A couple of years back, I remember working at a tradeshow booth and giving a demo to someone who was interested in our solution. He said, “Your solution is great, but I need something that will not let anyone from the outside in my network and I need something that will not let my employees do anything on the Internet.” I asked, “You don’t want your employees doing anything on the Web?” He replied, “Correct. If they want to do something on the Web, they can do it on their own time and on their own systems.” Hmmm. My tongue-in-cheek response? “Turn off your Internet connection.” I get it…no one wants to have to deal with cyber-attacks, especially in light of recent breaches like Equifax and Sonic Drive-In, and no one wants to deal with zero-day attacks either. Speaking of zero-days… Earlier this week, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) published a zero-day advisory for a bug in the EMC Data Protection Advisor. The team follows specific guidelines on this, so when the time comes where they
