Archive for the ‘Gartner’ Category

Vendor Rating: F5 Networks

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F5 continues to outpace its rivals in application delivery; however, to fully capitalize on its strategic footprint in the data center, the company needs to sharpen its focus on software-based solutions and leverage its current investments in adjacent markets.

Four Hot Issues From Def Con 18: Traditional Threats Remain, but New Problems Come to the Fore

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The content shown at Def Con 18 stays focused on traditional network threats, while the attackers now have numerous "new" vectors at their disposal. Security and IT risk managers must remain diligent and informed on new threats and old.

How Enterprise Architects Should Use Gartner’s IT Market Clock

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Enterprise architects should use Gartner's IT Market Clock to timestamp and forecast the life cycle of new and current IT assets.

Security and Risk Management as a Social Science

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As technical security controls are increasingly integrated into the infrastructure fabric, the focus of chief information security officers will continue to shift toward the behaviors, attitudes and culture of the human stakeholders of the enterprise.

Pay Attention to Context-Aware Computing in Your Mobile Security Strategy

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Context-aware evaluation criteria will help IT planners select mobile security practices that will be more successfully adopted by end users.

How Enterprise Architects Should Use Gartner’s IT Market Clock

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Enterprise architects should use Gartner's IT Market Clock to timestamp and forecast the life cycle of new and current IT assets.

HP’s Acquisition of Fortify Confirms Trend Among SLC Vendors

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HP's acquisition of Fortify Software offers another example of the trend of application security technologies consolidating into the hands of large software life cycle vendors that seek broader security coverage.

Combine Content and Workflow to Optimize a GRC Solution for Your Company

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With two distinct types of governance, risk and compliance platforms, organizations are at a loss regarding whether to take a workflow approach or a content approach. We suggest a way to combine them.

MarketScope for Enterprise Records Management

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As more organizations implement enterprise records management to address their compliance and e-discovery requirements, choosing the right solution to meet their needs is imperative. Records management solutions need to support the expanding diversity of content types and their locations.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to EA Tools, Part 1

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EA teams often struggle with the decision of if and when to make a major investment in repository-based enterprise architecture tools. In this first part of a look at EA tools, we consider the non-repository-based tools that are available to EA teams with recommendations of how and when to invest in more-complex EA tools.