Greg Young

See the analysis in the Gartner First Take here regarding the network security impacts.  We also have a separate First Take on the Secure Web Gateway aspects of the events here.
Anyone who says that there will be a new buying center created from the convergence of host security and network security has to put a nickel [...]

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If you work in IT security and haven’t read Franz Kafka’s The Trial, you need to.  One of the themes from the novel is that when the rules are unclear, authorities have only as much authority as you give them.  This doesn’t make for good law or security.  Although life is full of gray areas, you should minimize them when [...]

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This morning at the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) I met with the Gartner analyst who is the research area lead for the Gartner Small and Midsize Businesses (SMB) vertical, Jim Browning.  We discussed the low success rate of enterprise IT vendors who try and move down-horizontal, and how few “get” SMB IT.  I always learn a lot from him, so I [...]

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Tap dancing is the mother of invention.  This morning at MES I delivered a new presentation “Network Security Best Practices for Midsize Enterprises”, for the first time.  Although I covered all the acronyms, I realized about halfway through that I was talking a lot about In The Cloud security and comparing it to MSSP services, but it needed [...]

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This week I am speaking at the Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) event at the Gaylord in Dallas.  This will be the 5th MES event for me, and they are a  research highlight of year.  The format is different than typical conferences: CIOs do not pay to attend but do both Gartner sessions and attend vendor [...]

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