Greg Young

The Gartner First Take on the announcement by Check Point to buy the security appliance unit of Nokia is available publicly here.  [Try here instead (Thanks Rich Stiennon)]

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Threats and technology really doesn’t work on a calendar year, unless it is a threat specific to calendaring applications.   The analogy train basically stops at the station with the sign that says something like end of year lists are silly.  So here is a list of my predictions on what kinds of predicting at the [...]

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I got this in the signature line in an email I received from a local elected official:
No matter what corporate confidentiality disclaimer may appear below please feel free to share this message as you wish.

I don’t share the security DNA of the harrumphing he-harridans of haughtiness so I won’t be harrumphing.  Instead I commend this [...]

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I found it interesting that there are two Hippocratic Oaths: the original and a ‘modern’ one from 1964.  In this new version I was fascinated with "those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism".   This modern version reads much better.  Here is a take on it if we in ITsec were ‘professionals’ and took an [...]

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Perspective is often lost in ITsecurity by not keeping in mind the comparisons of the non-wired world.  An example (a good one that is) is in this post where John Pescatore gives a 12 word description on cyberterrorism.
This week in Toronto a widely reported and bizarre scenario allegedly took place, where it is alleged the [...]

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Off topic.
I, like my colleagues, get a lot of email and we have a mailbox size limit.  I either know when I have exceeded it (nag messages), or I have not (blessed silence).
Could I get a gas gauge for my Exchange inbox please?

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My UK-based colleague Jay Heiser was kind enough to provide me the link to his photos from the September Gartner IT Security Summit in London.
Here is a list of the upcoming Gartner security events for 2009.  The June event in Washington is our major summit:
London, UK | Identity and Access Management | 23-24 March | [...]

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