaches in the financial sector” on infosecurity-us.com discusses the continuing problem of insiders within the financial services ...
Posted 21 September 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Insider Attack, Cloud, Phishing, Open Security Foundation
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Dropping In
Magnus Stjernstrom recently pointed out Cisco’s advice on how to detect Dropbox traffic originating in your network. It’s interesting given what it tells us about the concerns of Cisco's customers: "Dropbox network traffic may consume network resources and may be a vector f ...
Posted 22 August 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Cloud, Security, Dropbox, Cisco
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Losing Control
I saw this recently and it really drove home on the key truths about cloud computing when it comes to control over your information. Here's a great quote: "Any data which is housed, stored or processed by a company, which is a U.S. based company or is wholly owned by a U.S. parent compan ...
Posted 02 August 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Security, Cloud, Patriot Act
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Smart Thinking
Most people may not immediately recognize the name Reinhold Niebuhr, but they are probably familiar with some version of his best known prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference.&q ...
Posted 01 July 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Smartphone, Security, Cloud, NSA, Consumerization
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Unhealthy Irritation
I have to admit, I find this sort of thing just irritating: The Register last week reported that eight million patient records were lost on a laptop. Unencrypted records.  No, really. As a spokesperson for the UK's National Health Service (NHS) said: "We have set clear standards for NHS ...
Posted 20 June 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: NHS, Laptop, Encryption, Breach
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Wild West of Data Security
Question for the day: What can the turn-of-the century cattle industry teach us about cloud security? Quite a lot, I believe – especially by the ways in which driving cattle and keeping data secure are so very different. Back in the 1880s driving cattle across the US was big business. Mi ...
Posted 31 May 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Security, Cloud
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Finding a Home for BitLocker
With the last several posts being about BitLocker  (and especially Recovery Keys) hopefully you now have some idea of the things you will want to think about when planning for a BitLocker deployment.  Beyond that, however, the obvious question that now needs to be addressed is: Where ...
Posted 17 May 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: BitLocker, Encryption, Security
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Amazon Sneezed (and the Cloud Caught a Cold?)
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.  – F. Scott Fitzgerald So last week was, depending on who you ask, a terrible week for "The Cloud," a wakeup call for businesses who want to use cloud services, or nothing all that surprising. In case you have only just e ...
Posted 28 April 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Security, Cloud, AWS
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Opening up BitLocker, part 2 – Recovery Keys
Last time  I covered an introduction to BitLocker, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and what TPM does to assist in keeping your system secure. This time I'm writing about the most important aspect of BitLocker management – Recovery Keys (and Recovery Passwords too).  While one ...
Posted 14 April 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: BitLocker, Encryption, Recovery Key
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Opening up BitLocker
It's hard to avoid the flurry of bad press following the recent loss of a laptop by a BP employee. Unfortunately for all concerned, the lost laptop contained the names and personal details of some 13,000 claimants from the Deepwater Horizon spill.  The problem, of course, is not that the lapto ...
Posted 01 April 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Encryption, BitLocker
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Does a High-Performance Cloud Make For More Work?
A couple of quick thoughts here, mostly around the changing scale of the task of securing information in the cloud. I think we see a couple of interesting trends here and they are, well, not necessarily complementary. The first is that the cloud providers are getting serious about scaling their ope ...
Posted 11 March 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: cloud, security
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Keeping Control in the Cloud
I had a great talk with Fred Donovan this week regarding cloud security. It's pretty clear that organizations of all kinds are very concerned about the risks (and the cost of those risks) when moving to adopt cloud services.  It's also fair to say that the cloud providers are working diligentl ...
Posted 04 March 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Security, Cloud, Encryption
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Cloud, here we come!
Cloud, here we come!  Or is it rather more a case of "We're already here, so make the best of it..."? I spent some time today talking to a good friend of mine who also happens to be the head of security for a large European financial services business. Unsurprisingly we got on to the ...
Posted 11 February 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Security, Cloud, Financial Services, EU Privacy, IaaS
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Dining in the Cloud
I enjoyed Matthew Gardener's blog this week on the potential for the re-emergence of security silos as a result of the growing move out into the cloud. I think he's right, of course.  If you think of the emeregence of any number of technologies, from desktop computing, through client-server, t ...
Posted 28 January 2011 by Geoff Webb
tags: Cloud, Security
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Insider attack, staplers, and something cloudy
This piece in InfoSecurity reminded me of a recent webinar I did with Jake Kouns of the Open Security Foundation.  (An archive of which is available if you are interested.) Insider Threat is such an emotive term. It's hard not to imagine suspicious Milton-esque characters lurkin ...
Posted 22 December 2010 by Geoff Webb
tags: Insider Attack, Open Security Foundation, datalossdb, Cloud Security
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