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Whats driving the MSSP craze - critical, but non-core functions are fair game for outsourcing

2008-06-13 03:29:37 by HASH0x8bb419c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...MSSPs. Just today I was reading Neil Roiter's column on the latest acquisition by Perimeter eSecurity. The MSSP acquisition kings have now bought Edgeos, a vulnerability scanning service. I don't really know alot about them, but it seems their vulnerability service does not utilize a distributed or local server at the customers location. I am...
 
Tags: critical, non-core, core, critical activities, non-core activities, activities, security, mssp, outsource core
 
 
 
 
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MSSP and NAC - true love or lust?

2008-05-22 10:51:56 by HASH0x8b2d488 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...MSSP and NAC - True Love For the most part I agree with Grant that NAC is a natural for the managed services space. However, I think for the MSSP (managed security services provider) market specifically it may be beyond their current offering levels. Most MSSP offerings today are focused at the perimeter. They have grown from managed...
 
Tags: nac, nac service, traditional nac, mssp, nac marketplace, mirage, service, mirage blog, mirage networks
 
 
 
 
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Dave Cowan of Bessemer says mid-market is the new battleground for security

2008-03-10 07:36:33 by HASH0x8b554d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...MSSP aimed at mid-market and SMBs. Dave and Bessemer have invested in many security companies over they years and he has a well honed view into the space. His comments are that security is saturated at the top of the pyramid, meaning the Fortune 2000 and large government accounts. He thinks the real opportunity is at the mid-market. Not...
 
Tags: security, dave, dave cowan, mid-market, bessemer, security companies, dave speaks, security talk, brad
 
 
 
 
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Dave Cowan of Bessemer says mid-market is the new battleground for security

2008-03-10 08:32:03 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...MSSP aimed at mid-market and SMBs. Dave and Bessemer have invested in many security companies over they years and he has a well honed view into the space. His comments are that security is saturated at the top of the pyramid, meaning the Fortune 2000 and large government accounts. He thinks the real opportunity is at the mid-market. Not...
 
Tags: security, dave, dave cowan, mid-market, bessemer, security companies, dave speaks, security talk, brad
 
 
 
 
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Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation - MSSPs

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2008-03-02 15:18:59 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...MSSP offering and they were interested in virtualizing Firewalls so that each customer could have their own firewall in the cloud service. They could easily pick up the phone and call Fortinet, NetScreen and others but one concern they had was the sharing of resources and the potential for one shared customers traffic to consume a bunch of...
 
Tags: firewall, virtual firewall, ghz cpu, platform, set, ghz, vmware, set specific maximums, single hardware platform
 
 
 
 
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I'm the security guy. I used to have a security guy, but he died. Now I'm the security guy

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2008-04-22 23:52:53 by HASH0x8adc41c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...MSSP service to help him out. I am going to try and help this fellow out as much as I can, but he has a tall order How many others are out there in the same boat? How many people have had the security role thrust on them, without the training or expertise to make it happen. The greatest tools in the world, won't make up for this lack of...
 
Tags: security, security guy, security products, guy, security professionals, security role thrust, company, move, concierge
 
 
 
 
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I'm the security guy. I used to have a security guy, but he died. Now I'm the security guy

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2008-04-23 00:47:27 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...MSSP service to help him out. I am going to try and help this fellow out as much as I can, but he has a tall order How many others are out there in the same boat? How many people have had the security role thrust on them, without the training or expertise to make it happen. The greatest tools in the world, won't make up for this lack of...
 
Tags: security, security guy, security products, guy, security professionals, security role thrust, company, move, concierge
 
 
 
 
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Is NAC clawing its way up the slope of enlightenment?

2008-05-01 23:14:27 by HASH0x8b78dd4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...MSSP can make money offering a managed NAC service, Richard will jump on the NAC bandwagon with bells on 4. My own observations at Interop, RSA, SANS and other events where I spoke to real live potential customers. I have personally seen a marked upturn in the amount of real NAC projects that we see coming into both our partners and our sales...
 
Tags: nac, nac buzz, bash nac, nac products, nac service, nac market, real nac projects, nac bandwagon, nac grinch
 
 
 
 
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Stiennon says NAC is dead - I must be in heaven!

2008-05-02 22:48:36 by HASH0x8472590 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...MSSP (hey, I hear SaaS is the next big thing), how long this will keep his attention or the powers that be keep him on is anybodys guess. But if past track record is any indication, Richard will hop on the next big thing sometime next year. I mention this because fundamentally I think Richard's attention span or maturation horizon is why he...
 
Tags: nac, solution, nac solution, nac vendors, market, stock market, nac market, richard, richard stiennon