by Greg Young | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
The hack of candidate Sarah Palin’s personal web-mail account was reported here and blogged by a colleague here. Why was the email account was so important? The attackers likely read this and knew a Yahoo email account was being used for conducting business (including the email address). Easy to attack, and it potentially contained high valued assets. Blood in [...]
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by Greg Young | September 17, 2008 | Comments Off
When driving a motorcycle slowly and wanting to go left, you turn the handlebars to the left. When going fast and wanting to turn left very quickly, you turn the handlebars to the right. What? Huh? The magic of counter-steering. If you haven’t obtained permission from your spouse/significant-other/your-inner-cool-self to get a motorcycle, it works on a bicycle too (but [...]
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by Greg Young | September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments
This morning at the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) I met with the Gartner analyst who is the research area lead for the Gartner Small and Midsize Businesses (SMB) vertical, Jim Browning. We discussed the low success rate of enterprise IT vendors who try and move down-horizontal, and how few “get” SMB IT. I always learn a lot from him, so I [...]
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by Greg Young | September 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Tap dancing is the mother of invention. This morning at MES I delivered a new presentation “Network Security Best Practices for Midsize Enterprises”, for the first time. Although I covered all the acronyms, I realized about halfway through that I was talking a lot about In The Cloud security and comparing it to MSSP services, but it needed [...]
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by Greg Young | September 14, 2008 | Comments Off
This year it was my turn to lead the update to the Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection. (HCIP to make your reading easier). There are 3 HCs underway in security right now: HC for Data and Application led by analyst Jay Heiser, the HCIP, and an ‘umbrella’ HC for Information Security led by Managing VP Ray [...]
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by Greg Young | September 13, 2008 | Comments Off
This week I am speaking at the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) event at the Gaylord in Dallas. This will be the 5th MES event for me, and they are a research highlight of year. The format is different than typical conferences: CIOs do not pay to attend but do both Gartner sessions and attend vendor [...]
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