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 [...]
Are social media platforms the Jurassic Park of computing?
Link to article
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]




