Greg Young

First, I would like to thank my colleague John Pescatore for managing to get that dang Willy Nelson song stuck in my head from over 1000 miles away here . 
I’ve also been on the road (arg!  there’s that song again!) extensively this month between New York, Canada, Texas and California.  I’m in San Jose [...]

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Accessible to Gartner customers, I just published “Q&A: Best Practice for the Reporting Line of Firewall Administrators” to address a cluster of recent client inquiries on this topic.
Blogging about research notes has two goals: informing customers what is new and giving non-customers some insight into what kinds of research we publish.  For those few notes [...]

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There is no need to suspend belief in business fundamentals, as IT security is still a cost center.  No amount of voodoo-economic-spin-FUD calculations on avoiding opportunity losses or enabling business to otherwise proceed make sense. 
IT security is a cost.  Costs are required to make profit, but they aren’t profit (unless you are a security [...]

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My long-time colleague and friend Eugen Bacic sent me this link to a MindHack article titled "If It’s Difficult to Pronounce, It Must Be Risky".  Eugen’s take on this naming is that we should be giving security safeguards nicer names and some really nasty-sounding ones to malware.  I say we call the next new network [...]

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In looking at the number of dots along the most recent Gartner Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection, or seeing how full your own network racks are, enterprises don’t want for for new safeguards.  There will always be new safeguards to meet new threats, however the next wave of security innovation for the enterprise will be [...]

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In this post I introduced the network security team at Gartner.  I promised in response to one of the comments to that post I would do a Who Is Who on Identity and Access Management (IAM) coverage, so here we go.  This is not the full coverage and will be out of date in one [...]

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