Forrester analysts Heidi Shey and John Kindervag recently released a Strategy Deep Dive report focused on a topic that is near and dear to us here at TITUS – Defining Your Data. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Office 2013 has been available to corporate customers for about 4 months, and it was released to the public in February of this year. Office 2013 is available via its traditional packaging, and is now also available via the Office 365 subscriptions. The Office 365 subscription allows customers to stream the Office 2013 install to their desktop. In either case there are a number of major changes to Office in this release.
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March has been a very busy month for US export control reform. On March 8, President Obama signed a new Executive Order that updates delegated presidential authorities over the administration of certain export and import controls. The Administration also announced that it had notified Congress on March 7th about its proposed export control changes for aircraft and gas turbine engines. These changes are very important because they involve transferring certain parts and components from the ITAR-controlled United States Munitions List (USML) to the Commerce Control List (CCL). This transfer will lead to a more streamlined export control process, which will make it easier for companies to export items to US allies, helping to boost sales and increase US competitiveness.
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Organizations throughout the world have the need to comply with various regulations in order to ensure that their most sensitive information is protected. In Australia, for example, Australian government departments use TITUS classification solutions to meet the requirements of the Email Protective Marking Standard (EPMS). For a number of years, TITUS has also been assisting our UK government customers by helping them to comply with the Government Protective Marking Scheme (GPMS).
In the UK, government agencies and public sector organizations need to comply with Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) Security Policy Framework to protect their most important assets. In order to comply with this requirement, departments and agencies must adopt policies in accordance with the Government Protective Marking System, which is designed to help staff determine and indicate to others the levels of protection required to help prevent the compromise of information via protective markings to emails and documents.
Back in August, the TITUS marketing team sat in a meeting and brainstormed for the name of our first information security conference. With a list of names starting with every letter of the alphabet it was a very introspective exercise for our entire team. After multiple meetings and a few great debates, we came full circle and all agreed to the first conference name proposed…..FOUNDATIONS. Read the rest of this entry »
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
That just about sums up our feelings as we head into our third year as a Silver Sponsor of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Back in 2011…incredible debut for TITUS at the conference. 2012…wow, what an amazing week! 2013…only time will tell, but if the lead up to the show is any indication, we’re going to have a busy, fantastic, one-of-a-kind week in San Francisco!! Read the rest of this entry »
It’s no secret. I dress up at work. It is not required at my workplace, nor is it necessarily the culture. It’s a personal choice. I think it provides benefits for my work life, as well as my home life. How does dressing up at work help in my personal life? And what does this have to do with mobile email security? Good questions.
We all know mobile devices are everywhere. We all see the stats. We all have one. Most of us use our mobile devices for both personal and business endeavors. For employees and managers alike, mobile computing is a welcome trend. They can check their email and conduct other business in any location. If they can combine work and personal information on their device, they only require a single device for all their needs. This causes a serious security problem, especially for the most used app on any mobile device: email. Today’s smartphones make it difficult to draw the line between personal and business email, as both business and personal email (and their attachments) tend to live all in the same place, and without separation. This is where the problem of protecting business information, all mixed together with personal information becomes very difficult. With more and more users mixing business and personal data on their mobile devices, the risk of a data leak occurring from email increases significantly because:
What is the answer to mitigating this biggest mobile risk of email? Dress up at work.
I will save you the time, the report from the Public Interest Declassification Board will not tell you if we have made alien contact, but, it does make recommendations on the use of Classification, how and why Declassification is important and that Technology will facilitate both.
It is important to remember that we live in an age of instant information and communications. Unable to remember who the first Archivist of the United States was? Just Google it! Why should I not be able to do the same for any Governmental document? The answer is simple. You may not have a need to know, the information is still classified, or it is stuck in the approximately 400 Million back log to be reviewed for declassification. This report outlines ways to address your right to know, the fact that it is still classified (possibly unnecessarily over classified) and how to remove that 400 Million back log. Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday we gave a joint presentation with McAfee and NATO called “NATO and TITUS – Intelligent Data Loss Prevention with Endpoint Classification”. There was a great turnout for the presentation with a full house of about 200 people in the room. John Tatman, Principal IA Engineer, NATO talked about how the joint TITUS McAfee solution is helping NATO protect its information. Also discussed was how the TITUS products now plug seamlessly into the McAfee EPO management environment. EPO can be used to deploy the TITUS classification tools, and can also be used to log and report on classification events within the enterprise. This combined TITUS McAfee reporting solution can give you an idea of how classification is being used within the enterprise, as well as policy violations such as trying to downgrade classifications, or send sensitive information outside the organization. For more information on this solution see our press release at http://www.titus.com/press/2012/NATO_TITUS_McAfee_Release.php
In their keynote this morning, McAfee talked about what they will be enabling in EPO V5. They demonstrated the concept of real time EPO in EPO 5.0. This real time concept allows administrators to query, in near natural language, what is happening in their environment. The answers don’t come from a compiled database of information, but rather from information collected in real time. One of the example queries was “Show me all running applications on my system”. This query can report on any rogue or unsupported applications being run in the system. Once you have this real-time information, you can use it to do real time risk mitigation. In the above example you could remove or prevent the non-approved applications.
Back to the sessions. Signing off for now.
They were one of our first customers. Their requirements are one of the reasons that TITUS began developing email classification security software. From our relationship with them, a better classification product was born.
