Cybersecurity Snippets
By Jon Oltsik
Jon Oltsik is an ESG senior principal analyst and the founder of the firm’s cybersecurity service. With almost 30 years of technology industry experience, Jon is widely recognized as an expert in all aspects of cybersecurity and is often called upon to help customers understand a CISO's perspective and strategies.
What I learned at Tufin's customer conference (Tufinnovate)
Massive network security changes, cloud adoption, and a pressing need for network security process automation were among the things discussed at Tufin's customer conference.
07/16/18
The new endpoint security market: Growing in size and scope
Massive funding rounds by CrowdStrike and Cylance demonstrate that endpoint security may be the tip of the cybersecurity spear.
06/20/18
Cisco poised to become a cybersecurity force
Cisco's cybersecurity strategy focuses on product integration, an open platform, and simplifying operations for its customers. But it must do more to capture the attention of information security professionals.
06/13/18
Moving to central network security policy management for hybrid clouds
With controls built into the infrastructure, the industry is headed toward central network security policy management (and reporting).
06/06/18
The rise of analyst-centric security operations technologies
The shift of technology to meet analyst needs has altered the infosec market -- for the better.
05/30/18
Symantec in a position to progress and prosper
Symantec has some internal challenges and increased competition, but it appears to be facing these challenges from a position of strength in the market.
05/25/18
Containers are here. What about container security?
ESG data indicates that cybersecurity pros have problems around the nuances of container technology and implementing container-centric security controls.
05/15/18
It’s time to think harder about security data management
Organizations are running into scalability problems as they collect, process, and analyze more security data. It’s time for enterprise security data management.
05/11/18
The evolution of security operations, automation and orchestration
Basic functionality of SOAR products is being supplemented with strong integration, canned runbooks, and case management.
05/09/18
Cloud computing security chaos continued at RSA Conference 2018
Cloud security has growing needs and lots of challenges. Here are some thoughts on solutions and strategies.
05/02/18
What is a cybersecurity technology platform anyway?
Vendors are pushing platforms, but features, functionality, and definitions vary. Here’s a list of “must have” cybersecurity platform attributes.
04/27/18
Quick take-aways from the RSA Security Conference
Last week's RSA Security Conference had good discussions and industry focus, but there was too much hype -- and there's lots of work ahead.
04/23/18
Cloud security will (and should) dominate the RSA Conference
Cloud computing is a runaway IT train, but cloud security is still messy and immature. RSA should become the place to go for cloud security vision, training, best practices, and technology leadership.
04/12/18
Software-defined perimeter: Important initiative, ineffective name
A geeky and confusing name doesn’t communicate business, privacy, and security benefits. Instead of software-defined perimeter, I suggest ubiquitous security access services (USAS).
04/10/18
Machine learning: Security product or feature?
Apart from game-changing security technologies, market movement indicates that machine learning is a product feature.
04/06/18
RSA Conference: CISOs' top 4 cybersecurity priorities
When cybersecurity executives head to the RSA Conference, they will be looking for information about threat intelligence, SOAPA, business risk, and changing security perimeters.
04/03/18
Is it time to unify endpoint management and security?
Modern unified management makes sense, and the industry is reacting by providing solutions. The question is whether enterprise organizations will use them.
03/29/18
GDPR: Look out for 'right to be forgotten storms' ahead
Thousands of EU citizens may ask data controllers to erase their records by the end of May. Will organizations be ready for this coming GDPR storm?
03/15/18
3 areas in which CISOs are becoming more proactive
Security executives are taking a hands-on approach in areas such as threat intelligence, privacy, and business initiatives.
03/13/18
Endpoint security suites must detect/prevent threats AND ease operations
Organizations want better threat prevention/detection, but only if new endpoint security tools can help automate and simplify operations, too.
03/06/18
Top Blog Posts
Sponsored Links
- What are you doing to accelerate IT agility? Learn about the IT model that serves as a catalyst for digital transformation.
- dtSearch® instantly searches terabytes of files, emails, databases, web data. See site for hundreds of reviews; enterprise & developer evaluations
- Unlock the potential of your data. How well are you harnessing information to improve business outcomes? A new CIO Playbook will help.
- Learn why advanced analytics should be considered the critical workload in a hybrid cloud infrastructure for today’s business
- To remain competitive, Cloud providers must deploy next-generation technologies that deliver the performance that new enterprise workloads demand
- The powerful combination of machine vision and AI is solving some of the toughest societal and business challenges
- Intel FPGAs are the foundation for a new type of data center with the versatility and speed to handle a variety of workloads