Security and Privacy
Jon Oltsik, ESG Principal Analyst, will be the Conference Program Chair at the Cloud Computing Summit in Washington, DC, on May 3rd and 4th, 2010.
ESG Senior Analyst Mark Bowker will also join him as the Conference Program Co-Chair.
The 2010 Cloud Computing Summit is two days of knowledge sharing on ...
Last week, I wrote a blog suggesting that IT professionals and legislators read the new book, "Fatal System Error," by Joseph Menn. This recommendation was based on my belief that most people don't understand the scope of sophistication of current cyber threats and that we need more ...
It is easy to become cynical around all the Cloud Computing hype we hear on a daily basis. That said, it is clear to me that there is a tremendous amount of capital and human resources working on cloud computing so the likelihood of future cloud computing ...
Two stories caught my eye yesterday.
First, a company named Newegg shipped counterfeit Intel i7 chips to customers. Customers received a clay mold and piece of scrap metal rather than a real processor. Intel and others are investigating this situation.
In another story, the Energizer Duo Charger, a laptop battery charger ...
When I left home for the RSA Conference last Monday, I was already aware of the types of cyber threats we are up against. After speaking with security research leaders from Bluecoat, Symantec, and Trend at RSA, I am even more convinced that we are way behind ...
Earlier this week, LiveOffice – a provider of hosted e-mail management and archiving services – announced its Social Media archiving and supervision service. To summarize, LiveOffice can archive social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) web pages for as long as you wish (it’s a snapshot of the page) ...
It's pouring in San Francisco, but ironically, the RSA Conference is already pointed toward clouds--in this, case cloud computing security.
There were two announcements yesterday around securing private clouds. New initiative king Cisco announced its "Secure Borderless Network Architecture," which is actually pretty interesting. Cisco wants to unite ...
Published on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 10:36 am | No Comments »
Authors: Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Jon Oltsik |
More than one-half (55%) of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed will increase their spending on information security products and services in 2010. Spending will vary by company size, vertical industry, and organizational behavior. Using data from ESG’s 2010 IT Spending Intention Survey, this brief analyzes security spending at both ...
Authors: Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Jon Oltsik |
According to ESG's 2010 IT Spending Intentions data, 55% of midsized (i.e., less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) organizations will increase spending on information security products and services in 2010.
Great news for the industry, but further analysis provides a more succinct picture: while 61% of ...
"Key management is one of those 'gotcha' categories," says Jon Oltsik, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
via PGP Offers Enterprise Key Management To Consolidate Encryption Control - Network Computing.
