Recent Security Analysis
HBGary Federal, Palantir partner on threat analysis
The advent of state-sponsored cyber espionage and advanced persistent threats puts a premium on malware forensics. Enter HBGary Federal, which is partnering with information-analysis firm Palantir Technologies.
MIS / Impact Report, 8 Feb 2010
Paul Roberts The rise of information rights management – applying security to enterprise data?
Information rights management – not to be confused with pesky DRM – is emerging as a useful tool (in tandem with data loss prevention, identity management and encryption) to manage as well as understand how and to whom enterprise data flows.
MIS / Spotlight, 3 Feb 2010
Steve Coplan Safend rounds out full endpoint DLP suite, filling chasm between 'free' and Verdasys
The vendor's latest releases provide more feature-rich endpoint DLP than baked-in antivirus suites, at a lower price point than Verdasys' best-in-breed offering. Is there a midmarket?
MIS / Market Development, 3 Feb 2010
Josh Corman PGP buys ChosenSecurity to add an identity component to its data-protection strategy
The advent of cloud has created the need for policy-driven data protection in hybridized environments and a trusted broker between service providers and consumers. ChosenSecurity provides the identity element that PGP needs to pursue the opportunity.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 2 Feb 2010
Steve Coplan, Lauren Eckenroth Federation focus paid off for Ping in 2009, but are there clouds on the horizon?
Federated SaaS SSO, through partners GoogleApps and salesforce.com, is picking up. Ping's talk of the federated authorization opportunity suggests the company is seeing cloud migration as a source of tangible revenue.
MIS / Market Development, 1 Feb 2010
Steve Coplan Oracle mostly digests Sun identity management in a strategic footnote
MIS / Analyst Note, 29 Jan 2010
Steve Coplan EMC's RSA Security looks to Archer for process management and orchestration
It's not so much an entry into the GRC market that has attracted RSA to Archer as it is what the security company sees as the foundation for a functional tier that orchestrates interaction between management silos and drives operational processes.
MIS / Market Development, 21 Jan 2010
Steve Coplan First stop for PerspecSys' cloud data-governance aspirations is salesforce.com
The startup has the cloud data-security challenge in its sights, but its design goals have focused on preserving SaaS functionality while locking down data.
MIS / Impact Report, 15 Jan 2010
Steve Coplan Tenable stages upstream migration into audit and analysis via security monitoring
With a new security console expected soon, and its elbows aimed in the direction of ESIM and IT GRC vendors, Tenable is betting it can reshape itself as a provider of an IT audit and analysis platform.
MIS / Impact Report, 13 Jan 2010
Steve Coplan Symantec picks up Gideon Technologies to boost SCAP, compliance chops
You probably haven't heard of Gideon, but Uncle Sam sure has – and that's good enough for Symantec, which is looking to make itself 'überrelevant' to public-sector customers and reverse rival McAfee's gains in the federal space.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 13 Jan 2010
Paul Roberts, Lauren Eckenroth Trustwave snags BitArmor, merging discovery and enforcement under one (managed) roof
By marrying its Vericept DLP discovery with BitArmor's Smart Tag encryption, Trustwave has a service to address midmarket compliance requirements. But tighter integration and orchestration is required to deliver on the long-term promise.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 12 Jan 2010
Steve Coplan, Paul Roberts, Lauren Eckenroth In a play for compliance dollars, Symantec buys Gideon Technologies
MIS / Analyst Note, 12 Jan 2010
Paul Roberts Triumfant looks to partnerships to parlay .gov success into commercial adoption
The company says 2009 was a good year, with increased demand for its zero-day detection technology. New Year's resolution: greater commercial adoption.
MIS / Market Development, 7 Jan 2010
Paul Roberts Cisco absorbs Rohati, but will Rohati's technology be absorbed into UCS?
With plenty of Cisco engineering talent onboard, the target struggled to align a market need with its product capabilities. As part of Cisco's ambitious UCS project, its identity-aware, high-performance gateway may have a shot at a second life.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 6 Jan 2010
Steve Coplan Governance, risk and consolidation: EMC buys Archer Technologies
The acquirer's RSA division has strengthened its hand in the compliance game, picking up the GRC darling. Could this be good news for Archer's smaller competitors?
TDM / Deal Analysis, 4 Jan 2010
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