Peter Stephenson

If there is anything that characterizes today's computing environment - beyond virtualization and the techniques that has fostered - it is the pervasiveness of mobile devices.

Being able to address problems at the application layer is a key aspect of protecting the ever-fading perimeter in the enterprise of the future.

A next-generation UTM developer needs to learn from and then forget the past.

Virtualization has been with us in one form or another for a long time, but now that it is a staple of the systems world, it really has come into its own.

While there have been numerous prequels to the current state of vulnerability assessment (VA) tools, the Big Kahuna has been combining traditional VA with traditional penetration testing to get a sort of super tool that covers the entire vulnerability management waterfront.

This year, there is only one Hall of Fame designation, but it is an interesting story because it is the amalgam of two companies.

The crown jewels of any organization is its data, but without applications the data is not useful, says SC Magazine Technology Editor Peter Stephenson.

This product was developed with the idea that executives could measure and report the state of the security tools they were using.

If we didn't care about who sees, damages or alters our data, we wouldn't need to waste millions of dollars on the tools of our trade, says Peter Stephenson, technology editor.

Tools designed particularly for network forensics have some important capabilities not shared by tools whose job is solely to alert on a policy violation.