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In keeping with my nascent tradition of not predicting trends, I’ll instead propose a number of focal points that network engineering and operations professionals should keep in mind in the coming New Year of 2012.  2011 resolutions were around application-awareness, connecting with the network security team, assessing the impact of videoconferencing, embracing automation, and improving service...

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(Ed. note: After too long a hiatus, I wanted to round out this series that began here and continued here, here and here. This will certainly not be the end of my coverage of data-driven security, however. Keep an eye on this blog as the field continues to unfold.) In this series, I’ve described three...

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One of nature’s great migrations will take place once again next week as the IT security world makes its annual pilgrimage to the RSA Conference in San Francisco. (And yes, dear, it means Valentine’s Day spent with a buncha geeks and suits rather than you…go figure.) Herewith a glimpse of some of the main things...

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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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One of the things that has amused me to no end in this business is the number of times I have encountered product vendors who emphatically do not want to be characterized as being “a security vendor.” I understand the rationale, as far as it goes: vendors of infrastructure and application technologies do not want...

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