Greg Young

Worms are back.  Reports that the Downadup worm(s) have infected something around 3.5 million PCs in a short amount of time are not surprising.  Threats will continue looking for the weakest link, and bots will be evasive and try more than one method to get onto endpoints.
And once we plug the wormholes, back we go [...]

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We just completed our start of year Gartner research offsite.  In addition to my primary commitments to continue researching network firewalls and IPS, two areas I am going to putting increased emphasis on this year are the web application firewall, and firewall policy management markets.
As we wrote in the 2008 Network Firewall Magic Quadrant, firewall [...]

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I enjoyed Jennifer Leggio’s post on the ebbs and flows of favoring a social media type.
I’ve been a social networking curmudgeon.  I don’t really Facebook, I am not all aTwitter, and I am unLinkedIn.  I see the value in these, it is just that it is pretty much my full time job to be connected [...]

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My inside baseball post this week is introducing who covers what in Network Security within the Infrastructure Protection team here at Gartner.  Coverage, like the security market, is fairly dynamic, and I have probably only included about half of what they cover, but here is a rough sketch, along with a tidbit about what they [...]

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