by John Pescatore | November 10, 2008 | 4 Comments
Consumer buying behavior is influenced by all kinds of things – the features consumers value can be driven by style, by utility or simply by repetitive advertising. Business technology buying behavior isn’t all that different – except that business often create Requests for Proposals and have fairly formal evaluation criteria and processes for selecting the [...]
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by John Pescatore | November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
The San Francisco Chronicle published an Open Forum piece by Newt Gingrich proposing that Sarbanes Oxley get repealed as part of an economic stimulus package. I don’t think market crashes are very good times to suggest *less* regulation, but it would be nice to see SarBox get focused back on the actual original issue of making [...]
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by John Pescatore | November 6, 2008 | 9 Comments
A while back, Greg Young blogged on the variety of security threat meters out there. Most of those are based on the known vulnerabilities out there and the attacks being blocked by AV clients and intrusion prevention systems. But the real danger level is related to what isn’t getting blocked. Counting the raindrops your roof repels [...]
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by John Pescatore | November 5, 2008 | Submit a Comment
“Remember, remember the fifth of November, The gunpowder, treason and plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.” Not only is today finally the end of the US presidential election campaign, it is also the 403rd anniversary of the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the British [...]
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by John Pescatore | November 4, 2008 | Submit a Comment
E-books and E-voting show technology isn’t always better and can complicate security.
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by John Pescatore | November 3, 2008 | 5 Comments
