On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast of Early Adopter Research (EAR), Dan Woods, the founder and principal analyst at Early Adopter Research speaks with Steven Mih, the CEO of a new company called Alluxio. Alluxio is a company that comes out of the AMPLab at UC Berkeley, which brought the world Spark […]
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 a recent edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested […]
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