posted by Scott Crawford   | January 31, 2011 | 0 Comments

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In my ongoing series of posts on data-driven security, I noted the rise of defense tactics that seem to point the way toward reliance more on continuous, dynamic data sources than on intermittent feeds of data such as signature updates. One advantage of such an approach would be to make defense more responsive to new...

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When I first cut my teeth in IT security some years ago, I was a systems administrator for a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the parent of the National Center for Atmospheric Research here in Boulder. UCAR/NCAR is what Gordon Bell calls a “data place” – an organization whose mission in part...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | January 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

I cover many business intelligence vendors; some execute and some don’t.  I started in this industry back in the mid 90′s and I don’t think I have  witnessed another meltdown quite like HP’s business intelligence group. This morning HP announced that it would no longer actively sell its NeoView BI solution. Its not uncommon for...

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In the first two installments in this series, I looked at the rise of Tactical security defenses that are becoming more directly reliant on dynamic data feeds Data sources and emerging data markets to serve both security tactics and security intelligence In this post, I’ll look at the third aspect of data-driven security emerging today, and...

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In my last post, the first in this series, I talked about how recent vendor trends highlight the rise of data-driven tactics for defense. This is just one of three major aspects of data-driven security becoming more prominent in products and services. To recap, those three aspects are: Data-driven tactics which differ from legacy security...

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | January 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

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EMA has just collected some new data regarding how IT organizations are seeking to assimilate cloud services from a top-down, service management perspective. The data gathered in December of 2010, spanned 155 global respondents with high percentages of executives (better than 50% director and above) – as the goal was to understand how senior management and cross-domain...

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Data driven security graphic

Last week, Sourcefire announced the acquisition of Immunet, a provider of hosted anti-malware technology that delivers more responsive protection to emerging threats without the need for periodic signature updates. Much of the commentary on this deal has focused on the accelerating momentum of hosted security technology plays, and the advantages of security functionality delivered “from...

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posted by Julie Craig   | January 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

I always enjoy working with startups because there is so much innovation going on out there. This morning, I briefed with Techcello about the celloSaaS product. This is a solution that enables virtually any company to build multi-tenant SaaS over .NET. While it could certainly be used by ISVs, it also opens up private SaaS...

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | January 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

A lot comes to mind with a title like this one.  So, let’s start by wiping away areas like politics and finances (except as they relate to IT), births, deaths, marriages and celebrities.  In fact, there’s still a very long list of possibilities by just focusing on IT and everything that goes into managing and...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | January 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

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It seems that at the turn of each year pundits, experts and analysts find it necessary to wax poetic on the future of the business intelligence space. Not wanting to be left out I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on this past year and the trends and technologies that will be part...

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