Posted by Joe Franscella, 3-5-2010: Again, I had an excellent, educational experience at the RSA Conference. I run into editors, bloggers and analysts I know from time to time at the show and always ask them the same question, anything new, exciting or cutting-edge? Invariably, I get yes and no responses but this year I [...]

Posted by Joe Franscella, 11-17-09 – Anyone who’s ever brought a client in front of Mike Rothman for a briefing knows two things: 1.) Prepare the client to tell the truth; 2.) Prepare the client to hear the truth. Although a lot of times clients don’t realize it at first, the toughest briefings — which [...]

Posted By Joe Franscella – 10-10-09 – Back in August, the New York Times published an article written by Ellen Messmer out of IDG’s Network World, titled: Security Start-Up Rohati Extends Access-Control Gear to the Cloud. In it, she says that John Burke of  Nemertes Research stated: ….Nemertes in its research has found that fewer [...]

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 [...]