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Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst
Jon Oltsik is a principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group as well as the founder of its Information Security and Networking services. Oltsik is widely recognized as an expert in security management and technology as well as identity and access management. Most recently, Oltsik has focused on Information Technology and Cybersecurity in the U.S. Federal Government.
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Advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks are forcing large organizations to supplement their information security strategies with new policies, processes, and technical controls. Many have adopted new anti-malware tools or network gateways—a good start, but additional layers of defense are still needed. For example, ESG believes that enterprises need better security ...
Less than a week before the RSA Conference in San Francisco and my telephones are ringing off the hook. People want to discuss a variety of topics including APTs, mobile security, cloud security, big data analytics, and so on.
Funny, but no one has mentioned data center network security. Yes, but ...
"Cloud infrastructure is driving a massive wave of data center consolidation," said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. "With its BlackDiamond X8, Extreme Networks is well-positioned to support this consolidation through an open fabric and switching architecture. The BlackDiamond X8 switch can deliver low latency, high density and ...
Published on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 1:41 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
Intelligent Management Aggregation Networks (iMAN) from vendors like Anue, Gigamon, NetOptics, and VSS Monitoring remain niche products for large enterprises and service providers with big complex networks. ESG Research forecasts a market transition in progress however. As enterprise organizations embrace data center consolidation, server virtualization, web applications, consumer devices, and ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
"As enterprise and government organizations adapt to changing cyber enemy skills and tactics, they need to arm themselves with superior intelligence, expert analysis and modern defenses," said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Fueled by covert, high-speed virtual machine introspection technology, CounterTack is well positioned to provide a ...
In my most recent blog, I got on my soapbox and stated my opinion that Congress should pass cybersecurity legislation to better protect U.S. Critical Infrastructure as soon as possible.
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Enterprises have entered into a state of "data center networking discontinuity", concludes a new report from The Enterprise Strategy Group. Data centers are being built at massive scales to achieve consolidation and prepare for cloud computing, but legacy data center networking equipment, operations processes, and management tools can no longer ...
Earlier this week, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) introduced a cybersecurity bill that would outline the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibilities for overseeing cybersecurity at privately-owned critical infrastructure organizations.
Unfortunately, some members of the Senate believe that this legislation is being rushed through Congress without the appropriate ...
Back in 2007, ESG asked 206 IT enterprise security professionals to respond to the following statement: Endpoint security has become a commodity market with little difference between products. A majority (58%) of respondents either “strongly agreed” or “agreed” with this statement.
ESG will be conducting new research on ...
How individual sites and networks become compliant depends on how much IPv6 impacts them and how much planning they do. Security compliance may actually be relatively easy because it is so deeply embedded in IPv6, advises Jon Oltsik, an analyst with Enterprise Strategies Group.
The Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) standard is ...
