LATEST INTELLIGENCE
THE SECRETS OF EVALUATING
SECURITY PRODUCTS
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I
’ve been watching the anti-malware industry for
a long time as a user, service provider and now
cyber security industry analyst. For many years
it was the only line of cyber defence and most of the
folks I know from “back in the day” have a love hate
relationship with their anti-virus provider. Les Correia
and Migo Kedem are both heavy weights in the anti-
malware industry and their collaborative efforts have
produced the book you are reading now. To be honest
I'm not even sure folks read introductions anymore
as the sentiment is "why bother when it's really the
content I am after?"
Fair point, but if you are reading this now, I think
it's time to explain just how important this book
is from a business perspective. For me I believe
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we have evolved from a very two-dimensional
relationship to cyber space to a three-dimensional
cyber environment. Most small & medium business
were architected along the lines of "inside the
firewall" = things I need to care about and "outside
the firewall" = Things I don't need to care about
– a very 2-D space. Along came SaaS and cloud
hosting and we find ourselves plunged into the
deep end of the pool. The third-dimension is really
about "someone else's computer that I need to
care about". Those in enterprise architecture The
Secrets of Evaluating Security Products 4 have been
living in 3-D space for some time with data-centre
architecture but there is a new twist: "someone
else's computer that I need to care about and have
limited control over" 3-D. n
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