by Greg Young | May 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Gartner’s annual big security event is being held 28 June-1 July 2009 near Washington, DC. This event about enterprise security professionals having access to analysts and their unbiased research, and there is access to security vendors through a showfloor and solution sessions. At least that is what my take on it is after having been [...]
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by Greg Young | May 25, 2009 | Comments Off
The Gartner security analyst teams track a lot of companies - hundreds and hundreds of security companies. I track about 65 network firewall and related product companies alone (some I have heard from only once, other I get several inquiries about each day). For a while I was getting emails with subject lines of "YAWAF" [...]
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by Greg Young | May 21, 2009 | 13 Comments
The Gartner Senior Research Board gave me approval to research a Magic Quadrant on Web Application Firewalls (WAF). The publishing target is Q4. The WAF market wasn’t ready for a MQ or MarketScope last year. I published a research note "Introduction to Web Application Firewalls", whose title is a bit of an exonym as it [...]
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by Greg Young | May 19, 2009 | Comments Off
The Financial Post detailed the $1M fine paid by a Celestica outsourcing strategist for surreptitiously reading employees’ emails, including those of senior management. The less jaded would say wow – a great fine and a win against doers of tomfoolery with the computers. But no! The former employee was only fined because he traded on [...]
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by Greg Young | May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
The CBC radio program Q hosted scholar of the con Ricky Jay (podcast here). Ricky told a great story about a guy who leaves his dog with a bartender for a few minutes. Another guy comes in and raves about the dog claiming it is a rare breed and would pay $600 for it and [...]
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by Greg Young | May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
I enjoyed Brian Krebs’ article "Oprah, KFC, and the Great PC Cleanup". OK – the emperor has no clothes: it is self-evidently wrong that there are so many unprotected PCs on our Internet. Even unsophisticated malware has a bountiful harvest of unpatched and unprotected PCs. I like Brian’s suggestion about Oprah viewers, but I think [...]
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by Greg Young | May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment
After two weeks away on vacation, here is what I didn’t miss hearing about: Cloud security Grasping, tenuous links between some vendors’ IT security products and Swine Flu Cloud security Those ‘special’ RSA Conference press releases with exclamation marks and inappropriate capitalization Cloud security
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