Entries Tagged as 'Cloud Security'
by Neil MacDonald | August 29, 2012 | Comments Off
I’ve spent the last three days in Silicon Valley – some of it at VMworld and some of it with a client. With the flight out and back to the West Coast, I’ve had some time to do some thinking. Cleary, there’s a perception that hardware is commoditizing and that there’s little or no premium left in [...]
Category: Cloud Security General Technology Information Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Apple, Cloud Security, DC-Summit-NA, Reducing Complexity, Virtualization
by Neil MacDonald | May 25, 2012 | 4 Comments
One of the common misconceptions that I run into is that a public cloud services provider can’t have an on-premises element to their offering and that having this footprint somehow “breaks” the cloud model. The root of this misconception lies in equating cloud to a location. Cloud is a computing style, not a location. There [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Tags: Cloud Security, Virtual Appliances
by Neil MacDonald | May 21, 2012 | Comments Off
I’ve been absent from my typical blogging routine getting my material finalized for two Gartner upcoming US-based summits in June 2012. The first is Gartner’s Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit being held in Orlando the week of June 4th. This conference is focused on infrastructure and operations solutions for managing desktops, servers, and mobile devices [...]
Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Big Data and Information Security Cloud Security Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Application Security, application security testing tools, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization Security, VMsafe, VMware, Whitelisting
by Neil MacDonald | March 31, 2012 | 7 Comments
In multiple Gartner surveys, security is cited as the number one inhibitor to the adoption of Cloud-based computing. Many IT professionals have a preconceived notion that cloud computing will be less secure than what they can deliver themselves on premises. This is a mistake. An absolute statement that cloud computing will be less secure is [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Cloud Security, DC-Summit-NA, GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA
by Neil MacDonald | February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’ve blogged before about advanced threats that easily bypass our traditional protection mechanisms and reside undetected for extended periods of time on our systems. On one of the panels I moderated on APTs, Dave Merkel from Mandiant put it best. “You are compromised, get over it”. Others in the US Government have come to the [...]
Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Application Security, Best Practices, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Defense-in-Depth, DevOpsSec, Next-generation Security Infrastructure
by Neil MacDonald | January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
We’ve just published a new Magic Quadrant for Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) for Gartner clients. In Gartner research, we use the term DAST to refer to testing solutions and techniques that are designed to test an application from the “outside in” to detect conditions indicative of a security vulnerability in an application in its [...]
Category: Application Security Applications Cloud Cloud Security Tags: Application Security, application security testing tools, Cloud Security
by Neil MacDonald | December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’m just back from Gartner’s US 2011 Data Center Summit held this week in Las Vegas. In my previous post, I talked about information security vendor’s concerns on the potential impact of the Eurozone crisis on information security spending. Here, I want to outline the top security-related issues and concerns that I discussed with attendees [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security, vShield
by Neil MacDonald | November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
I spent the last week in Barcelona with 4,000+ attendees at the 2011 Gartner European Symposium. It was a new venue for Gartner (we were displaced from Cannes by the G20), and I’m happy to say it was a fantastic with record attendance. Security was front and center of attendee interests. We had a total [...]
Category: Application Security Cloud Security Virtualization Security Tags: application security testing tools, Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Information Security, symposium
by Neil MacDonald | October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last week I attended Gartner’s US Symposium conference in Orlando. With 8,000+ attendees (25% of which were CIOs) and at least 1,000 more analysts, vendors and support staff, you can imagine it was quite a scene. In addition to three presentations, I had more than 30 fantastic one on ones with attendees over the four [...]
Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Microsoft Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Microsoft Security, symposium, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
As I research into the future of adaptive security infrastructure, I am convinced that the future of information security lies in software, not hardware. If you think about it for a bit, most of information security policy enforcement is in the form of software already – it’s just embodied (entombed?) in physical hardware. Unfortunately, the [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtual Appliances, Virtualization Security
