You Can't Script a Cyber War

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Internet security threats require an offensive approach

<a href="http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Security/You-Cant-Script-a-Cyberwar/?kc=BLBLBEMNL031108STR4"><img alt="Internet Security" hspace="10" src="http://www.solidcore.com/images/blog/InternetSecurity.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="0" /></a>I read this article today highlighting the problem of <a title="You cant script a cyberwar" href="http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Security/You-Cant-Script-a-Cyberwar/?kc=BLBLBEMNL031108STR4" target="_blank">predicting Internet security threats</a>.  The common practice today is to measure a system’s risk by evaluating how many current threats are possible and the likelihood of exposure. However a better way to look at this problem is to take an offensive approach.  You should consider everything running on the system as a possible threat and only allow the minimum (or required) executables and applications. <a title="Solidcore embedded homepage" href="http://www.solidcore.com/solutions/embedded.html" target="_blank">Solidcore</a>, as a Microsoft Embedded Systems Gold Partner, is able to provide IT systems with this level of protection against unauthorized applications and changes.  Solidcore and Tokyo Electron Device <a title="TED press release" href="http://www.solidcore.com/news_events/release83.html" target="_blank">announced a distribution agreement</a> yesterday giving manufacturers the ability to easily secure field deployed systems that will protect their businesses.   As Lawrence M. Walsh, editor of Baseline Magazine summarizes, <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">".... my advice is to adopt Adidas’ new slogan: ‘Impossible is nothing.’ Your adversaries already have this saying hanging over their PCs. If we fail to be open to the possibility of the impossible attack, we’ve already lost the war."</blockquote>by Kim Singletary, Embedded Solutions <a href="mailto:KSingletary@solidcore.com">KSingletary@solidcore.com</a> 9 application/xml false Internet security threats security threats You Can't Script a Cyber War Baseline Magazine, March 10, 2008 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Security/You-Cant-Script-a-Cyberwar/?kc=BLBLBEMNL031108STR4 Solidcore embedded solutions homepage Learn more about Solidcore embedded solutions http://www.solidcore.com/solutions/embedded.html Solidcore Inks Distribution Agreement with Tokyo Electron Device to Become de Facto Standard for Device Change Control March 10, 2008 Solidcore press release on TED distribution agreement http://www.solidcore.com/news_events/release83.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 erinswanson 208.106.105.128 false true false false true 183020 false false true false false false true 183011 blog blogsite/SolidCore/web