Articles for 2008

Dogs and Cats Living Together?

October 14th, 2008

ANALYSIS – This SearchSecurity article discusses the need for businesses units to not only talk with security teams but to go so far as to establish a partnership that benefits the company bottom line. Just imagine, business units and security teams working together to enable application usage and move projects forward smoothly and efficiently as [...]

McAfee’s Acquisition Reminded Me That Proxies Generally Suck

October 8th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, McAfee acquired Secure Computing for $465M. For those who missed the irony in it, McAfee had previously sold a big portion of its network security business to Secure Computing, leaving many customers in the lurch. Now, with this latest acquisition, McAfee is getting a messaging security business (originally Ciphertrust) which [...]

Google and the Five Stages of Grief

September 5th, 2008

This week Google has announced the Chrome browser. I tried it. It is ok for now – not great – but ok. It’s fast and clean but missing some key features and many sites still don’t work with it. I think the importance of this Chrome browser is what it tells us about Google’s plans [...]