Remember the post about how big security vendors are moving down the food chain to consolidate their hold on the security market? Well IBM through its partnership with (a much smaller) BigFix has released a desktop security solution that is positioned to enhance endpoint security and “reduce cost”.
What would you do if your security vendor went bankrupt? It is said that the security industry is recession proof but the reality is that companies are cutting costs and that means less spending on security solutions too.
In response to this changing market dynamic the big boys (IBM, Cisco, EMC etc) are repositioning their products to be attractive to smaller budgets.
A very interesting article by Jesper Johansson and Roger Grimes both of Microsoft. It challenges a commonly displayed attitude of pouring scorn on security by obscurity and concludes that
There are pros and cons to any scheme, and the right approach for one organization does not necessarily fit a different organization. In the end, this becomes [...]
Many are the articles suggesting ways by which departments can make the most of shrinking budgets in these hard times. If you are a small company, allocating funds for all the security resources you need can prove very challenging. You need to be smart about security spending. Therefore security tools that just do the work for as little as possible is a ‘must consider’.
I just stumbled upon a book in the works about Beautiful Security. It is being published by O’Reilly and will be available April 2009. Available for pre-order on Amazon now. Apparently it will have many industry experts taking on ‘beautiful’ approach to security.
I’m curious to know what the whole book will be about as I [...]
