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Greg Young
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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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Day 2 of the 15th Annual Gartner Security Summit

by Greg Young  |  June 30, 2009  |  Comments Off

Day 2 is done and one day to go.  It actually is the third day if you count the Sunday afternoon tutorials as part of the event, but all true code-geeks start counting with with zero so it is still Day 2, or day 10 in binary, or …

I don’t have photos of the sessions, as I spent most of the day in one-on-one sessions with attendees.  In-person interaction is best.

I hosted an Analyst/User Roundtable (AUR) on firewalls and IPS.  The AURs are my favorite part of the event: it is like "group therapy" where firewall and IPS ops staff can talk about what challenges them, and can ask questions of the the others or the analyst.  It is a ‘vendor free’ zone to keep the interaction between end-users.  The discussion today was split between IPS and firewalls, with topics including the future of Check Point / Nokia IPSO, firewall rule change push windows, change control, and inline IPS strategies.  Epic AUR: thank you to the attendees.

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The CISO invitational program is part of the effort made to continue to keep the event primarily for security decision-makers and end-users.

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Main concourse between sessions. 

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Fresh air between sessions on the balcony off the main concourse.

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Self-explanatory.  Thank you to our Gartner customers and my colleagues.  I have to fly out tonight so I leave it to my colleagues to blog and tweet about Day 3.

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