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CA - positive as ever

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Despite the current economic conditions CA remain bullish that their products will speak for themselves and that they will emerge from the inevitable downturn stronger than before. [Read More...]

The World of Application Security

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Application security, and the notion that poorly implemented code can create a security flaw in a piece of software is a fairly recent innovation to many conventional IT security experts. This article reviews vendors in this market. [Read More...]

Symantec Move up The Scale, but can they Ring the Bell?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The underlying strategy now talked about by Symantec is to secure and manage your information driven world. But can they execute against this plan? [Read More...]

IBM does Security rather well

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

IBM may be big, and in some people's eye beautiful, but what are they doing to prove that their offerings are as safe and secure as any other vendor? [Read More...]

When Credit Crunch = Data Security Crunch

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Watching the turmoil in the international banking community I can't help but wonder what the implications are for data security in such difficult times. [Read More...]

PGP and IBM Supporting Bletchley Park

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

I was heartened to receive news of the initiative being kick started by PGP and IBM to get the international computer industry to support Bletchley Park [Read More...]

Protecting Company Information - Why, How and What if?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Protecting company information is becoming more and more difficult. As IT professionals we are faced with attacks from all sides, but ultimately the biggest threat to our data appears to be from our users. [Read More...]

Finjan speaks cybercrime

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

How often do you speak with a criminal? Far from being a dry report full of facts and figures on web crime this report has some interesting reproductions of online conversations with members of the criminal underworld. [Read More...]

Sophos to buy Utimaco

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Sophos has recently made a $342m bid to purchase Utimaco, the German data security company that focuses on data loss prevention (DLP) and data encryption.Does this deal make sense? [Read More...]

Open Source Code = Insecure Code?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Research released by application security vendor Fortify has highlighted security flaws in commonly used open source applications, some of which are being installed and deployed by large enterprises and governments. [Read More...]

The importance of saving Bletchley Park

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Bletchley Park, the home of the WW2 code breakers, has been in the news over the past couple of days as a group of notables have written to The Times complaining about the state of the historical site. [Read More...]

Are Tricerion revolutionising passwords?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Based in the UK Tricerion (www.tricerion.com) have come up with a rather intriguing solution to the IT password problem. [Read More...]

McAfee Enterprise Extras

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Piling up a server with extra virtual environments is all well and good but how do you make sure the systems are secure? [Read More...]

IBM uses Vormetric Products - Should You?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The fact that IBM are using Vormetric's encryption technology to provide data protection in their DB2 databases is a significant endorsement. Maybe this will persuade more end user organisations to see what Vormetric have to offer. [Read More...]

Endpoint Data Protection - A Market Update

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Bloor Research has just released a Market Update covering Endpoint Data Protection. But what does this mean? [Read More...]

Enterprise Data Protection - A Reality Today?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The first Bullseye report covering 43 vendors in the Enterprise Data Protection domain has just been released in time for InfoSec Europe, being held in London this week. But is Enterprise Data Protection a reality? [Read More...]

Web Transactions and Device Reputation - iovation Lead the Innovation

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Most people would like to believe they have a good reputation, maybe as a parent, business partner or professional. But what about the reputation of the devices they use on a day to day basis? [Read More...]

The real cost of data loss is down to butterflies

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:05:00 +0100

Maybe the time has come to stop the shrieking about individual data loss incidents and focus more on the bigger picture. That way, at least, we may get governments and organisations to take the matter seriously. [Read More...]

IBM Optim and Data De-Identification

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

For many IT security has been a long journey that is starting to come to an end as most issues have been dealt with. But many have forgotten the importance of data de-identification. [Read More...]

Ounce Labs weighs into rogue code

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

In the millions of lines of code that are churned out each day there is ample opportunity for the inside threat to rear its ugly head. Ounce Labs have an approach for dealing with this. [Read More...]

Glengarry Glen Ross - Old Fashioned Inside Threat

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 +0100

So what has this got to do with IT security? Not a massive amount, I just wanted to share a brilliant film with you in case you hadn't seen it. [Read More...]

Symantec Spammers Rock 'n' Roll

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Some Christmas fun from the spam chasers at Symantec [Read More...]

McAfee, ScanAlert and a Happy Christmas

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Well known in the United States, ScanAlert has created a $20 million business checking website security. They have been so successful that McAfee recently announced an intention to buy them. [Read More...]

Pain, Angst and Time - the real cost of a data breach.

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0100

The appalling circumstances surrounding the loss of the HMRC data disks has been well documented in the seething press and blogsphere over the past few days, but what is the real cost of a data breach, in plain old monetary terms? [Read More...]

Crap Government IT Rules OK? Oh well, pass the biscuits.

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:00:00 +0100

As I sit writing this rant I can feel the collective blogsphere seething at news that HM Revenue and Customs have managed to lose millions of child benefit records - up to 24 million according to BBC News at the time of writing. [Read More...]

Protegrity - offering the best of both worlds?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Protegrity Corporation (www.protegrity.com) recently announced that their Defiance Threat Management System (TMS) will be made available as either an appliance, software or a combined installation. [Read More...]

Data Level Protection and Loss Prevention - the final frontier?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:00:00 +0100

It's always a pleasure when you meet another person or organisation that appears to get data level protection and loss prevention. Workshare is just such a company. [Read More...]

Of Vista, RSA and Polite Guffaws

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:00 +0100

I'm still recovering from my trip to RSA in London on Tuesday [Read More...]

Data Loss Prevention - a Wise Investment?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:00:00 +0100

Having spent our time and effort securing our perimeters (which of course promptly disappeared), vendor attention is being focused on selling solutions to prevent data leakage in all its guises. [Read More...]

Lumension - shining a light?

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:00:00 +0100

The security industry is full of change and the re-branding of Patchlink earlier this month to become Lumension (www.lumension.com) reflected that company's next stage of evolution. [Read More...]