Alan Shimel is Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, in which role he helps shape the company's business and technology strategy. Alan is on the Open Source Snort Rules Consortium Board of Directors and is also responsible for StillSecure's participation in open source initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group and OS2A.
In this session Alan Shimel will discuss trends in open source, focusing on
the benefits and challenges of using open source for network security and
with regulatory compliance. He will outline the many advantages to using open
standards (which includes open source) in product development, especially in
network security where integration has become the "holy grail." In addition
he will discuss why open source is no longer in the age of innocence,
especially in security markets such as intrusion detection/prevention and
vulnerability management, and provide recommendations for taking advantage of
both open source and hybrid security solutions as they continue to evolve.
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Alan Shimel's Blog
It is easy to dismiss Don Dodge's piece asking 'Do You Really Want Your Data
in the Cloud?' as a Microsoft guy defending their turf. He uses some recent
uptime problems at Amazon, Twitter, Disqus and Typepad to show that keeping
your information in the cloud and relying on the net to deliver your
applications gives you less control, less security, less scalability and le... (more)
Alan Shimel is Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, in which role he helps shape the company's business and technology strategy. Alan is on the Open Source Snort Rules Consortium Board of Directors and is also responsible for StillSecure's participation in open source initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group and OS2A.
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