Network Security
As VMworld winds down today, several security vendors including BitDefender, Catbird, Lumension, McAfee, Sophos and Symantec announced their intentions to work with VMware as a security partner or integrate with VMware vShield APIs. These vendors join Trend Micro, a company that bet on vShield integration and is clearly benefiting from ...
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ESG Research Brief: Remote/Branch Offices – An Extremely Vulnerable Target for Security Attacks 
Published on Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 4:02 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jon Oltsik |
Over the past few years, IT consolidation has reached a fever pitch with most organizations moving as many IT assets as possible from remote locations and small data centers into more cost-effective optimized corporate facilities. The applications and data in these centralized sites, however, are still accessible to remote/branch offices ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jon Oltsik |
Many organizations are evaluating a new security model based upon IT risk management best practices. This is a good idea, but not enough for today’s dynamic and malevolent threat landscape. To keep up with IT changes and external threats, large organizations need to embrace two new security practices: Real-time Risk ...
I took a few days to comment on the RSA breach because I wanted to see what more I could learn about the details rather than speculate about what might be. But in the end, as far as what lessons the customer can take from this breach, the details don't ...
I have two immediate words with regard to the EMC/RSA breach: Holy smokes! Add the EMC/RSA breach to a list including the Aurora attack on Google, Conficker, and WikiLeaks as extremely frightening cyber security incidents. Can anyone still claim that we aren't extremely vulnerable to cyber crime, ...
Spending three days in Las Vegas can be a dangerous thing. But, I can honestly say for the first time I didn't drop a single coin in a slot or sit at a card table. Quite frankly, I was busy getting a brain dump from IBM on its latest announcements ...
I've been in back-to-back meetings at the RSA Conference, which limits my time for blogging. Here is my brain dump for the day:
The focus of RSA seems to be on cloud and mobile security. I get that these are hot areas with lots of marketing buzz but I ...
“This breach is yet another example of what cybersecurity is all about,” Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, wrote in a blog post Monday.
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For the past 15 years or so, the networking industry has been hinting at a vision with a snappy title like "identity-driven networking." I first heard this concept in the late 1990s when Cisco came up with its own spin on this theme with an initiative called ...
The 2011 RSA Conference is only three weeks away, so the entire security industry is gearing up for this annual gathering of paranoid geeks. As an analyst, I've been getting lots of e-mail about what vendors will discuss at the event and I've also spent a bit ...
