Articles by Jack Hamm

For National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) a colleague in the Gigamon Marketing group asked me to write a blog post about security awareness training. They were surprised at my response: “Dear…

Wow! What a fun time I had at RSA 2018 in San Francisco. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit it but this was my first RSA conference. I enjoyed meeting…

As mentioned in my last blog, the first step to solving the security tool selection problem is asking the right questions and taking inventory of exactly what you do. For…

Pop quiz! Which of these sounds familiar? My security tools create false positives. My security operations (SecOps) team is overwhelmed by a high volume of security alarms. I’m not sure…

With Gigamon GigaSMART® Application Session Filtering (ASF), we can leverage patterns in raw network traffic to detect machines communicating with Kaspersky. To do this, we’ll create a maprule that matches some regex we’ve…

The recent impact of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 17-01 requires Federal agencies to “take actions related to the use or presence of information security…