After a short hiatus we are back with the next installment of our Data Centric Security series. This post will discuss why customers are interested in this approach, and specific use cases they are looking to address. It should be no surprise that all these use cases are driven by security or compliance. What’s interesting is why other tools and technologies do not meet their needs. What prompts people to look for a different approach to data security? Those are the questions we will address…
As you get older time seems to move faster. There may be something to these theories of Einstein. It’s hard to believe that yesterday was July 1. That means half of 2014 is in the rear view mirror. HALF. That’s unbelievable to me. Time is flying at the speed of light. I look at the list of things I wanted to do and it’s still largely unfinished. I did a bunch of things I didn’t expect to be doing. Though I guess that’s always the case.
As they fight to keep the Firestarter running through Google outages, vacations, and client travel, our dynamic trio return once again. This week they discuss some of the latest news from a particular conference held out in Washington DC last week which Mike stopped by (well, the lobby bar) and Rich used to help run.
In a rather uncommon occurrence, we are updating one of our papers within a year of publication. As shown by our recent deep dive into Advanced Endpoint and Server Protection, endpoint security is evolving pretty quickly. As mentioned in the latest version of our Endpoint Security Buyer’s Guide, mobile devices are just additional endpoints that need to be managed like any other device. But it has become clear that we need to dig a bit deeper into securing mobile endpoints, so we will.
This week’s intro has nothing to do with security – just a warning in case that matters to you.
I’m betting most people spent their spare time this week watching the World Cup. Or perhaps “sick time”, given the apparent national epidemic that suddenly cleared up by Friday. I am not really a ‘football’ fan, but there were some amazing matches and I remain baffled at how a player thought he could get away with biting another player during a match. And then flop and cry that he hurt his mouth!…
You have to love it when your employees take some initiative and aggressively take it to the competition who is cleaning your clock. They spend their time working the product, refining the messaging, and getting your mojo back in the market, right?
I’m not sure why I ever think I’ll get anything done in June. I do try. I convince myself this year will be different. I look at the calendar and figure I’ll be able to squeeze in some writing. I’m always optimistic that I will be able to crank through it because there is stuff to get done. And then at the end of June I just shrug and say to myself, “Yup, another June gone and not much got done.”
It’s all about the data. The need of many different audiences to derive value from data is driving several disruptive trends in IT. The question that naturally follows is “How do you maintain control over data regardless of where it moves?” If you want to make data useful, by using it in as many places as you can, but you cannot guarantee those places are secure, what can you do?
For the final installment of our analysis of the 2014 Open Source Development and Application Security Survey, we will focus on open source development trends. Our topic is less security per se, and more how developers use open source, how it is managed, and how it is perceived in the enterprise.
Continuing our analysis of the 2014 Open Source Development and Application Security Survey, we can now discuss results as the final version has just been released. Today’s post focuses on application security related facets of the data.