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Archives for January, 2009


Worms 2 and Open Source Credit Card Numbers

by Greg Young  |  January 22, 2009  |  Comments Off

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 [...]

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Research Priorities For 2009

by Greg Young  |  January 17, 2009  |  Comments Off

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, [...]

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Relinking In

by Greg Young  |  January 14, 2009  |  3 Comments

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 [...]

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Who’s Who In Network Security Coverage At Gartner

by Greg Young  |  January 12, 2009  |  5 Comments

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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