• Start-up tackles advanced persistent threats on Microsoft, Apple computers

  By Ellen Messmer | 18 June, 2013 10:56

  Start-up CrowdStrike today made available its first product, called Falcon, designed to detect and block stealthy infiltrations of Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh-based endpoint machines and servers.

• Australian security technology spend outpacing rest of world: Gartner

  By David Braue | 13 June, 2013 14:44

  Australian organisations are snapping up security technology and services much faster than their peers around the world, according to new figures from Gartner.

• Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public Cloud

  By Ellen Messmer | 12 June, 2013 20:40

  Security monitoring -- the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) -- can be done in some public Cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public Cloud services, it's time to think about doing it.

• Global security market will grow to $US86 billion by 2016, Gartner predicts

  By John E Dunn | 11 June, 2013 18:44

  The global market for security and services will rise to $67.2 billion (£45 billion) in 2013, with further stellar growth taking that as high as $86 billion by 2016, Gartner analysts at the firm's Security & Risk Management Summit have predicted.

• Retired admiral calls NSA leaks by Edward Snowden a 'data breach' and 'crisis'

  By Ellen Messmer | 11 June, 2013 16:05

  Adm. Mike Mullen, U.S. Navy (retired), called the leaks coming from former CIA employee Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency's role in intelligence collection a "huge breach" that undermines the country's security.

• Gartner reveals Top 10 IT security myths

  By Ellen Messmer | 11 June, 2013 22:03

  When it comes to information security, there are a lot of "misperceptions" and "exaggerations" about both the threats facing businesses and the technologies that might be used to protect their important data assets, according to Gartner analyst, Jay Heiser.

• China biggest, but not the only country engaged in cyberespionage

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 February, 2013 11:09

  China is by far the most aggressive, but not the only, country attempting the sort of extensive cyberespionage described in security firm Mandiant's dramatic report, released this week.

• 12 hybrid security products to watch

  By Christine Burns | 11 February, 2013 06:19

  Securing a hybrid cloud is not the same thing as deploying hybrid security products.

• Security Manager's Journal: A reality check for the department's maturity

  By Mathias Thurman | 05 November, 2012 11:15

  An assessment of the information security department shows that it has a lot of growing up to do yet.

• Dealing with disaster

  By Tim Mendham | 06 September, 2010 10:08

  Earthquakes? Volcanoes? Pandemics? Tsunamis? Are these the stuff of business continuity? Gartner has issued several papers covering major disasters such as the Iceland volcano eruption and its impact on business travel, admitting that “few, if any, businesses plan for a volcanic ash disruption scenario”, which is probably the understatement of the year.

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