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Greg Young
Research VP
6 years at Gartner
22 years IT security

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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McAfee Announcement to Purchase Secure Computing

by Greg Young  |  September 29, 2008  |  1 Comment

See the analysis in the Gartner First Take here regarding the network security impacts.  We also have a separate First Take on the Secure Web Gateway aspects of the events here.

Anyone who says that there will be a new buying center created from the convergence of host security and network security has to put a nickel in the silly jar.

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  • 1 Stiennon   October 1, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    You have to admit that McAfee is the only one so far to pull off both a host and a network security strategy. I think they do it with twice the sales staff. Is that true?

    -RS