On this episode of Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, Dan Woods, principal and founder of EAR, spoke with Rick Tracy, the chief security officer of Telos. Their conversation centered on the EAR research mission called “Creating a Balanced Cybersecurity Portfolio.” Tracy has significant hands-on experience as a chief information security officer executive, […]
On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about patching with Renee Tarun, VP of Information Security at Fortinet. She is one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade entitled The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the […]
In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Mike McConnell about a crucial topic in cybersecurity, authentication. McConnell is the former head of the NSA, and an expert in cybersecurity, especially in getting governments and nations to do a better job. He is also one of more […]
Sometimes, even for the most skeptical technology industry observers, it’s hard not to get caught up in the hype about the cloud. After all, the cloud offers so much adaptability, flexibility, and power for companies that at least on paper, it makes sense for them to leverage it to the greatest degree possible. But in […]
In this edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about connectivity and the IoT with Brian Talbert, the head of networking and connectivity for Alaska Airlines. Talbert is one of more than 30 contributors to a new book from Fortinet’s CISO, Phil Quade, called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard […]
On this edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Fortinet CISO Phil Quade about his new book, The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang puts forth a big history-style explanation of cybersecurity, a narrative similar to that […]
Phil Quade, Fortinet’s CISO, led a number of top security executives in an important exercise drawn from national security. The “100 Coins” exercise is a fascinating way to get insight into how business and security leaders view their priorities in cybersecurity. The exercise asks each participant to imagine they have 100 coins and then asks […]
What if’s can be a powerful way for people to understand what is meaningful to them. That’s one of the main reasons I so enjoyed Fortinet’s “100 Coins” exercise about cybersecurity. Taking a page from national security exercises, Fortinet CISO Phil Quade asked a number of top security executive to imagine that they had 100 […]
Summary: Fortinet and Early Adopter Research have extended Fortinet’s 100 Coins research into designing and optimizing a cybersecurity portfolio. The resulting report captures detailed thinking from three leading CISOs about how to make the difficult decisions and tradeoffs when allocating a fixed amount of money across a portfolio. This article summarizes Fortinet CISO Phil Quade’s […]
In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast for Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with John Maddison, the EVP of products for Fortinet, a leading cybersecurity company. Designing Enterprise Platforms focuses on how to use products and other technology to create a platform to solve a problem. In this case, the […]
