In the News: 2009

Philip Lieberman discusses current cyber security threats and the challenges to resolving them in his article "Building Legal Frameworks for CyberSecurity Change".

"Once a single computer is compromised, the intruders leapfrog from system to system, compromising highly sensitive privileged accounts throughout the organization until the infrastructure is mapped and its most valued information can be extracted quickly enough to render conventional safeguards powerless."

"Lieberman Software provides privileged ID management for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server."

"SharePoint Server makes extensive use of privileged accounts for its processes, and is an example of an enterprise service that could benefit from Lieberman Software's Enterprise Random Password Manager."

"Given the high value of the traffic on Wall Street and One WTC [World Trade Center], pager interception complexity and physical proximity are not a problem for someone looking to get a leg up on the financial system," Lieberman said.

"User Manager Pro helps organizations in all major vertical markets locate and remove rogue users, groups, and group memberships, change administrator passwords, discover and remove unauthorized shares, determine who is in the administrator group, find stale user accounts and, with Cratering, mediate virus infections – including zero-day infections that bypass conventional antivirus solutions."

"Even the DBA can make a difference in terms of whether they're utilizing best practices in setting access controls," says Philip Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, an account and password management firm. "The DBAs are really the core of this because they're really the protectors of the database."

Security mavens like the idea of going deep into the anatomy of an application rather than just relying on antivirus software or operating system security functions. For instance, Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, called EMET "a good value-add for Microsoft ISVs [independent software vendors]."

"The other major announcement was from Lieberman Software, which unveiled a privileged identity management solution for the Oracle Ecosystem."

"Lieberman Software has integrated its privileged identity management solution, Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM), with Oracle."

"For example, Lieberman notes, many organizations leave themselves at risk when they fail to encrypt database backup tapes. The data may be secure on the server, but if someone with ill intent gets hold of the unencrypted tape, then it will be compromised all the same."

"Philip Lieberman will give a breakout session on How to Protect Your Government Agency with Backend IT Controls"

"The London-based University of Westminster has chosen a utility from Lieberman Software to manage privileged user accounts."

"In my experience, Microsoft tends to react proportionately to the amount of ink given to an issue brought up by vendors or the press," Lieberman said. "Real or fictitious threats all get a hearing and a response."

"Remote wipe capabilities are another helpful solution for devices frequently traveling beyond the confines of the organization, notes Philip Lieberman, CEO and president of Lieberman Software, a company providing enterprise solutions for security and systems management."

"Phil Lieberman from Lieberman Software provides some advice on avoiding scareware including fighting the temptation to downgrade to XP."

SC Magazine Awards Enterprise Random Password Manager 5 out of 5 stars in product review.

"Philip Lieberman, president and CEO of Lieberman Software, says PCI DSS is a good idea that has improved the overall security of credit card payment handlers, but it has some serious flaws."

"The job of a privileged password management technology is to inventory all systems, accounts, passwords and where they are used."

Founder and President of Lieberman Software, Philip Lieberman, will speak at Government IT Conference in October.

"The unauthorized extraction of information is epidemic and essentially unstoppable," says Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, which makes password security systems.

"Lieberman Software has gained Windows 7 compatibility on its privileged identity management and security management software."

"Lieberman Software Announces New Version of Privileged Account Management Solution."

"Identity and access management vendors to watch."

"First, the always fascinating Phil Lieberman (founder and CEO of Lieberman Software) weighed in on our recent discussions. My position has been that in theory IDaaS makes sense. [But] I believe that the IDaaS model breaks down in many areas."

"The fundamental flaw with this practice is the serious security implications and regulatory compliance violations that occur if the local password on even one system is compromised."

"Version 5.0 of the Enterprise Reset Console offers increased protection for sensitive user account passwords and enhanced enterprise performance and scalability."

"Lieberman Software’s has announced Account Reset Console 5.0, offering increased protection for sensitive user account passwords and enhanced enterprise performance and scalability."

"Lieberman Software President and CEO Phil Lieberman thought that Microsoft's product pipeline would soon be delivering a large number of significant product upgrades, and that the show sessions did a good job of preparing attendees for the upcoming product upgrade cycles."

