Archives for September, 2011
by Neil MacDonald | September 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’ve made it a point over the past 6 months to ask clients if they are combining their endpoint protection platform contracts across desktops, laptops and servers. In most cases (about 75%), the answer is yes – contracts are being combined in order to reduce complexity and costs. Is protecting a desktop different than a [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Reducing Complexity, Reducing Cost, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve been out the past two weeks visiting with clients and have been meaning to summarize my impression of the upcoming Windows 8 (expected mid 2012) from a security point of view. I attended Microsoft’s recent BUILD conference for developers where Windows 8 made its first official appearance. You can see my real-time tweets and [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Information Security Microsoft Security Windows 7 Tags: Apple, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Information Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Whitelisting, Windows
