Shaun Donaldson

The hardest part about security has always been that it is an insurance sale. Whether acting as a consultant, part of an internal security...

The possibility of achieving security that is comparable between public cloud and private datacenters has been around for an IT lifetime (I use metric...

Public cloud provides a wide spectrum of services, from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform (PaaS), through to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). SaaS is likely the most familiar, since...

The idea of viewing security from the endpoint out is part of having defense-in-depth, or layered security. This has a couple of pretty-straightforward advantages....

It is no secret that small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) have very different ways of using IT when compared with large enterprises. Virtualization, public cloud,...

Quick, what’s the hardest part of being a security pariah? None of the other pariahs want to be seen with you. Though a joke,...

Since Edward Snowden started dishing on US intelligence practices, especially around the program known as PRISM, there have been folks spreading doom and gloom...

What is it about public cloud that breaks traditional endpoint security? First, let’s consider how traditional endpoint anti-malware ended-up where it is today. In...

Being Quick to Deliver, Anticipate, and Meet the Needs of Customers is an Enviable Ability for any Organization. Can your IT and Security Keep-up?

Traditionally, security teams have an on-again, off-again relationship with infrastructure and operations teams. I think most folks who have worked with, or within, IT...

When the subject of public cloud computing comes-up, it is inevitable that the concept of ‘risk’ soon follows. Often, the ‘risk’ of public cloud...

In security, we talk about trade-offs all the time. Recent events have highlighted that whether or not we are doing it consciously, we are...