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By Editor on May 06, 2010  |  Comments 0

Verizon Business Study Results

An interesting research report came out from Verizon Business about IT security spending. Here are a few of the points they made and a few comments I have on them.
Organisations are typically over-investing in some areas, while neglecting other parts that would yield significant gains, said Peter Tippett, vice-president of technology and innovation at [...]

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By Editor on March 05, 2010  |  Comments 0

Are social media platforms the Jurassic Park of computing?

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Kevin Prince is chief technology officer of Perimeter E-Security.
The views expressed are his own. –
Social Networks have grown out of control. Literally. Today, neither users nor social networking companies can control the monsters they have created. Think Jurassic Park: where John Hammond wanted to build something no one else had ever done, a [...]

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By Editor on January 17, 2010  |  Comments 0

Top 10 Information Security Threats of 2010

Each year Kevin Prince, CTO at Perimeter E-Security writes a paper regarding what he feels are the top threats for the coming year. Over the past several years, his papers have not only been insightful, but spot on in nearly everything he has predicted. Perimeter just released the 2010 version and can be [...]

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By Editor on January 13, 2010  |  Comments 0

Google Announcement on China

Google made a significant announcement on their blog recently. The blog post is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html. It has to do with Google potentially pulling out of China altogether. It states that Google is no longer willing to filter results and they appear willing to close up shop in China. According to the [...]

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By Editor on December 22, 2009  |  Comments 0

The yin and yang of cybersecurity

The yin and yang of cybersecurity
December 21, 2009 10:00 AM
Howard (right) and Prince (below) say online peace can only come when corporations achieve “cyberbalance.” Photos: Perimeter
On the Internet, the good guys and the bad guys are inextricably connected. But what happens when one side gets the upper hand?
By Doug Howard, chief strategy officer, and [...]

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Employee Productivity

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Globalizing the Fight Against a Hostile Internet

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During my visit to Moscow last week, Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky waxed poetically about the need for a global law enforcement agency to police the Internet against criminals and hackers. In his estimation, the Internet never will be free of threats so long as hackers are able to launch attacks against international [...]