Recent Security Analysis
Secure Computing spends 'divestiture dividend' on Securify
MIS / Analyst Note, 4 Sep 2008
Brenon Daly Policy management: the next frontier in identity management?
Identity management is a point of inflection; what lies ahead? Monolithic stacks are proving incapable of coping with SaaS and SOA. What's required is a scalable, standards-driven approach to aligning access decisions to policies.
MIS / Spotlight, 4 Sep 2008
Steve Coplan Likewise looks beyond identity consolidation to infrastructure role
With customer growth momentum and its open source 'seeding' strategy supporting a leveraged sales model, Likewise's product strategy is aimed at expanding from a well-defined problem to providing centralized, transparent authentication management.
MIS / Impact Report, 27 Aug 2008
Steve Coplan, Jay Lyman Montego Networks comes out of stealth and teams with Lancope on analysis
Founded by veterans of Reflex Security, Montego flew under the radar until earlier this year. Now it's out in the open, and the first item of business is an integration of its Virtual HyperSwitch with Lancope's StealthWatch network behavior analysis.
MIS / Impact Report, 26 Aug 2008
Rachel Chalmers BehavioSec's 'continuous authentication': taking authentication to the next level?
It's not just making sure you know who the user is, but also that users are still who they say they are, BehavioSec points out. Using behaviometrics behind the scenes, the company claims it can spot when a session has been hijacked.
MIS / Impact Report, 26 Aug 2008
Steve Coplan e-DMZ burnishes its credentials as a privileged identity management contender
Driven by compliance requirements and growing anxiety about enforcing policy-driven controls for administrator access to resources, privileged identity management is quickly taking shape. Can password management pioneer e-DMZ capitalize?
MIS / Impact Report, 22 Aug 2008
Steve Coplan Oracle: top of the heap in identity and access management?
We've had anecdotal evidence that Oracle's growth in the identity and access management market is ahead of rivals, but now it has provided FY08 numbers to back it up. We examine how it's managed to pull it off, and whether it can keep it up.
MIS / Market Development, 14 Aug 2008
Steve Coplan What future lies ahead for Accario's 'sandbox on a stick'?
The options for Accario illustrate the opportunities that the decomposing network edge, the rise of virtualization and the need for distributed identity management present. Can the company capitalize?
MIS / Impact Report, 14 Aug 2008
Steve Coplan Verizon offers managed network access control services
The company's Verizon Business managed services group has announced a managed network access control program to help companies deploy and manage NAC products. Is this the future of NAC?
MIS / Market Development, 12 Aug 2008
Paul Roberts Mirage claims Patent Office approval for post-admission NAC
MIS / Analyst Note, 12 Aug 2008
Paul Roberts Purewire raises another $2m, unveils Web security SaaS product
Purewire is one of a new breed of SaaS-based Web security startups. High-profile execs, a new funding round and the addition of ISS luminary Tom Noonan to their board give Purewire some momentum, but SaaS-based Web security is becoming a crowded field.
MIS / Impact Report, 7 Aug 2008
Paul Roberts Jericho Systems provides access control once the walls come tumbling down
The company's attribute-based access control sets it apart in the authorization management space.
MIS / Impact Report, 6 Aug 2008
Steve Coplan McAfee takes out Reconnex in a $46m deal that can set the DLP-acquisition bar low
McAfee has been actively pursuing a network side to the anti-data-leakage and data loss prevention story it began with its acquisitions of Onigma and SafeBoot. With Reconnex, McAfee gets network-based ADL rather inexpensively. Is it also cheap?
TDM / Deal Analysis, 31 Jul 2008
Nick Selby, Paul Roberts Sourcefire's Q2 doesn't rock the world, but it would seem to be good enough
In the face of a hostile takeover bid from Barracuda Networks, Sourcefire was being watched carefully by investors for signs of a blow-the-doors-off, either good or bad, Q2. Didn't happen.
MIS / Market Development, 31 Jul 2008
Nick Selby, Brenon Daly ObjectSecurity advocates for 'model-driven security' to underpin access control
Making the transition from a services to a product company based on its experience implementing model-driven architecture security frameworks, tiny ObjectSecurity is pushing for a structural change in access control based on a policy management layer.
MIS / Impact Report, 30 Jul 2008
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