Jon’s Network

I’ve been watching (and selling) Sophos for years. It has become even easier to sell in the past 12 months simply by showing CA or McAfee customers the Sophos management console. Most see pretty quickly how much time it will save them. Sophos’ strategy seems to resonate as well: do more with [...]

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Because the truth is nobody cares about standards - everyone cares about what you can do with interoperable systems.

Amrit wrote recently about The Birth of the Endpoint Protection Platform. Fitting for the guy that wrote about the death of AV by the end of 2007 (3 more months to go!). Amrit believes the [...]

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Patchlink took my advice - sort of. I suggested changing their name to SecureLink after acquiring SecureWave and STAT, but they chose Lumension Security instead.

Their tagline, “Putting Security in a Positive Light”, is a reference to their endorsement of the positive security model they inherited from SecureWave’s Sanctuary, their “application and device [...]

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Jeff Atwood describes how his PC was overwhelmed by spyware and adware after visiting two reputable gaming sites to download some patches. He had recently reinstalled XP and decided to download the game updates without patching the browser and OS. Just two quick sites would be OK right? Well, one of them [...]

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UPDATE: More on the Patchlink name change here

Patchlink has announced that they will acquire SecureWave, which adds endpoint security to their recent acquisition of the vulnerability scanner STAT Guardian (now Patchlink Scan), and their existing prowess at automated patch management. Last Fall, I told Patchlink that Bit9 would be a good buy for them, [...]

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