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)]
Entries from December 2008
Check Point Announces Nokia Buy
December 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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The 2009 Security Prediction Prediction List
December 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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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Calling The Disclaimer Bluff
December 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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ITSec Non-Hypocritical Oath
December 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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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Keeping Perspective: Business Card Phishing
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
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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Inbox Blackbox
December 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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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Photos from London Gartner Security Summit
December 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
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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