2012 Endpoint Security Trends
December 5th, 2011
What’s in Store for 2012? A new year brings a new IT security landscape and smart IT pros are planning ahead. To find out more about what 2012 will look like and what IT departments can be doing now to prepare, Lumension asked three experts to make their predictions and offer practical steps on what [...]
What Security Companies Can Expect in 2012
December 5th, 2011
‘Tis the season for predictions….and here’s an obvious one. Security manufacturers definitely have their work cut out for them in 2012. (Also listen to the podcast with Paul Henry and Randy Franklin Smith.) IT has big concerns about what the coming year will bring. In our newly-completed State of the Endpoint survey conducted by the [...]
2012 State of Endpoint Report Is In – Embrace Change to Win on Security
November 17th, 2011
It seems like only yesterday when I was excited to share the results from our 2010 report on the state of the endpoint. This week, we are releasing data from our third annual State of the Endpoint study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and I have to admit, this year’s data is even more intriguing, [...]
Chris Andrew - VP Security Technologies
Reasons to Consider Power Management in Your Enterprise
June 22nd, 2010
Chris Andrew, VP of Security Technologies for Lumension, shares his thoughts on power management considerations. What are some best practices to implementing PC power management in midsize and large enterprises? The average computer is left on all the time in a business environment, and that can waste a tremendous amount of power when you factor [...]
2010 Predictions Redux- 2nd Half Predictions and Looming Threats
June 22nd, 2010
As we ended 2009 and entered 2010, many predicted that 2010 was poised to go down in history as “the year of insider threats”. It was not a risky prediction to make considering our economic peril and our industries continued unwavering albeit misplaced focus on the gateway rather then endpoint security. The Worldwide State of [...]
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 [...]
Jeff Hughes - Product Marketing Executive, Mobile and Security Technologies
Six Critical Elements to Achieve Economies in FISMA Compliance
February 3rd, 2010
We recently sat down with Michael Rasmussen, President and Risk & Compliance Advisor at Corporate Integrity, to discuss how public sector organizations can meet the requirements of FISMA in a cost-efficient but effective manner. Q. How are public sector organizations adapting to FISMA compliance and why is this critical? A. Federal agencies are trying to [...]
The Worldwide State of the Endpoint: What Organizations Should Pay Attention to in 2010
November 17th, 2009
We’ve been discussing how unprepared organizations in the U.S. are for cyber attacks, and now there’s new research that backs up these concerns and illustrates the inherent weaknesses that must be addressed if we’re to adequately safeguard our information and vital systems. A new Ponemon-Lumension survey on the worldwide state of the endpoint shows that [...]
Operationalizing Endpoint Security: Striking a Balance between IT Operations and IT Security
September 24th, 2009
Gartner recently released a report on operationalizing endpoint security – on how signature-based anti-malware is losing effectiveness in the face of an overwhelming volume of threats. I have a few thoughts about the report’s findings and what organizations can do to better protect their endpoints. As the Gartner report made clear, signature-based anti-malware is losing [...]
Server Virtualization: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Security Sins of the Past?
May 21st, 2009
Here is an experiment for you to try. Go to google.com and type in the term “server virtualization” but don’t press ENTER. If “Google Suggestions” is working you should see a ranked list of about ten suggested searches that Google Suggestions creates from the “… relative popularity of common searches…”. When I did this test [...]
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