Greg Young

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.

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

Main concourse between sessions. 

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

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.