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Peter Stephenson

 
Peter Stephenson, technology editor, SC Magazine
 

Recent Articles

Access control

December 01, 2011

As long as we want to allow some users access and deny others, these products will be with us.
 

Encryption

December 01, 2011

We would be hard-pressed to find many product categories in the security space that did not have some encryption component associated with them.
 

Forensic tools

December 01, 2011

Each year, we look at the burgeoning field of digital forensics and try to figure out which companies are doing the heavy lifting in terms of innovation.
 

Infrastructure

December 01, 2011

The infrastructure is everything about the enterprise that supports the applications and, therefore, protecting the data means protecting the infrastructure.
 

Mobile device protection

December 01, 2011

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.
 

Perimeter defense

December 01, 2011

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.
 

UTM

December 01, 2011

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

Virtualization

December 01, 2011

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.
 

Vulnerability testing

December 01, 2011

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.
 

Hall of Fame

December 01, 2011

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