Archives for December, 2010
by Neil MacDonald | December 23, 2010 | 5 Comments
Signature-based antimalware detection is increasingly ineffective against an explosion in the number of malware variants as well as an increase in the number of financially motivated targeted attacks. Does this mean we get rid of antivirus technology altogether? Not at all. What it means is that we can no longer protect endpoints using signature-based mechanisms [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Windows 7 Tags: Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Reducing Cost, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | December 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
Survey after survey shows that the top issue that organizations have when considering the adoption of public cloud-based computing services is “security and privacy”. Gartner’s own surveys show this: The survey data above is from December 2009, we’ll be publishing the December 2010 survey data for clients over the next several weeks. You all have [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Vendor Contracts Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Information Security
by Neil MacDonald | December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
I attended a breakfast presentation this morning given by Schneider Electric on the topic of facilities and energy intelligence. Essentially, they are tearing down the monitoring silos of energy, fire, lighting, data center power, HVAC and physical security monitoring to deliver a unified dashboard for facilities and energy management. As I listened to the presentation, [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Data Center Security Intelligence Tags: GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure
by Neil MacDonald | December 6, 2010 | Comments Off
I saw that Juniper had acquired Altor Networks in this announcement. I had written up Altor Networks as a Gartner “Cool Vendor” earlier this year in this research note for clients. In this research note, I observed: Because Altor’s offerings were created from the beginning for use in a virtual environment, they also directly integrate with [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | December 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’ve just completed work with a team of analysts on a Gartner Research Spotlight focused on private cloud computing. Whether your like or hate the term “private cloud”, the trend is real. These are the types of questions you are asking us: How can we make our own enterprise data centers act more like what [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | December 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
As organizations virtualize their data centers, information security has had to evolve to support this. The same will be true as data centers evolve to private clouds – security must evolve to support the needs of private cloud infrastructure. For most organizations, virtualization will provide the foundation and the stepping stone for the evolution to [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, VMware
