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 [...]
The Road Ahead – Continuing to drive innovation in a budget conscious environment (Solution)
April 12th, 2011
This is Part III of the Innovation vs. Spending series. Also read Part I and Part II. We have entered 2011 as a cautiously optimistic nation. However, the economic turmoil in the first quarter of this year leaves us uncertain. The federal budget for fiscal year 2012 has yet to be finalized. Unrest in Egypt [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
Five Irrefutable Laws of Information Security
September 20th, 2010
Last week, Forrester held its annual Security Forum 2010 and discussed, among other topics, the need for consistent controls on our endpoint devices to ensure continuous security and network protection. In his keynote entitled What is the Most Significant Vulnerability We Face Today, Malcolm Harkins, Chief Information Security Officer at Intel Corporation cited an example [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
Ben Franklin’s Endpoint Security Advice
September 2nd, 2010
Ben Franklin dished out some pretty good security advice in his day. In fact, he was one of the most well known security professionals of his time. Many of you may realize it was Franklin that coined the saying ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ but what you might not know [...]
Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
6 IT Security Lessons Learned from the World Cup
July 6th, 2010
I am told by a highly reliable source (hi mom!) that, as a young’un, I horrified my (American) grandfather by kicking the (American) football back to him after he threw it to me – I’m sure he was seriously concerned about what they were teaching me at those European schools. And since I played a [...]
Lessons from the Road…Tokyo, London, Sydney: Part I
June 16th, 2010
A few things I learned while on the road in the past couple of weeks: 1. The platform-centric approach is firmly planted both here and overseas; 2. The efficiency of agents on the endpoint is increasingly under the microscope; 3. Application whitelisting is truly hitting a global tipping point; 4. Compliance costs continue to be [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
The Case for Endpoint Operations and Endpoint Security Convergence
May 24th, 2010
Ask any IT administrator where their greatest security risk lies and they will tell you it’s at the endpoint. The endpoint has expanded well beyond a desktop to include mobile devices, which allow greater user flexibility and productivity but also increase security risks to your network. Data that once resided on secure centralized servers (and [...]
Federal Cyber Security Outlook for 2010
May 3rd, 2010
Steve Antone, Vice President of Federal Solutions Group provides insights into the Federal Cyber Security Outlook for 2010 survey.
Could Reality Bite for U.S. Cyber Security?
April 5th, 2010
We’ve reported on the need for a non-toxic public sector/private sector bridge to help counter cybersecurity threats, and it’s encouraging to see signs we’re finally moving away from all the chatter to actually put a structure in place. The government needs to work with business to come up with effective strategies to keep information safe, [...]
iPad Security – Does the Enterprise Care?
April 1st, 2010
With the introduction of the iPad, Apple is again hitting the consumer market with an innovative product that may have security implications for enterprise IT teams. Although based on the iPhone OS, the use cases identified by Apple for the iPad (especially as an electronic document reader) portend a wide range of business uses that [...]
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