Gotta love technology, I am writing this blog at 30,000 feet as fly back to Boston from the RSA Conference. All in all, it was a good week – attendance was up at RSA and there were real security professionals present, not just technology vendors. Here are a few final thoughts about RSA and my [...]
It’s late and my brain is fried from 3 days of meetings — but here are a few more observations from the RSA Security conference. There is way less discussion about regulatory compliance than in the past which puzzles me. Compliance fatigue? Perhaps but with PCI 2.0, FISMA 2.0, and pending cybersecurity legislation, I expected [...]
I’ve been in back-to-back meetings at the RSA Conference, which limits my time for blogging. Here is my brain dump for the day: The focus of RSA seems to be on cloud and mobile security. I get that these are hot areas with lots of marketing buzz but I have two problems here: Mobile security [...]
As of this writing, Cisco shares are down between 11% and 13% even though it beat the Street’s revenue and profit estimates. Why the dip? The competition is real. About 5 years ago, I visited a number of CIOs on Wall Street and asked them which vendor was their “second source” for networking equipment. I [...]
By now you’ve read that Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, died this weekend at the age of 84. Lots of people will chronicle Olsen’s life and career: MIT, Lincoln labs, DEC, the PDP-1, VAX, etc. I’m sure a lot will be written about how Digital missed the PC market, how the company lost [...]
In a weekend highlighted by banal football chatter, a critical news story received minimal attention. Beyond Packers, Steelers, and new Bud Light commercials, the Wall Street Journal reported a security breach of NASDAQ last Friday. Apparently, hackers penetrated the NASDAQ OMX Group which runs a service providing “secure” communications between public companies and their boards. [...]
Back in 2007, ESG asked 206 IT security professionals to respond to the following statement: “Desktop security has become a commodity market with little difference between products.” As expected, 58% of respondents either strongly agreed (17%) or agreed (41%) with this statement. In other words, it really didn’t matter whether you ran Internet security tools [...]
Whenever IT professionals are asked about cloud computing, they say that their organization is interested but cautious. Yes, they are doing a lot of research and planning and some are using public cloud services for software development and test or publicly-facing web applications. What about mission-critical applications or private data? No way, too risky! ESG [...]
For the past 15 years or so, the networking industry has been hinting at a vision with a snappy title like “identity-driven networking.” I first heard this concept in the late 1990s when Cisco came up with its own spin on this theme with an initiative called Directory Enabled Networking (DEN). The thought was that [...]
The 2011 RSA Conference is only three weeks away, so the entire security industry is gearing up for this annual gathering of paranoid geeks. As an analyst, I’ve been getting lots of e-mail about what vendors will discuss at the event and I’ve also spent a bit of time perusing the conference website. This activity [...]
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