A new security startup co-founded by former HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund emerged from stealth today with a security-as-a-service based endpoint threat detection and incident response tool that operates without a software agent on the client machine.
No one who has seen it forgets the "Twilight Zone" episode about a town in Ohio that lives in terror of a 6-year-old born with godlike powers. One man who opposes the boy finds himself turned into a jack-in-a-box for thinking "bad thoughts." If the "hacktivist" collective known as Anonymous has something in common with a willful, dangerous child, then Aaron Barr is the adult who got in trouble for thinking bad thoughts.
