by Greg Young | March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I have not met the departing Director of the US National Cyber Security Center, but this comment on his departure is not about him, but rather about how we shouldn’t be surprised when we establish perfect conditions for failure and then the wheels come off. Although technically the first in this titled position, previous ‘cyber [...]
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by Greg Young | March 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Back in November I wrote in this post about the changes in tech innovation in Ottawa, Canada, and how this innovation was more about responding to failure rather than success. The tech market in Ottawa has been turned over and shaken like an Etch-A-Sketch, and doing things the old way isn’t going to work. I [...]
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by Greg Young | March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
My colleague Neil MacDonald blogged about the convergence trends in end point protection platforms (EPPs) here as part of defense in depth. Host and network security have very different needs, and the convergence trends are different. Network security convergence is very different, as he states. Enterprise network security won’t be served by a single device. [...]
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by Greg Young | March 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’ve seen a marked increase lately in security vendors asking me "can we charge for that?" for incremental improvements or what is really a minor feature. The economy is surely a factor, and I don’t begrudge anyone charging for value, but let’s keep our heads here and not start charging boat owners for sea-air. The [...]
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by Greg Young | March 3, 2009 | Comments Off
The number of security bloggers from Gartner has grown. I’d like to welcome colleagues Neil MacDonald and Roberta Witty.
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by Greg Young | March 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Travel as an analyst is optimized: there is no sight seeing and a red eye flight is an effective time management tool. The highlight of my recent travel period was managing to catch up with an old colleague and one of my best friends. Before leaving San Francisco I managed to squeeze in dinner with [...]
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