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July 14, 2009
McAfee.com
SignaCert added to McAfee Security Innovation Alliance Program
The McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance™ (SIA) is a technology partnering program that accelerates the development of interoperable security products and simplifies the integration of those products within complex customer environments.
June 3, 2009
SignaCert Webinars
SignaCert to Sponsor Seminar Series on Whitelisting Methods
SignaCert along with its partners have established a schedule of seminars and briefing events to discuss the evolution and practice of whitelisting technologies, methods and uses cases.
May 19, 2009
Secure IT Live
Whitelisting and End-to-End Trust
SignaCert Founder, CEO, and President Wyatt Starnes discusses whitelisting and end-to-end trust on the Secure IT Live podcast.
April 24, 2009
Portland Business Journal
Microsoft deal boosts SignaCert's next-generation technology
"SignaCert has spent its four-year existence pushing for industry acceptance of its next-generation computer security technology. On Tuesday, the Portland company got what it wanted, announcing a new partnership with global software behemoth Microsoft Corp."
April 20, 2009
Business Week
"Security in a Web 2.0+ World"
SignaCert partner Alcatel-Lucent announced the publishing of a new book entitled, "Security in a Web 2.0+ World", in which SignaCert was a contributor.
April 11, 2009
Gartner Blogs
Gartner Discusses Whitelisting
Distinguished analyst and Gartner Fellow Neil MacDonald discusses the need for whitelisting-based solutions.
March 19, 2009
U.S. Senate
SignaCert Advisor Dr. Eugene Spafford testifies at the U.S. Senate's Hearing on Cyber Security
"The current view that security can be had by adding on something afterwards or by applying patches to problems simply won't work." :: Video testimony (starts at approximately :46)
March 9, 2009
Vnunet
Bolt-on security no longer fit for purpose
Existing security models are rapidly becoming obsolete, and need to form a much greater part of the development cycle ...
March 6, 2009
Techworld
Security needs to be 'baked in' say experts
A panel of security experts agreed that security needs to thought of a lot earlier in the software development lifecycle, and that the IT industry needs to start shipping 'hardened' products, especially with the advent of the cloud and virtualization making the location of sensitive data even more difficult to locate.
March 5, 2009
ZDNet Asia
Security: A brand owner's responsibility
Businesses need to take responsibility for the security of a product or service, and that intrinsic safety has to be built in, not included as an afterthought, said experts at the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Forum.
September 25, 2008
Security Keynotes 2008
Security Keynotes 2008
CEO Wyatt Starnes spoke at Security Keynotes 2008 - An audience with Information Security's Most Influential Thinkers.
May 28, 2008
ZDNet Australia
Is Whitelisting the New Blacklisting?
The IT security industry has come to a frank realization that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the answer?
May 21, 2008
ZDNet Australia
Antivirus is 'completely wasted money': Cisco CSO
Companies are wasting money on security processes - such as applying patches and using antivirus software - which just don't work, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart.
May 12-16, 2008
Japan Security Expo
Keynote: "IT in Transition: The Positive Trust Model and Whitelists"
CEO Wyatt Starnes was a keynote speaker at Japan's largest information security expo and conference.
February 14, 2008
Network World
7 virtual management companies to watch
SignaCert can ensure virtual systems are deployed as intended down to a binary level, even as system configurations are changing because of patching and updates. Since there is no configuration drift, a lot of the performance, compliance and security issues are minimized.
January 28, 2008
InfoWorld
Control user installs of software
Learn how to verify the status of applications and data without wresting all control over what users put on their hard drives ... SignaCert excels at scanning computers to find known and unknown programs, and it's in possibly the best position to contribute to (or lead) the greater vision.
January 25, 2008
Government Computer News
NIST to release SCAP FDCC scanner list
On February 1st the National Institute of Standards and Technology will release a list of validated scanners that check for Federal Desktop Core Configuration compliance. The scanners all use the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to automatically scan desktop computers and return the results ... a few vendors have released their own SCAP FDCC-based scanners, such as SignaCert.
October 13, 2008
Secure IT Live
Secure IT Live Podcast: Interview with Wyatt Starnes
SignaCert CEO Wyatt Starnes Interviewed on Secure IT Live about the myth of ROI in IT security sell, re-examining classic risk surfaces, and discussing the importance of the emerging positive IT security model.
