Updated- based on a challenge in email, and redoing some math, I’m going out on a limb and revising my market projections down. My best guess is the market will do closer to $80M this year, unless Q4 is unusually strong.
I’ve been covering the Data Loss Prevention/Content Monitoring and Filtering space pretty much since before it existed and it’s been pretty wild to watch a market grow from it’s inception to early mainstream. It’s also a weird experience to stand on the sidelines and watch as all the incredibly hard work of contacts in various vendors finally pays off.
Sorry it took me so long, but the cert is updated for the next 3 years and set to the correct domain name.
Updated: See </wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ipfw-securosis.txt>. I need to completely thank and acknowledge windexh8er for suggesting this post in the comments on the Leopard firewall post, and providing the starting content. In his (or her) own words:
Updated: See </2007/11/15/ipfw-rules/>.
Thanks to an email from John Baxter via MacInTouch, it looks like Apple posted some documentation on the new firewall that contains some really good news:
Martin returns in this episode as we discuss a bunch of totally unrelated security news, from security camera screen savers to breaking into data centers with movie-style techniques:
My first semi-regular column is up over at Dark Reading, “Lea ing From Tylenol”.
Ignore the background stuff on me in the beginning that I had to write; the meat starts about a third of the way through.
In Part 1 of our series we introduced Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) and discussed some of its use cases. In this post we’ll discuss current technical architectures.
It’s a bit last minute, but I’ll be out in San Francisco next week for a panel at Oracle OpenWorld.
I’m still working on my plans, but the panel is on Wednesday the 14th. I’m trying to decide how long to stay, so if you’re interested in meeting drop me a line…
From the press release:
CUPERTINO, Calif. – November 5, 2007 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vontu, the leader in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions, for $350 million, which will be paid in cash and assumed options. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007, subject to receiving regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.