Every time I think of Splunk I think of people really really raring to go about something, and really sorta defensive if you don’t, you know, get it. It’s a bit creepy. However I must say, having downloaded and used the thing, that it just rocks in a number of ways.
One of the things [...] ...
Over at the Swedish booth - the one where the beer started flowing at 4PM sharp - I met with several old and some new friends - had a good chat with Maggie from Clavister (UTM, SSL/VPN and SEM); and was very interested to see the guys from both AppGate (VPN, remote access security, [...] ...
You have to wonder why, at show that is one of the world’s most successful security exhibitions in terms of actual leads gotten and deals done, so many vendors still resort to babes in nurses’ getups or wearing shirts that say, ‘I’ve Been Penetrated’. Flacks here tell me that attendance is up 40% over [...] ...
There’s more evidence of a shakeout in the antimalware space, as sources tell us that UK based Sophos landed a 120,000 seat deal for endpoint security software at defense contractor Northrop Grumman, displacing its larger competitor, Symantec. The deal is just the latest of this sort. We wrote last year about GE ousting Big Yellow [...] ...
Maybe it’s us, but we’re just not seeing the beef in the governance, risk management and compliance ‘industry,’ or GRC. We have heard vendors shouting GRC from the rooftops – mainly as a catch-all phrase to describe everything from vulnerability analysis to security dashboard and metrics plays (e.g., Agiliance and Clearpoint Metrics) to ESIM [...] ...