by Greg Young | October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Mergers and acquisitions in the security market get a lot of attention, usually out of proportion to the impact of the event. Instead of navel-gazing on the ‘inside baseball’ of security M&As, the security of an M&A is more interesting to most enterprises. I get quite a few inquiries from our Gartner customers during the [...]
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by Greg Young | October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
The internet is proud to announce v89.7 of the Security Article Generator is now available. Security Article Generator is the leading provider of topical headlines for press releases, white papers and new articles for the computer security industry. Users enjoy the easy linking of a technology with a seemingly unrelated topical news or popular media [...]
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by Greg Young | October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments
Hi, my name is Greg and I really dig public radio (Hiiiiiiiiiii Greg). Due to my frequent travels I know the dial position for NPR in most major cities. In Canada, the national public broadcaster has a great weekly program on brand, marketing and advertising titled Age of Persuasion. Notwithstanding that computer security lends itself [...]
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by Greg Young | October 6, 2008 | Comments Off
This morning I saw about 10 NAC and SIEM vendors out under my car cutting the brake lines, so let’s level set. Some bits of security can be PnP, sure. If I have a branch office firewall and I add another one I can copy the policy.. well, that isn’t even PnP. ID-based network security [...]
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by Greg Young | October 6, 2008 | Comments Off
A friend and I were talking about the not-so-salad days before plug-and-play when attaching a mouse meant setting IRQ values, dip switches, and phoning 5 of your friends. Life is better now – you plug the thingie in and it works. The quest for PnP security has gone on just as long. Why can’t we [...]
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by Greg Young | October 4, 2008 | Comments Off
The Gartner First Take (FT) by John Pescatore, John Girard, Adam Hils and me on Nokia’s announced plan to sell their security appliance unit is here. There is also a second FT by Nick Jones, Leif-Olof Wallin, and Monica Basso on the non-security announcement of Nokia dropping their enterprise software business here. FTs are news [...]
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by Greg Young | October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
Getting your message across in the IT security is hard. IT is technical, and security is a cost center and usually gets in the way. The industry has tried analogies, FUD, video games, and even sometimes some farce with not good results. In the newer media, most of the web examples are not good (i.e. [...]
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