Cloud & Telecom Security

Last week, Symantec(NASDAQ:SYMC) acquired the security businesses of VeriSign (excluding iDefense). There have been tons of news reports and comments by market observers and analysts.  In general, given that both negative and positive comments are valid, the below chart gave a different perspective to evaluate the acquisition strategy of Symantec.

It’s a 5 year stock price chart of Symantec, with comparison against that of CA(NASDAQ:CA), McAfee(NYSE:MFE), and Nasdaq.

The overall changes in 5 years are:

• Symantec down by: -35.14%
• CA down by: -30.60%
• McAfee up by: +21.87%
• while Nasdaq up by: +9.67% Read more…

This article is a good summary on recent offerings for warming-up managed security services (MSS). Based on the large picture of out-sourcing of IT, security has been one topic to be managed by a MSS provider (MSSP). What are those MSSPs offering? How can I choose from various service portfolio ? Joel gave us a good summary by his Managed security services: What’s right for you? Read more…