When the marketing folks asked me if SecureWorks “needed” a blog, I hesitated. There are lots of good security sites out there for general news, we already have a good system in place for sharing information with our clients through our Security Operations Center, and our PR team does a fine job of getting information to the general public.

But, as I look at our network of clients and the vast amount of data available from our attack database, I realize that having a way to share new or unfinished ideas and respond to issues outside of our service coverage would be useful to us and (I think) useful to other security professionals and the general public. In fact, this even serves to do something I’ve already been charged to do inside the company - stir the pot.

We have some excellent resources to share. A team of security professionals and experts, ranging from operational analysts to researchers and developers. A group of professional consultants and risk experts with a broad background dealing with compliance and security issues in corporations. Finance, marketing and sales folks with insight into justifying and explaining security to just about any audience. Data on millions and millions of attacks. Visibility into thousands of security audits and assessments. And a network with live data to test and validate hypotheses.

This is only the beginning - we’ll have a lot of growing to do in terms of what information we feel comfortable sharing and what people might want from this site. But consider this the first step!

This entry was posted on Monday, May 15th, 2006 at 12:00 pm.

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