After reading this inane blog post, “Cisco – Buying into the security game,” from an EMEA product manager for HP TippingPoint, the Security Twittersphere rose up together to call out this nonsense. I figured I would just let it lie, but I couldn’t. This is the worst type of competitive positioning – basically calling out a competitor for doing exactly what you have done. I think psychologists call this projection.
By the time most of you read this I will be on my way back down the east coast, shuttling all the kid’s stuff home after a summer of camp in the family truckster. 12+ hours in pleasant solitude as the Boss flies the kids home. They start school next Monday so we didn’t want them to sit in the car all day. So I’m taking one for the team, but it’s okay. I will spend the solitary time working over my world domination plans. Like I do on every long trip.
I may be done with having children, but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten how quickly 8 months can stream by.
It doesn’t happen very often so it’s highly scrutinized. No, it’s not me being nice to someone. It’s a security company IPO. Last week the folks at FireEye filed their Form S-1, which is the first step toward becoming a public company. The echo chamber blew up, mostly because of FireEye’s P&L.
Pretty much the entire team is out at the Black Hat conference.
Yes, we really are working. Heck, by the time you read this, Rich and James will have taught 2 separate cloud security classes.
We have covered the reasons endpoint security is getting more challenging, and offered some perspective on what is important when buying anti-malware and endpoint hygiene products – or both in an integrated package. Then we addressed the issues BYOD and mobility present for protecting endpoints. To wrap up we just need to discuss the buying considerations driving you toward one solution over another, and develop a procurement process that can work for your organization.
Phoenix can be a wild place for weather. We don’t get much rain, but when we do it often arrives with fearsome vengeance. When I first moved down here I thought “monsoon season” was just a local colloquialism to make Phoenicians think they were all tough or something. I mean, surely the weather here couldn’t rival what I was used to in Colorado, where occasional 100mph gusts are called ‘invigorating’ rather than ‘tornadoes’ – tornadoes go in circles.
We will close out this series by examining key decision criteria to help you select an API gateway. We offer a set of questions to determine which vendor solutions support your API technically, as well as the features your developers and administrators need. These criteria can be used to check solutions against your design goals and help you walk through the evaluation process.
When thinking about endpoint security it is important to decide what you consider an endpoint. We define an endpoint as any computing device that can access corporate data. This deliberately broad definition includes not just PCs, but also mobile devices (smartphones and tablets). We don’t think it is too broad – employees today expect to access the data they need, on the device they are using, from wherever they are, at any time. And regardless of the details, the data needs to be protected.
This is all over the news, but Wired was the first I saw to put things in the right context:
Four Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged with masterminding a massive hacking spree that was responsible for stealing more than 160 million bank card numbers from companies in the U.S. over a seven-year period.