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SOURCE Boston: Fighting Security Burnout
If you're attending SOURCE Boston, there's a discussion Thursday at 11 a.m. you should attend. It deals with a subject we've been working hard to address at Akamai: burnout in the security industry, and how we can make things better by tapping into the better angels of our nature.Related audio: Humanity in Security
SOURCE Boston 2014: Need a Job? Stop By Our Table
Attention, SOURCE Boston attendees: If you or anyone you know needs a job, come by our booth. Recruiters are on hand, and they have several positions to fill, including:A program manager for InfoSec;A senior manager for Enterprise Security;A security architect for Adversarial Resilience; and A principal application software engineer for the Security Products Group.We're also giving away an iPad at 5 p.m., so come put your business card in the raffle
SOURCE Boston 2014: Proof Heartbleed is a Big Deal
Akamai CSO Andy Ellis wrote about how we're protecting customers from the much-publicized Heartbleed vulnerability OpenSSL fixed in an update Monday. At SOURCE Boston 2014, there's plenty of personal proof that this bug is a big deal. You could say it ruined the first day of the conference for some.
Heartbleed FAQ: Akamai Systems Patched
Update 2014-04-11: Updated information on our later analysis here. We're getting a lot of questions about the OpenSSL Heartbleed fix. What follows are the most commonly asked questions, with our answers. The Heartbleed bug affects a heartbeat functionality within the TLS/DTLS portion of the library. It allows the attacker to -- silently and without raising alarms -- dump portions of the servers memory to the client. This can allow the
Fix Released for Heartbleed OpenSSL Flaw
A fix is now available for a serious Open SSL flaw known as Heartbleed. The vulnerability, covered in CVE-2014-0160, affects OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f with two exceptions: OpenSSL 1.0.0 branch and 0.9.8.
SOURCE Boston 2014: Talk Descriptions
SOURCE Conference 2014 runs tomorrow through Thursday at the Marriott on Tremont Street, Boston. Akamai is a platinum sponsor of the event and we hope to see you there. To help attendees acclimate, we're sharing the following talk descriptions, which are also available on the conference website.
And Now, This Message on 'Booth Babes'
For years, I've despised the so-called booth-babe phenomenon, in which vendors hire women to stand at their booths in skimpy attire at conferences. I've focused on what I see at security events, but the problem is universal.If you want to know how I feel about it, read this Salted Hash write-up from a couple years ago. For the rest of this post, I direct your attention to this message from two
CERT-UK: The place to go (for security) in Great Bri ...
As of 31 March 2014, the UK officially has a governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) that is responsible for being the central point for communication between a variety of governmental and business within the confines of the UK, as well as beyond. While this is the 'birthday' of CERT-UK, the organization has already been working hard since November to create infrastructure and hiring personnel, this was simply an official
Akamai is a Platinum Sponsor of SOURCE Boston 2014
Akamai is a platinum sponsor of next week's SOURCE Boston conference, and we'll have an army of security staff on hand to answer questions, show people around and help with introductions.Full SOURCE Boston schedule