Blog Posts Tagged with "Marketing"
Brand Statements Tell Your InfoSec Story
January 17, 2013 Added by:Steven Fox, CISSP, QSA
Listening to bad brand statements is like sitting through a bad movie or comedy skit. Yes, I am among those who stand politely as a vendor tries to sell me something without bothering to determine what I actually care about. At least I get to learn about bad brand stories...
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The Security Reality of Road Warriors
October 28, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
Marketing and sales professionals will, inevitability, require a cloud-based collaboration processes or they face a potential competitive disadvantage. Therefore, IT executives are best-served by investigating the rate at which their employees are using unsanctioned tools that facilitate potential breaches...
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Marketing to the Cynical, Skeptical, and Jaded
August 24, 2012 Added by:Jack Daniel
Words like engagement and community are overused by charlatans, marketing gurus, and social media experts- but if you cut the crap and actually engage the community, people will pay attention. Influencer is another abused term, but some people have more of a voice in the community than others. Ignoring people who aren’t ready to buy could be a very bad idea...
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UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence
July 23, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
If up and to the right is the desired Magic Quadrant location, how does one get there? For many tech firms, they often are clueless. In this book, Stiennon provides clear direction. For those looking to make the expedition to the land of Gartner, this book is a veritable Berlitz Guide on how to make the journey...
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Security Factions: Roosters and Owls
July 11, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
We have lobbying going on between two factions and all too often, the roosters are the ones being heard with their cry that the apocalypse is upon us, our water supply has been hacked, our power grid is a spiders thread away from utter collapse and youu my friend, are about to be plunged back into a zombie apocalypse...
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Security Vendors: Absit Reverentia Vero
July 09, 2012 Added by:
Vendors are driven to sell and sell at all costs. Product features stagnate, services under perform. We the customers suffer and the security postures of all organizations plummets. Adversaries can spend less on penetration innovation while at the same time more easily bypass our defenses...
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Security Slide Rules
June 29, 2012 Added by:Wendy Nather
First off, there must be a slide talking about The Problem We All Face and that it’s a scary, scary world out there, otherwise I would forget why we’re all here. Next, there must be a slide that includes icons of people, the cloudernet, and either monitors or CPUs. Extra points for creatively drawn bad guys...
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Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Security?
June 18, 2012 Added by:Lee Munson
People who are in the computer security business are using too many scare tactics. Instead of informing the customer properly they are trying to scare them into using the company’s products. That is never a good thing and it is the reason why we have so much of a backlash going on now...
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Booth Babe Challenge: Show Me the Money
June 18, 2012 Added by:Michelle Klinger
The general consensus regarding whether booth babes are appropriate is a resounding NO, yet vendors still find it necessary to use this strategy. Even amidst complaints by conference attendees & public mocking on social media sites, vendors stick to their marketing guns and bust out the busty femaninas...
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The Fear Factor in Information Security
June 13, 2012 Added by:DHANANJAY ROKDE
Vendors are increasingly using the fear factor and coarse tactics to pressure information security managers into deploying rather unnecessary technologies and products. Why have we never heard of a vendor pitch claiming responsibility of failure to protect a company’s infrastructure?
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Big Brother Likes Big Data: Balancing Privacy with Innovation
June 05, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Big Data and associated analytics can be used to improve business and customer experiences and bring innovation and medical breakthroughs. However, organizations must make sure they don’t cross that line of customization and business improvements into creepiness and full-blown privacy invasion...
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Flamer: I Can Haz Propaganda...
May 31, 2012 Added by:J. Oquendo
Studies on malware by vendors are not being done for anything other than being able to state: "We can defend you from MalwareX if you purchase Product Y." This is the reality of it. What better mechanism to do so than to paint the boogeyman as a rogue country. After all, countries spend millions on security...
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The Virtual Sky is Falling!
May 28, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
Opportunists are using an alarmists strategy, bolstered by bloated opinions, to get you to buy their stuff. IT Sec businesses and vendors are not objective sources for security trends, threats and/or events. They are advertisements...
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Is Frictionless Sharing Like Digital Privacy Cancer?
May 25, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
In a nutshell, “frictionless sharing” basically is a passive service that allows apps to automatically share your activity to a very wide number of entities and locations as you visit different websites, view videos and photos, listen to music, read ads and articles, and so on...
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Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track with New Policy
May 21, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
This doesn’t mean Twitter will stop collecting all data on you. They’ll still be able to collect aggregate data about your browsing habits for analytics and security, but they won’t set a cookie and they won’t use data to suggest users to you or for tailoring your Twitter experience...
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Infosec is Not a Religion
May 14, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Infosec is not a religion. There are no Cardinals, there are no Bishops, there are only a bunch of people who want their opinion to be heard and listened to ad nauseum. It’s as simple as that, and if you start clothing it in the robes of ecclesiastical rhetoric, you FAIL...
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