Senior Analyst

Rob Newby

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Top Risks of IAM Programmes
April 09, 2014
IAM risks fit into 4 programme areas, Executive Support, Business Involvement, Strategy and Technology; and one area of the organisation, People. Each of these areas holds a number of risks which must be managed and controlled. 1. Executive Support Risk 1 – Without executive…
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Why SDCI needs organizational change in IT
February 28, 2014
My last post focused on the challenges and the potential of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and SDCI (Software Defined Computing Infrastructures) for improving Information Security. APIs are being used to control more devices from a central point, bringing agility to networks, virtual…
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Software Defined Networking Security Implications
February 06, 2014
Due to their natural coupling, SDN and virtual networking are often confused, but are not the same thing. Virtual networking is the ability for networks to exist in a virtual state – removing hardware, as with SDN. This already happens in the majority of networks, VLANs being used as a…
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Software Defined Networking Market Implications
January 30, 2014
As part of a series of blogs concentrating on the market of Software-defined infrastructures such as SDN (Software Defined Networking) or SDCI , I am currently looking into SDN, and the implications that it is will have for the network market in general over the coming months. It helps to…
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The World is your Datacentre
November 22, 2013
I’ve worked in Security for many years, specialising in Network and Data Security, largely by chance, following my interests and the market in equal measure. I started with authentication tokens and SSL acceleration devices back in the early 2000s, the latter market mutated into key and…
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Security is not enough
September 02, 2013
Since I have worked in this industry, one trend has always been evident – most IT departments can’t, don’t or won’t pay for the very cutting edge developments in security technology. It’s not that they struggle to keep up with these developments, on the contrary, they are the very people…