Posted by Joe Franscella – 12-28-09 – The appointment of Howard Schmidt to the position of White House Cybersecurity Coordinator is further indication that President Obama’s administration acknowledges that effective cybersecurity can mean the difference between life and death. The administration should look at cybersecurity in this way, after all, cyberspace provides criminals and terrorists [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]