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One Year at Gartner!

Believe it or not, but I've been at Gartner for a year. One whole year has passed since that infamous blog post . I don't feel like diving into deep reflections and long contemplations about it, but I wanted to share how it was. During this year, I … learned a lot , and expanded my security knowledge into new areas such as denial of service defense   found out that being an analyst is a lot of fun realized that there are many levels of writing excellence beyond the level that I thought I had … interacted with a lot of smart people both within and outside Gartner helped dozens of our clients – both security vendors and large enterprises - with their security challenges, some simple and some pretty esoteric discovered that a lot of companies are not where our industry pundits and "thought leaders" say they are (“what is more common  today at large organizations, cloud or Windows 2000?”) That's about it - I am really looking forward to my second year!

Monthly Blog Round-Up – July 2012

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Here is my next monthly "Security Warrior" blog round-up of top 5 popular posts/topics this month: “ Simple Log Review Checklist Released! ” is often at the top – the checklist is still a very useful tool for many people. “ On Free Log Management Tools ” is a companion to the checklist ( updated version ) Next is “ SIEM Resourcing or How Much the Friggin’ Thing Would REALLY Cost Me? ” While reading this, also check this presentation . “ On SIEM Services ” appearance on this list reminds me that the Internet has a mind of its own as this post is closely related to what I am working on right now “ Top 10 Criteria for a SIEM? ” came from one of my last projects I did when running my SIEM consulting firm in 2009-2011. Finally, “ Book Review: “UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence: A complete guide to analyst influence” by Richard Stiennon ” made it to the top 5 as well. In addition, I’d like to draw your attention to a few posts from my Gartner blo...