March 27, 2008:
Protecting the crown jewels with clear thinking and a little help from your friends
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I see a transformation in modern security practice. There is a new appreciation for the primacy of data. Certainly the financial institutions are forward thinkers in this regard, along with insurance companies and most of the heavily regulated industries and...
January 12, 2008:
First in a series of podcasts - a new era of technology sales
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Well, there were a few technical difficulties, and I picked up some annoying static on my little Sony Digital Recorder, but all in all I'm very happy to present the first podcast of 2008. My conversation with Dan Dunkel, sales...
September 12, 2007:
crafty or clueless - Sony fails to learn its lesson the first time
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When the story broke that Sony was loading unauthorized rootkits on the PCs hosting the Sony USB memory stick, I was baffled. Surely all the idiots were fired last time this happened - when it was discovered that rootkits were...
September 5, 2007:
It'll take me awhile to digest all the technology I observed (and all the yummy Israeli food I ate), but here is a sample
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Here are a few of the companies I had the pleasure to visit while in Israel. Applicure Technologies www.applicure.comWeb application security software.Applicure’s dotDefender software-based web application firewall is a solution for web application protection when appliances are not attractive or...
September 1, 2007:
A one-stop security shop in Israel (more along the lines of kiosk-on-Diezengoff than SuperSol, but useful anyway)
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Mr. David Hava, the CEO of MIW, Ltd. (Managing Investments Worldwide) explained how his business development firm came to invite Eleanor and me to Israel. Over coffee (café afouk, naturally) he described MIW as the coordinator and manager for a...
September 1, 2007:
Day One in Israel: Time waits for no man - nor I for a late driver
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I arrived in Israel on Friday, the first day of the Israeli weekend, hoping to enjoy the luxurious Shabbat before starting a rather intense run of meetings bright and early Sunday morning through Wednesday afternoon. No sooner had I landed,...
August 23, 2007:
Brought to you by the letter 'V' - three vendors in Boston show me how to do security smarter
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I had a lovely trip to Boston this week and spent time with three vendor, each starting its name with the very fashionable letter V. Take and minute and check out these sharp companies. VidSys - Probably the coolest technology...
August 23, 2007:
Don't think of Verdasys as just another data leakage protection vendor
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I've been briefed by Verdasys a few times over the years, but frankly the fog never quite cleared for me. While I was Research Director at Forrester I would talk to these guys, usually in the context of data leakage...
August 2, 2007:
It doesn't take a genius to see that VideoIQ has a place in the intelligent video market
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I’ve written previously about VideoIQ – the new kid on the video analytics block that’s really an old kid. VideoIQ was spun out of the ailing GE Security earlier this year and is being headed by Scott Schnell. I had...
August 1, 2007:
...went to a garden party, and much to my surprise, there was a -- brand new best practices tool for network architecture
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The folks at Lisle Technology Partners have done it again. Building on seven years of success as a software development shop, the brilliant designers have finally launched their much anticipated new product AthenaVerify. The launch happened this week at a...
