by John Pescatore | April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
I blogged here about what since 2003 Gartner has been calling the Next Generation Firewall, and then Greg Young and I published a Gartner research note “Defining the Next Generation Firewall.” Simplifying a bit, the winners in the firewall market will be those who have added application identification and policy enforcement and deep packet inspection [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 29, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I spent most of last week at the Gartner Mobile and Wireless conference. It’s always illuminating to work at a Gartner conference that is not a security conference – it is sort of like “immersion learning” where you spend a week in Spain only speaking Spanish. Or listening in when your wife hosts her book [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 28, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Yesterday was the birthday of Samuel Morse, inventor of the single-wire telegraph. That’s why Google’s logo looked dashy and dotty, by the way. May 24th will be the 167th anniversary of the famous “What Hath God Wrought” transmission from the Supreme Court in Washington DC to the Mount Clare rail station in Baltimore, MD. But, [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Another security impact of global outsourcing: less than $1 for CAPTCHA entry.
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by John Pescatore | April 26, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I read a lot of fiction but whenever I take fiction books out of the library, I always take out at least one non-fiction book. Right now I’m reading “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis, a sad tale of what caused the financial meltdown. Last week I read “Hulk Hogan: My [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 23, 2010 | Submit a Comment
So, let me get this straight: venture capital firms gave $11.2M to Blippy, whose value is that I can give my credit card number to Blippy and then Blippy can tell everyone exactly what I am buying and how much I paid. While you’re grokking that, it also turns out the Blippy (it is really [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 22, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Let’s say you are strolling through a state fair, holding your three year old by one hand and protecting your purse (or man-purse) with the other, and you decide to stop and play a game of Skee-Ball. You only have two arms and two eyes – you have to reduce your attention to, and control [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m here at Gartner Mobile/Wireless conference in San Diego. On Tuesday, of about 16 presentations by Gartner analysts (many others by user cases studies and vendor pitches) we had these four sessions: “Managing ‘Bring Your Own Computer to Work’ ” – Leslie Fiering “Securing Unsecurable People” – John Girard “Embracing Consumerization” – David Smith “How [...]
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by John Pescatore | April 20, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Reusable passwords will always be Kryptonite to any information security super powers.
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by John Pescatore | April 15, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’m a big baby about poison ivy – I hate it. When I’m doing yard work, I know I am going to come into physical contact with it (or poison oak) so I wear a certain set of clothes when I work in the yard and when I’m done I immediately throw them in the [...]
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