Author Archives: Ellery Bledsoe

New Gartner Research – The Rise of Cloud Service Brokerage

The role of enterprise IT with respect to cloud services is rapidly expanding.  Whether the broad range of activities that the enablement of cloud services entails is managed internally or externally, cloud service brokerage is increasingly expected to be within … Read more >

The “Intel” on Intel is… We do software! by Andy Thurai

Are you surprised? I start off most of my presentations/conferences with the following question: How many of you know that Intel ‘does’ Software? Very few hands usually go up, and that is exactly the challenge I have today in getting the … Read more >

Application-Aware Firewalls by Andy Thurai

You may have heard this term recently and wondered what it meant. When it comes to security, everyone thinks of Firewalls, Proxies, IPS, IDS, Honeypots, VPN devices, email security and even Web security, but most people don’t think in terms … Read more >

Perfection Series: Forgotten Data in your Logs (Log Redaction Service) by Andy Thurai

From a business standpoint, leaking sensitive information into your logs is not only bad, but could lead to compliance, liability, and risk disaster sooner than you think. While there are solutions, including DLP, out there to inspect the data traffic and … Read more >

Perfection Series: “Data Loss Prevention – Taking it to the Next Level with McAfee DLP Integration in Stopping Data Leakage” by Andy Thurai

Intel recently announced that by combining the strength of Intel® accelerated processing and McAfee® enterprise-level security we are taking our solutions to the next level and help our customers to extend their applications far beyond the traditional perimeters in a … Read more >

What You Need to Know about API Security

Since the growth of APIs “hockey-sticked” around 2005, the proliferation of web-based APIs has spanned every industry and vertical from e-commerce to map services to enterprise. APIs like that of Twitter, Amazon, and Netflix garner billions of API calls every … Read more >