A storm is brewing throughout the analyst community as one of the largest and most influential technology analyst firms comes under fire for one of their highest prized research artifacts – The Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) – ZL Technologies has filed a lawsuit alleging damages from Gartner’s Email and Archiving MQ and the MQ process [...]
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Gartner Magic Quadrant Under Fire – Lawsuit Alleges Defamation and more
Posted in Security, tagged Analysts firms, Dave Kellogg, Defamation, Gartner, Magic Quadrant, Mark Logic, ZL Technologies on October 22, 2009 | 14 Comments »
50th “Beyond The Perimeter” Podcast HighLights
Posted in Security, tagged 451 group, Aaron Bawcom, Adam Shostack, Adobe Systems, Al HUger, Alex Hutton, Andy Purdy, antivirus, Arbor Networks, Ben Natan, beyond the perimeter, BigFix, Black Hat, Brad Arkin, Charles Dodd, Cisco, Concord Hospital, Conficker, Cyber Command, Dan Philpott, Dave Watson, David Mortman, Defcon, Doug Washburn, Dr. Peter Tippet, Economics, eIQ networks, EMA, EMC, Enterprise Management Associates, FAIR, FCRA, FIPS, FISMA, Forrester Research, Gartner, government security, Guardium, Hackers for Charity, HIPAA, IBM, Immunet, Information Security, ISS, Jack Daniel, Jeff Jones, Jeremiah Grossman, Johnny Long, Jose Nazario, Joshua Corman, Kaiser, Kaspersky, malware, Mark Starry, Mede Finance, Melissa Hathaway, Men in black, Michael Dahn, Michael Santarcangelo, Michael Smith, Microsoft, Mike Rothman, Nick Selby, NICOR, NIST, patch management, Patric Peterson, Paul Roberts, PCI, Peter Kuper, podcast, Project Quant, Reflex systems, Rich Mogull, Rick Wesson, Risk, RSA, Ryan Russell, Sam Curry, Scott Crawford, Scott Johnson, Sean Goings, Security b-sides, Securosis, Situational awareness, stelaing the network, Support Intelligence, TAC Americas, Technical Publishing, Timothy Mullen, Verizon Business Services, Virtualization, virtualizaton, Web Applicaiton Security, White Hat Security on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not too long ago I embarked on a creating a podcast series that would provide more regularity than the blog. Beyond the Perimeter has been a tremendous amount of fun and as we just posted our 50th podcast I wanted to reflect on some of the highlights and wonderful guests we have been honored to [...]
Client-Side Virtualization Episode II: Standardization, Attack of the Clones and Desktops Reloaded
Posted in Security, Technology, tagged anti-virus, biodiversity, citrix, Data Breach, Data security, diversity, Gartner, HVD, IBM, Microsoft, standardization, VDI, Verizon, Virtualization, VMWare on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Consolidation is the major benefit or “killer app” for server/data center virtualization. Standardization is the major benefit or “killer app” for client-side virtualization.
As I was pondering the challenges of current systems management processes, researching the latest and greatest from the client-side virtualization vendors, and talking to a lot of large organizations I was trying to [...]
Client-Side Virtualization Overview Part 1; The Good, The Bad, and The Reality
Posted in Rants, Security, Technology, tagged application virtualization, AppV, citrix, FAIL, Gartner, HyperV, Hypervisor, life cycle Management, Microsoft, Security, systems management, ThinApp, VDI, Virtualization, VMWare, XenDesktop on June 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
To address the increasing cost and complexity of managing dynamic IT environments organizations are trying to understand how to adopt virtualization technologies. The value proposition and “killer app” are quite clear in the data center, however less attention has been given to the opportunities for endpoint virtualization. Even though there are multiple methods to address [...]
Moving Security through Visibility to Implementing Operational Controls
Posted in Security, tagged Auditing, BigFix, cloud computing, Gartner, IDS, Intrusion detection, Intrusion prevention, IPS, McAfee, Monitoring, nCircle, network security, Risk, threats, Virtualization, vulnerabilities, Vulnerability Assessment on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quick thought for the day. Most technologies in the security world move through a predictable cycle of adoption. First an organization implements a solution to gain visibility into the scope of the problem (VA, IDS, DLP/CMF, SIEM) then once it becomes apparent that the problem is vast and overwhelming they move to operationally implement technical [...]
Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and More – Part 1: Can We Secure The Cloud?
Posted in Security, tagged Amazon AWS, Amazon EC2, BigFix, Chris Hoff, cloud computing, Control, Gartner, Google App Engine, James Urquhart, Microsoft Azure, salesforce.com, Security, Visibility on December 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Cloud computing, or as I like to call it the return of the mainframe and thin-client computing architecture – only cloudier, has been creating a lot of interesting discussion throughout IT recently.
Cloud computing, which we will define as any service or set of services delivered through the Internet (Cloud) without requiring additional infrastructure on the [...]
The 11 Worst Ideas in Security
Posted in Security, tagged anti-virus, Britney Spears, CPAV, death, DLP, Gartner, IDS, Microsoft, NAC, passowrds, security vendors, Stiennon, Symantec, Things that go bump in the night, total suckage, VC funding, Vulenrbility Disclosure, WEP on August 22, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Now of course it would be easy to slap the hide of NAC, IDS, and DLP technologies, but why kick something when it is down, besides we have Stiennon for that (here)…so I give you the 11 worst ideas in security, presented in far less a grumpy format than Ranum’s 6 dumbest ideas in security [...]
Mission Accomplished: There is NO Future in Security
Posted in Security, tagged RSA, IBM, Microsoft, Gartner, Val Rahmani on April 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
According to IBM the Security industry is dead and has no future (here)
“The security business has no future,” Val Rahamani, general manager of IBM ISS and of security and privacy for IBM Global Technology Services. Rahamani said the security industry as it is today is not sustainable, and that IBM is instead going into the [...]
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