Category: Security

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of IBM Storage announcements today, which reflect the company’s addition of enhanced data protection to Flash System, showing a focus on security, ransomware, and storage. While the company has some catching up to do, this focus on data protection and a Storage-as-a-Service offering is clearly important to clients and prospects
Check Point expands its Unified Cloud platform to support Alibaba Cloud elevating market awareness of its advanced security, visibility, and compliance capabilities of its cloud security portfolio, especially across multi-cloud environments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Check Point’s integration of its CloudGuard solution with Alibaba Cloud strengthens its overall multi-cloud proposition and provides a marketing edge over rivals as well as how Alibaba Cloud benefits competitively from the Check Point relationship.
In this video vignette from this week’s episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Steven Dickens walk through the recent announcements out of BMC Software. They also discuss the industry as it relates to IT infrastructure management software, top concerns of businesses, especially in light of the recent surge in cyberattacks, and the important role the mainframe plays within organizations — and why keeping it safe from insider threats, among other things, is critically important.
BMC today announced new capabilities aimed at security, facilitating a modern development experience, and promoting an open, collaborative mainframe. Futurum analyst Steven Dickens shares his insights on the relevance and timeliness of these capabilities as well as what’s ahead.
Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the most recent supply chain ransomware attack that has affected thousands of businesses globally over the July 4th weekend.
Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of HPE’s Discover event around the latest zero-trust solution, Project Aurora. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves, new approaches are required to combat the emerging threats. HPE’s zero-trust approach is designed to deliver robust attestation and verification derived through a root-of-trust model at the silicon layer.
Data breaches continue to plague companies and harm consumers. Passwords are too often what we depend upon to keep our data safe, but too often they don't work. A look at password challenges and the role of business and consumers in keeping data more safe.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with HP’s Global Head of Security, Personal Systems, Ian Pratt about the need for better endpoint security solutions and HP’s new security offering.
The EU will introduce a digital wallet initiative ahead of the US, setting a first major milestone for 2022. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard covers the many nuances of that initiative, including Qualcomm’s prescient 2019 updates to its Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform and subsequent security clearance, what’s likely ahead there, as well as whether the EC will back down at all in its crusade against major US tech companies, whose assistance will no doubt be needed here.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman takes on the fear mongering that’s dominated the media about Amazon Sidewalk in the simplest of terms: it’s a big, fat nothing burger. Here’s why.

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