by Greg Young | June 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Today I tried a new format of presentation panel – entitled “Analyst Invitational: Network Security Vendors on the Hot Seat”. First, I’d like to thank my three guests. Each represented themselves and their companies well. It was a very contentious, intelligent and fast-paced discussion, and the feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive. I tried [...]
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by Greg Young | June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m looking forward to our 16th Gartner Security Summit next week. Here is a quick list of the sessions and events I am presenting: Sunday 7:30pmTweet & GreetHotel Sports Bar Monday 2:30pmAnalyst Invitational: Network Security Vendors on the Hot SeatPotomac Ballroom C Monday 5:40pm (Rapidfire session)New Black Boxes Potomac Ballroom 1 Wednesday 8:30am (pre-registration required)Top [...]
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by Greg Young | June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
The 2nd annual informal Tweet & Greet at the Gartner Security Summit will be on Sunday, June 20th at 7:30 pm at the sports bar on the ground floor of the Gaylord National Hotel. Hashtag will be #GartnerSecurity and my Twitter handle is @GartnerGreg I’ll be inviting my analyst colleagues and look forward to seeing [...]
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by Greg Young | May 25, 2010 | Comments Off
Gartner has an Event Note on titled “Symantec Faces Serious Challenges With VeriSign Security Buy“, and a companion note for our Gartner Invest customers from colleague John Rizzuto. The research note document summary is “Symantec plans to acquire the key components of VeriSign’s identity business. Both market dynamics and the lack of synergy suggest that [...]
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by Greg Young | March 12, 2010 | Comments Off
There was an internal discussion thread in our InfoSec research community on the news of an alleged insider-attempted breach here, and the practices of ‘walking the employee to the door’. However the bigger story for me here is the over-reliance people in these processes: · If physical presence is the safeguard you were doomed when [...]
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by Greg Young | March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
Guest blog by Peter Firstbrook While doing the research for our forthcoming secure email gateway Magic Quadrant, we are very disappointed with how few anti-spam solutions have reports that show the false positive (legit email tagged as spam) and false negative (spam that get to the inbox) rates. While there is no perfect way to [...]
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by Greg Young | February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
This topic could be a blog unto itself. I liked the comment from Steve L. about ‘experts’. I’ll end my 3 part series today with a pragmatic one: opaque proposals. I see hundreds of these each year from our Gartner customers. One line proposals with nothing more than a part numbers and a 6 or [...]
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by Greg Young | January 31, 2010 | 4 Comments
Thank you for the comments and emails for the least post. Here is the second, the Chameleon. I see a lot of this worst practice from security companies with products that are in the “climbing the slope” of enlightenment phase of the hype cycle, who miss the buzz of those products that are new and [...]
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by Greg Young | January 29, 2010 | 6 Comments
I was invited to give a keynote at a vendor’s sales kickoff last week. This was kind of brave of them considering Gartner doesn’t allow for any real censorship or vetoing of the presentation. One section I included was the Worst and Best sales practices I see in security from our interaction with our customers. [...]
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by Greg Young | December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments
Every Gartner analyst has a list of ‘Notes I Want To Write’ sitting under a pile of vendor marketing material somewhere on or near his or her desk. The list grows by 5 or more entries for every one that actually gets published, so, even when you take into account that most those ideas are [...]
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