Archive for August, 2003

Security, service management style

One of the two challenges in enterprise security is how to integrate security management integrates with other managerial aspects of IT.
The usual way of throwing BS7799 with some additional security procedures on the table saying ‘thou shall comply’ does bring you success. If security was a house, security policy would be the frame, roof, walls […]

What length is your leash?

Doug Kaye is discussing with Alan Kotok what should be the length of the leash businesses hold their IT services supplier on. Alan thinks that:

“My gut-level business sense tells me third-party Web services will respond better to the integrated value-chain approach than by constructing daily rewards and penalties based on service level agreements. When Web […]

Gartner Soundbites

The confluence in the evolution of sound actionable advice for enterprise decision makers from leading edge analyst firms has brought us a the following insights into network security:
Introduction
…”In this difficult environment, enterprise decision makers need sound, actionable advice more than ever”…
What You Need to Know
“Deep packet inspection firewalls that have rich feature sets and high […]