Trainer Commmunications Security Practice, under the leadership of VP Mary Van Zandt, wins the monthly “Above & Beyond the Call” award for outstanding work at RSA Conference 2009. Proud to say that I am part of the team along with Shannon Magill.

On a recent bi-coastal media and analyst tour, Trainer Communications caught up with Secure Passage executives in between briefings and they validated the importance of having Trainer’s marketing and communications professionals on their side. Trainer Communications, the premier provider of integrated marketing and high-tech public relations services that create global market leaders, today announced that [...]

I have 45 minutes left before he press room at RSA Conference 2009 closes. Just want to take a few minutes to point out a few highlights I’ve experienced over the past four days. Found threatpost.com to be quite intriguing – I think its good news for the news industry that corporations are stepping in [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – RSA CONFERENCE — Secure Passage today announced that its man-on-the-street survey at RSA Conference 2009 revealed that there is no consensus about spending for IT security. When asked if the downturn in the economy would have negative, positive or no implications for security budgets, the more than 100 respondents were nearly [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – RSA CONFERENCE — Secure Passage today announced that its man-on-the-street survey at RSA Conference 2009 revealed that 72 percent of respondents have not deployed any virtual firewall technology. The survey further reveals that adoption is hindered by a lack of consensus as to the definition of a virtual firewall, increased management [...]

It’s almost time. Next week I will be heavily immersed on behalf of clients and my firm, Trainer Communications, in all things RSA Conference 2009. I am especially excited about the social media activities we are executing for my client Secure Passage. Over the course of event, they are meeting with several key journalists, bloggers [...]

I gave in, after not much thought I purchased a Kindle V2. What the heck, I only have to buy about 20 of the half-priced Kindle books to pay it off. My first purchase – Geoffrey Moore’s classic marketing manifesto “Crossing the Chasm.” I have been meaning to reread the piece for some time and [...]

In 2008, according to Royal Group Services, a data breach damages indemnification provider, 35.7 million identities were compromised and 18 million records were stollen from financial services companies. The company, which specializes in PCI DSS insurance services, further reports that in ’08 companies paid an average of $202 per breached file and that the total [...]

Network World’s Ellen Messmer took the electric grid hacking investigation a few steps further with a great piece today – How serious is threat to power grid? Depends who you ask. In it, she asks a number of experts from different facets of the technology spectrum what their chief concerns are regarding the news of [...]

In 1997 I was working as a communications manager for a major West Coast power company. The first two weeks on the job were spent getting oriented with the company, position, how power flowed from generator to end user, and, finally, on how California’s energy deregulation legislation was opening up countless opportunities for independent power [...]

What are the sure signs that a category is no longer just a buzzword? 1 – Thought leaders in the space form organizations dedicated to it; 2 – Mainstream writers take it on as a beat. Just this week Network World writer Tim Greene announced he’d be switching his newsletter focus to Cloud Security. In [...]

Is Twitter’s breakneck growth causing a backlash? So goes the title of an interesting CNN article about how Twitter participation growth brings on the “Fail Whale” image more often these days. Twitter users who have experienced down moments know the image pops up during these times. To quote the article: The conversational Web site, which [...]

Anyone remember Lee Iacocca? He was the son if Italian immigrants most notable for turning around Chrysler in the 1980′s. He rose to popular fame when he became the point spokesman on all Chrysler TV commercials and then later became even more famous when President Reagan appointed him to head the Statue of Liberty renovation [...]

RSA Conference 2009 has a particular feature I am especially interested in attending, the Innovation Sandbox.  On Monday, April 20, the Sandbox will provide vendors that aren’t necessarily exhibiting with an opportunity to demonstrate their products during a half-day session. To me, breakthroughs in technology are the most exciting feature of my job, one of the reasons [...]

Like the title says … Security Heavy with elements of …. Thought I’d write a little about “life in general” for Friday. One of the things I enjoy about social media is it provides an opportunity to get to know people on a human level. Thanks to blogs, tweets, Facebook etc … I know Jennifer [...]

Just when I thought the toughest part of blogging would be getting hosting set up and learning the Word Press content management platform, it hit me – the writing, oh yea, fresh content. Luckily, I have a passion for writing and security, there is never going to be any shortage of security related content to [...]

Over a year ago I accepted a job at Trainer Communications, a Marketing and Public Relations firm managing foreign and domestic accounts for private and public companies. It is a fantastic place to work – more about that in a later post. I was hired into the Security Practice and was not sure what to [...]