Why Go Corporate? Choices in How to Earn The Big Bucks
May 3rd, 2012
Hacking, like most things, is cyclical. In its earliest days, it was about proving a point; breaking a system that was said to be unbreakable and awarding bragging rights to the one who could do it. What began as an ego boost then became something much different in the 90s. Once hackers figured out how [...]
A Look at April’s State of Cyber Security
May 1st, 2012
April was a busy month for those of us that follow cybersecurity happenings. Tune in to my take on the last 30 days and as always, please share your thoughts on these topics and/or include any other news I may have left out. Download the podcast. Government Action Impacting our Industry CISPA: Yet Another Cybersecurity [...]
February: State of Cyber Security
March 20th, 2012
While January’s State of Cyber Security Report came in the form of a podcast, we decided to change things up a bit this month with a blog post. For the month of February, we are once again reporting on the wonderful and blunder-FULL state of cyber security. With Lumension’s State of Security Awards, we’ll provide [...]
Thoughts On Intel’s Acquisition of McAfee
August 19th, 2010
Big news on the merger and acquisition front today as Intel announced plans to purchase McAfee for $7.7 billion. The announcement is definitely a game changer for the security industry, and comes on the heels of other recent IT security acquisitions this year including Symantec’s acquisition of PGP, IBM’s acquisition of BigFix and HP’s acquisition [...]
A Word (or two) on the IBM Acquisition of BigFix
July 1st, 2010
Today, IBM announced plans to acquire BigFix and we have been asked several times today what this all means to Lumension. So I thought I would weigh in with my thoughts – both from an industry perspective and from Lumension’s perspective, more specifically. As it turns out, there has been increasing M&A activity in the [...]
Insights from America’s Growth Capital and RSA Conferences
March 9th, 2010
Last week, I attended two security-related events in San Francisco. I spoke on the topic of the converging endpoint on a panel at America’s Growth Capital’s 6th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference. And I walked the floor at the RSA Conference, where Lumension exhibited. Here are my thoughts on the key [...]
Reinventing Customer Communication and Co-Innovation
August 25th, 2009
To help facilitate a open dialogue, collaboration and co-innovation, we launched a new online customer community called Lumension Connect.
An Open Letter to the Soon-to-Be Appointed Cybersecurity Czar – the First 100 Days
May 28th, 2009
As those of us in the security industry anticipate the soon-to-be-appointed Cybersecurity Czar, I took some time to pull together my thoughts on his/her first 100 days in this newly-created role and the critical first steps that I’d recommend be tackled in those first 100 days, to ensure success. While I’ve been pretty vocal on [...]
RSA Conference: Evolutionary Rather than Revolutionary
May 1st, 2009
It didn’t take a long study of the show floor at this year’s RSA conference to find that the security vendor community has left the big picture themes of security conferences of the past in the rear-view mirror. Clearly, there was no major new product category such as a NAC or a DLP or an [...]
Protecting Your Property
March 18th, 2009
I think it’s fair to say that most companies do not enjoy the litigation process. It’s time-consuming and cost-intensive, not to mention nerve-wracking worrying about how the process might impact the perceptions of your customers, partners, investors and prospects. These reasons alone are enough motivation for companies to go out of their way to avoid [...]
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