August « 2010 « Scott Crawford

Intel-McAfee: First Stroke of Midnight for the IT Security Industry? Or Inflection Point for the Future?

posted by Scott Crawford | August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments

Fortunately for me (I was going to say “unfortunately,” but in retrospect I think it was a Godsend), I was in South America with extremely limited connectivity when the Intel-McAfee story broke. This, however, gave me some time to a) enjoy the spectacular scenery of Rio de Janeiro, and b) formulate my thoughts about this eyebrow-raising deal...

Posted in Security Tags: Cloud, Intel, McAfee, Mobile, Security, Virtualization

Security: Going Beyond No, Part 2: Getting to Yes

posted by Scott Crawford | August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments

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In my last post, I talked about getting beyond “the business of no” in security, to a more effective and thorough approach in which organizations define their objectives, actually implement them, maintain visibility into the environment for consistency with those objectives or activity that could indicate threats, and respond accordingly. This more mature approach is...

Posted in Security Tags: CCM, Change management, risk management, Security

Security: Going Beyond No

posted by Scott Crawford | August 27, 2010 | 0 Comments

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What makes our coverage of security at EMA different? Simply this: We do not see security management as something confined to narrow segments of technology, isolated from other aspects of IT or from the people and processes that make up the business. At first blush, this may seem fairly obvious, considering that security is, after...

Posted in Security Tags: Cloud computing, PDCA, Security, Security management