by John Pescatore | February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Gartner analyst Peter Firstbrook forwarded some publicity around Symantec’s security survey: Symantec Survey Finds 100% of Businesses Hit By A Cyber Loss in 2009 Yikes, I hope those poor companies weren’t spending any money on security products – they don’t seem to work very well! A suggestion for better security marketing, as opposed to general [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 25, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. Herbert Hoover (my other favorite HH quote is ‘About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.’) Matt Cain and I published a Gartner First Take on Microsoft’s announcement that its Business Process [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
Lawrence Orans and I are in the midst of developing the 2010 Network Access Control Magic Quadrant. It is interesting to see how the products have matured and how enterprise use of NAC has matured. Guest networking has become the dominant use case, but not just for allowing vendors or contractors on the network – [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
When data is stolen from the cloud, will anyone hear the noise?
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by John Pescatore | February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Let’s play a little game: on the table in front of you are three black boxes. I want you to give me your credit card number and I will put it into one of those boxes to keep it safe for you. The boxes are labeled, with some detail about what goes on inside: Box [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski recently gave a speech titled “Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity.” Basically, the FCC is preparing the National Broadband Plan to drive 100Mbs Internet service, promising it will lead to: “… U.S. global leadership in high-speed Internet to create jobs and economic growth; to unleash new waves [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
Imagine making important business decisions based on botnet supplied “Wisdom of Crowds”… Source for data: Websense here, usual disclaimer of security company provided statistics.
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by John Pescatore | February 15, 2010 | 9 Comments
I mentioned the predictable flap about Google violating users’ privacy expectations when they rolled out their Buzz social networking add-on. Imagine the outrage if the speed dial buttons on your cellphone were pre-populated with “friends” based on the stores your may have called on the phone or asked the directory services operator about. Imagine if [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Three feet of snow from two blizzards within one week gave me plenty of time to monitor how how the squirrel Intrusion Prevention System (SIPS) works on our bird feeder. Cost about as much as squirrel intrusion detection, but actually keeps the seeds safe – and can be used for detection, too… Valentines day is [...]
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by John Pescatore | February 10, 2010 | 8 Comments
Security folks often grimace when the business says “we need to use Skype for business reasons.” Here in the Washington DC area, snow has been falling constantly, and the local news organizations are having to fill hours of air time reporting on closed roads, downed trees, collapsed roofs and the like. I’ve noticed many of [...]
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