January 7, 2008
Information Week
IT Best Practices, Good For Small Business Too
Industry analysis groups are starting to recommend the IT Infrastructure Library for mid-market organizations with small staffs and even smaller budgets.
December 26, 2007
Government Computer News
SignaCert to Verify FDCC Compliance
SignaCert has announced its active support for the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) and Security Configuration Automation Protocol (SCAP), which aim to improve desktop computer security for federal agencies. Using software measurement methods, SignaCert solutions prove that federal systems are FDCC compliant to the binary level ...
October 8, 2007
Information Week
Company Locks In Code, Locks Out Problems
SignaCert ensures that software stays in authorized state, helping with compliance, security, outages, and other problems.
September 3, 2007
InfoWorld
SignaCert Appliance Sorts Good From Bad
SignaCert's Enterprise Trust Server maintains legitimate system consistency and detects malware modifications.
August 28, 2007
ITworld
Trusting Systems: SignaCert, Aims to Automate Software Trust, Audit Trails, and Best Practices
A leading vendor in this new space, SignaCert, aims to automate software trust, audit trails, and best practices to enable more companies to reap the benefits of management automation reliability.
July 6, 2007
InfoWorld
SignaCert Helps Build the Secure Ecosystem
SignaCert has been collecting the digital signatures of tens of millions of executables. These file hashes are placed into a Web-accessible global repository, and administrators can add their own in-house application metadata and file signatures.
June 7, 2007
IT-Director
Industry Analyst Robin Bloor on SignaCert
As the inadequacies of traditional antivirus technology become increasingly apparent, the whitelist approach is emerging as a far more effective approach to IT security management. In his blog, Robin Bloor evaluates "The Slow Death of AV Technology" and summarizes the potential advantages of the whitelist approach.
May 10, 2007
CIO Update
IT: An Industry in Transition
As with any industry, as IT matures it changes. But, as with few industries in the past, those changes affect everything, writes CIO Update guest columnist Wyatt Starnes of SignaCert.
April 25, 2007
Network World
New Approaches to Malware Detection Coming Into View
The traditional signature-based method to detect viruses and other malware is increasingly seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at which attackers are churning out virus and spyware variants. All of which raises the question: What's next?
April 9, 2007
Computerworld
Don't Let Vista Deployment ...
... drive you nuts. That might be tough, given that Gartner Inc. estimates that half of the PCs in companies today can't run Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system.
April 4, 2007
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
SignaCert Congratulates Advisory Board Member, Dr. Eugene Spafford
SignaCert lead advisor Dr. Eugene Spafford honored with Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) President's Award for "Leading Proponent of Computer Security, Ethics, and Safety."
March 26, 2007
BCN
SignaCert Opens Japan Office
SignaCert Japan branch office opened
March 7, 2007
Software Association of Oregon
SignaCert Profile: Coming Out of Stealth Mode
Founded by Wyatt Starnes in 2004, SignaCert delivers software and subscription services that provide 100% enterprise-wide integrity verification.
February 20, 2007
CERIAS Weblogs
Stuck in a Rut - Still
... A few companies had more novel solution - I was particularly impressed by a few that I saw, such as the policy and measurement-based offerings by CoreTrace, ProofSpace, and SignaCert.
February 11, 2007
Daily Channel News
Microsoft to Demo NAP Technology With Partners
Microsoft Corp. says it now has more than 100 networking and security partners that will support and integrate their technologies with the vendor's new policy enforcement platform, Network Access Protection (NAP).
February 8, 2007
Blog post
In Security: RSA Highlights
Companies to watch? ... SignaCert could be interesting - their approach to enabling trusted computing is elegant and timely.
February 2, 2007
TMC.net
SignaCert Launches Enterprise Trust Services
The innovation drive is so fast sometimes that the enhanced version of a product comes into the market even before its predecessor has made a global tour.
January 31, 2007
TMC.net
SignaCert Offers Integrative Verification Tool in Enterprise Trust Services
Information reliability, integrity and security are of high priority for every organization that relies on a network to manage its information and communication processes. To meet this growing demand, SignaCert has introduced Enterprise Trust Services.