"But not everyone was satisfied with the report. Phil Lieberman, of Lieberman Software, criticized what he called its punitive tone. “They’re suggesting in this paper that if you don’t have good security, that you’ll be punished for it. The problem is that this is an evolving threat,” he said. “They seem to be waving the stick around a lot without having any serious carrots."

"Phil Lieberman, CEO,  Lieberman Software:  There needs to a be a bright line of reasonable care for enterprises as well as incentives to implement strengthened cyber security."

"The report also introduces a number of new cybersecurity concepts -- for example, a legal standard of care. Such a standard would give organizations a clear sense of what is expected of them at the commercial level, Philip Lieberman, president and CEO of Lieberman Software, told TechNewsWorld."

"Phil Lieberman, of Lieberman Software, has an interesting take on the topic...The bottom line he said, too many people, have too much access, to too many systems, for too long…"

"Enterprise Random Password Manager and Random Password Manager feed events to Systems Center based on password change, password verification, and password check-in/check-out job results."

"Lieberman Software products integrate seamlessly with System Center Operations Manager to alert administrators to what users and the Help Desk are doing with privileged accounts from a single console."

"As a result, Lieberman stresses the need for financial data centers to be both vigilant and paranoid about internal and external threats, because the assumption always exists that their infrastructures have been—or will soon be—compromised."

"Magix integration has signed an agreement with US-based Lieberman Software to distribute and support its Random Password Manager solution for enterprise and SME companies..."

"Security vendor Lieberman Software also posted a survey of IT and security pros that indicates 60.7 percent of respondents work at organizations that have reduced their IT budgets in 2009. Some 40 percent of the respondents have reduced staff since January, the report states."

Enterprise Random Password Manager Wins Tomorrow's Technology Today Award for Privileged Account Password Management.

"Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software and a vocal critic of government efforts to put forth a far-reaching and comprehensive IT security standard, points to the recent hacks of power grids as endemic of a larger problem."

"Among the most secure password systems are those that use the principles of least privilege and need to know, which limit the user’s ability to access resources to only that which is necessary to do the job at hand, said Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software Corp."

"While all privileged account managers can scan a network or Windows domain looking for systems to manage, Lieberman Software's Enterprise Random Password Manager extends its discovery of passwords to manage beyond typical operating system accounts."

"Why is security given short shrift at some enterprises? Philip Lieberman, founder of Lieberman Software (a security management vendor), says a big reason is the enterprise’s culture, starting at the top."

"Hysteria is a good description of the situation," said Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software. "The Conficker April first date is more like a feeding frenzy for the anti-virus vendors akin to Black Friday for retailers or the week before Super Bowl Sunday for electronics retailers selling big screen TVs."

"Commenting on the proceedings, security software veteran Phil Lieberman, founder and CEO of Lieberman Software, said it is clear that the President is the ultimate "big hammer" when it comes to making government agencies cooperate and behave properly, but as with any CEO, he cannot be everywhere and needs clear policies that take care of the majority of situations that occur each day."

"Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, a Los Angeles-based security software maker, said the new administration faces a tough job balancing privacy and civil liberties issues with the real need to help secure the Internet, a major engine of the world's economic activity."

"[Lieberman] says there has been a complete void of any government policies laying out who has primary responsibilities for mitigating cyber threats against  the private and public sectors."

"[Enterprise Random Password Manager] adds zone processing for geographically dispersed environments, encrypted vaults and audit-compliance reporting."

"Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software in Los Angeles and a 30-year player in the cyber security field, praised Obama's decision to review the government's cyber security efforts."

"The move drew praise from the technology industry. Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, said that the United States has lacked a coordinated policy on cyberwarfare."

"Lieberman noted that this incident was the first time that Monster.com had publicly announced such a theft...He recommended that Monster.com implement compartmentalization of its critical and not-so-critical information assets."

"Lieberman explained that newer operating systems were more secure by design, but the majority of home users and SMB organizations were incapable of managing even the most basic security aspects of their PC's."