UTM Systems for Enterprise Security Debated
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
When a better way of doing things arises, an analyst who seeks to shed light on the future for their lackadaisical client base would attempt to nudge them towards the light of change: enhanced security, better control, and lower total costs as demonstrated by the Enterprise Class UTM vendors. Never have I seen an analyst firm so adamantly defend the status quo.
Korea Held a Cyber War, But Nobody Came
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Bruce Schneier points out the attacks against US Federal sites that succeeded in shutting them down or the malware spread by USB thumb drive that infected the US Military Central Command, demonstrate a lack of common sense anti-virus and patch management. But that is a very big deal Bruce…
Are We Creating a State of Cyber-Attrition?
By Steven Fox, Founder of SecureLexicon
War has not changed. The weapons of disruption, corruption, and destruction reflect only the evolution of human creativity and innovation. We must understand the conflicts that drive their use, be they individual, corporate, or international. Without this insight, we are doomed to cyber attrition.
Stiennon Interviews Fortinet CTO Michael Xie
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Michael Xie is CTO of Fortinet and drives all of their development of true “Next Generation” security appliances. Hear him describe his views on speeds and feeds, routing and switching in the firewall, and cost per secure megabit.
Is Twitter The Peasant’s New Pitchfork?
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
A chant at a football game can embroil everyone at the event but it too dies out. While it may be possible to get someone to donate their computer to an attack they soon tire of their own machine being slowed by the activity. And thus DDoS attacks promulgated through Twitter, while devastating in the short term are indeed short lived.
Stiennon Talks to SecureLexicon’s Steven Fox
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Listen to the podcast as Steven asks me about “Knowing thy enemy”, “lessons learned”, “crowd sourcing attacks”, “understanding environmental and cultural context”, “Iranian cyber war”, and “political goals”.
The Cyber Shot Twittered Around the World
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Unlike Russia, who to this day has successfully denied participation in cyber attacks on Estonia, Lithuanian, and Georgia; or China who vehemently denies their massive cyber espionage activities, the US has pretty much lent its support to a communication vehicle that is writing a new chapter in the history of cyber warfare.
Stiennon Interviews Radware’s Avi Chesla
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Radware has been raising some eyebrows lately, and although they have a global presence they have not established a huge footprint in North America. But when they hired away one of Fortinet’s top SE’s in Canada I started to get the idea that they were ready to come back.
