If a vendor is trumpeting their VC funding rather than their sales numbers, be wary. I’ve learned this the hard way. Mike Fratto at the NWC Blog reflects on the Lockdown closure and the sudden disappearance of VC funded startups: That’s a very real risk and one of the reasons why funding announcements and customer [...]
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Quick and Dirty Vendor Analysis
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Lockdown Networks · NAC
Lockdown Networks Gone
March 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Lockdown closed their doors yesterday. This is sad, painful, yet inevitable for many companies. I mentioned Lockdown a year ago. No one can spend more than they earn forever. Not individuals, not companies, and not governments.
Tags: NAC
Why Patchlink Needs to Change Their Name
June 17th, 2007 · No Comments
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, [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Endpoint Security · Malware · Marketing · NAC · Patch Management · Patchlink · Positive Security Model · Proactive Security · Security
Lockdown’s NAC Morph
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Interesting post by Alan Shimel of Stillsecure. I guess Lockdown Networks marketing guy said at RSA how great Lockdown is because it is a purpose-built NAC appliance and Alan called him on it, as did Mitchell Ashley, saying that Lockdown was originally a vulnerability scanner. My own experience with Lockdown from a reseller’s perspective confirms [...]
Tags: NAC