Cybersecurity

On a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods covered cryptography, a crucial topic in cybersecurity. To delve into the issue, he spoke with Taher Elgamal, CTO for security at Salesforce. Elgamal was one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book by Fortinet’s CISO, Phil Quade, The Digital […]

July 5, 2020

On a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods covered cryptography, a crucial topic in cybersecurity. To delve into the issue, he spoke with Taher Elgamal, CTO for security at Salesforce. Elgamal was one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book by Fortinet’s CISO, Phil Quade, The Digital […]

July 3, 2020

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Stan Lowe, chief information security officer at a global level for Zscaler, while both were at RSA 2020. This continues a series of interviews Woods conducted that focus on four key questions about cybersecurity. These questions […]

March 23, 2020

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods continues his series of interviews from RSA 2020 by sitting down with Jeff Hussey and Bryan Skene from Tempered. Their conversation focused on Woods’ key cybersecurity questions for 2020, which include: Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to […]

March 16, 2020

On this new episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Eyal Hayardeny from Reblaze. Their conversation occurred at RSA 2020 and focused on cybersecurity platforms. They discussed Woods’ four questions for the conference, which include: Have platforms and cybersecurity been slower to develop than in […]

March 9, 2020

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast with Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research (EAR), Woods speaks with Brendan Hannigan, the CEO and cofounder of Sonrai Security. Sonrai Security is a company that helps govern and secure public cloud platforms. The conversation is part of a series of interviews that occurred at RSA […]

March 6, 2020

On this episode of Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Chris Braden from eSentire. Braden is the head of channels and alliances at the company. He spoke about Woods’ research questions at RSA 2020, which included: What’s blocking comprehensive platforms for cybersecurity? Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to […]

March 4, 2020

The basic idea of a product or a platform in enterprise software is to create a system that can meet many needs. The best products offer some sort of simplification or ease of use so it is possible to get a powerful result without having to master lots of complexity. The best platforms allow many […]

February 27, 2020

Given the state of the cybersecurity landscape here’s an interesting thesis: Managed Services firms will lead the creation of broader, integrated cybersecurity platforms. This idea came out of the podcast interviews I’ve done at RSA 2020 in San Francisco. After talking to Esentire, Reblaze, Tempered, and Sonrai Security, I have made a ton of progress […]

February 26, 2020

What’s Blocking Comprehensive Platforms for Cybersecurity? Here’s my research topic for RSA 2020 in San Francisco. Enterprise software goes through a predictable cycle in which point solutions are gathered into suites and then many suites are unified in platforms. For many domains, this offers customers the benefits of a broad set of integrated capabilities that […]

February 18, 2020