Corporate Security

Why Things Are Not SafeWhen people apply common sense to online security, it appears fairly obvious that things would be better if companies just bought the right security.  While that concept appears sound, the reality is completely different.Outside of the security...

The Real IoT Attack

What Is Going On?Recently a major website directory provider, Dyn, was taken offline twice in one day.  For many people, email, popular websites, and online convenience were disrupted.  While annoying, this attack certainly was not the end of the world or, so it...

Defining The Problem

Tiny Computers I recently gave a pitch focused on describing what Bear provides and how we could have prevented attacks such as the one on Dyn.  During the talk, I told people that cameras and DVRs were being used in these types of attacks and that blew peoples’...

Shining A Light

A Point Of View Bear has gone through a number of marketing efforts over the past few months while we tried to figure out a message that would resonate with enterprise customers.  We made a number of assumptions about the sophistication and capabilities of products...

The Cost Of Security

What Is Your Equation? Security is an immense, complex beast of a concept that is difficult to understand and impossible to quantify. That must drive CIO/CTO/Security folks nuts. At the end of the day, security has to be budgeted just like everything else and yet...