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Greg Young
Research VP
6 years at Gartner
22 years IT security

Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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Good Names For Good, Bad Names for Bad

by Greg Young  |  February 7, 2009  |  Comments Off

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 safeguard CareBear, and the next worm Exoblastomosis Extremsis Vindicatus (even the acronym EEV sounds painful).

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