[Cialug] Home DLP, Anyone?

[Dave Hala]

Try approaching the problem from a different perspective, by asking
the question: What If do nothing? or What if I do the same thing as
everyone else?

(I'm *not* suggesting doing nothing.)

:) Dave

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:57 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> This email contains fever-induced, half-baked thoughts. Proceed with
> caution.
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/06/1343210/anti-virus-is-dead-but-still-makes-money-says-symantec(uh,
> I guess I'm obligated to say, "Slashdot sux" or something like that)
>
> The piece says "Meanwhile, other security firms including FireEye, RedSocks
> and Imperva are casting doubt on AV, suggesting a focus on data loss
> prevention might be better."
>
> I used to work at a DLP company.
>
> I came to view DLP is an interesting, but terribly ineffective thing.
> Rather, it's effective against terribly naive agents/hackers.
>
> What's the general consensus here on using DLP as a way to secure home and
> small business networks?
>
> Here's a weird way of looking at it long term:
> 1. Passive:  Door locks and windows are passive security. One time cost
> plus infrequent replacement.
> 2. Active:  Home firewall/DLP/whatever that actively burns Watt/hrs
> constantly which must be constantly updated against new threats
> 3? Aggressive:  Due to the rapidly increasing rate of change, in the future
> will we have to install things that actively, preemptively hunt down
> threats, or fund some company or agency that does that for us?
>
> If the internet ever gets fixed via to aggressive, knee-jerk overreactions,
> it might really, really suck.
>
> I probably need to step away from the keyboard for a bit
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