Decrypt Full Disk Encryption products for $299 – Well, it got cheaper at least
Many people have contacted my team and I over the last few days about the recent announcement by ElcomSoft, that they offer a tool to decrypt Bitlocker, PGP and Truecrypt volumes.
This $299 tool is advertised as getting you access to this encrypted data quickly and easily…
Now, this may sound exciting, but as they say, there’s always a catch – you need a memory dump from the machine from when it was authenticated to use this tool – yes, no recovery if you find a cold machine. You have to get access to it while it’s on and the user has logged in, then, after they switch it off, you can recover the data..
Sounds familiar? Well it should, it’s exactly the same idea Passware.com released to the world back in 2010 – I even blogged about it then… Read more…
The Connected Home – Introducing the McAfee Little Red Box
This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the Innovation roadshow.
It’s a prototype project that my team has been working on for some time now, and will go some way to answer the need to protect all the connected devices in your home.
My house is the classic connected home – I have the usual assortment of PCs and laptops that build up over the years, some relegated to the role of photo frame, others scattered around for occasional browsing and email use. There’s also the odd real photo frame (wirelessly connected to a media server of course), and on that topic, numerous Playstations, XBoxs, and other gaming consoles that my family enjoy.
If that wasn’t enough IP connected equipment, you can add into the mix more than one of every Apple device made – iPads, iPhones, Apple TV’s, even an Apple Mini, oh and a few Samsung internet connected TV’s as well.
I often jest that I have an internet-toaster, but I don’t. My wife thought about buying an internet-fridge, but the fact it didn’t support wireless put her off.
I must be forgetting something, as my router DNS server regularly gets maxed out – oh yes, I have Sonos throughout the house as well, and also a few Apple Airport Express wireless repeaters.
You don’t come to my place if you’re sensitive to EMF… Read more…
Speaking at Evanta CISO, Los Angeles on 14th May 2012
May 14, 2012 - Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza
Just a warning that I’ll be speaking at the CISO Summit on the 14th in LA – “Securing The Unsecurable” will be the topic. I look forward to seeing you there, and the usual rules apply – I’ll swap vanity short URLs on the http://mcaf.ee service for good jokes!
ISACA Orlando Event – thanks to those who attended…
The world’s leading audit conference for IT audit, security, governance and risk professionals
I just wanted to take a brief moment to thank all those who came and spoke to me after the ISACA presentation yesterday on “Securing The Unsecurable”. It’s great to hear that the direction I, McAfee, and our partner Accuvant are taking is indeed synergistic with our customers.
For those interesting, I uploaded a copy of the presentation to my companion site – CTOWild. You can find it under the title “2012-05 ISCAC.pdf” – You may be able to see it using this Direct Link.
Thanks again to the 100+ people who attended my session, and I hope you found it valuable and not too dull, even though I overran my time slot outrageously.
Simon.
Speaking at ASIS International Orlando, 20th September
For those in the Orlando area, you’ll find me presenting at ASIS International on the 20th – I’m talking about mobile security and consumerization, a topic close to most IT leaders hearts.
If you’re going to be there, please say hello, and of course my standing offer of a vanity http://mcaf.ee url in exchange for a good joke still holds.
Piggybacking WiFi at 60mph
I was in Madrid speaking at a conference a couple of months ago, and arriving after one of my favorite trans-Atlantic flights (you know the ones, where the ratio of screaming children to adults is not conducive to rest or even playing Angry Birds) I was excited to take one of the citi-cabs which have free wifi onboard to my hotel, a 45 minute journey away.
It was an interesting experience to say the least – though getting completely car-sick in the process, I managed to clear my inbox, answer a dozen questions on Community.mcafee.com, and also catch up with the news care of Google and the BBC. All in all, it was a most productive journey. Read more…
Who?
 | Simon Hunt is the VP and Chief Technology Officer for McAfee Endpoint Protection, and formally the CTO for SafeBoot International. Simon has been designing, implementing and speaking about data security since 1996. You can read my full Bio. |
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