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Social Media Risks: The Basics
By Joan Goodchild
Computerworld
February 2010

You may be a champ at Mafia Wars and Farmville, but what do you know about the security risks of social media sites? Read More

Will Your IT Security Department Jump Ship?
By Joan Goodchild
CSO Online
December 2009 

Signs of a more stable economic climate continue to trickle out. IANS CEO Jack Phillips says savvy CISOs need to now switch from budget cuts to competitive employment. Read More

Is the Economic Downturn Over?
By Amrit Williams
Beyond the Perimeter
December 2009

Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, discusses the outlook on the economy for 2010 with Jack Phillips, co-founder of IANS, the Institute for Applied Network Security. Read More

The Consolidation Game
By Bobbie Johnson
The Guardian
April 2009 

With its $7.4bn deal for Sun, Larry Ellison's Oracle takes a stronger grip on the business software market. Bobbie Johnson asks what's next at Sun - and for other competitors. Read More

Sell the Business on Virtualization Security
By Jack Phillips
April 2009

Virtualization has taken on a life of its own, sweeping across organizations of all sizes and shapes like a perfect antidote to all the inefficiencies in IT. Executive management has been rushing to inject this drug as quickly as possible, viewing all of the costs savings realized through virtualization as free. And in this economic environment, the pressure is particularly high to move quickly and ask questions about security later. Read More

Best Defense
By Robert Celaschi
November 28-December 4, 2008

Jack Phillips and Phil Gardner faced a pair of hurdles when starting their research company, the Institute for Applied Network Security, in 2001. They broke away from the tradition of reports based on surveys, and they didn’t want to share ownership with outside investors. Their initial investment of $16,000 has grown into a $2.9 million company as of last year. Revenue should hit $3.3 million for 2008. Today known simply as IANS, the Boston company sells its research to companies looking to buy information security products. Read More

Partnering for Success
By Sean McFadden
October 24-30, 2008

After many years of working as sales executives for other companies, Greg Dunne and Chris Foran decided to take a risk several years ago by selling themselves — as partners in their own outsourced sales management and business development fi rm, Mansfield Sales Partners LLC. Read More

Security Spending to Grow, Will Differ by Region
By Richard Adhikari
October 13, 2008

Despite grim predictions for IT spending overall, spending on security will continue to grow through 2009 across most industry sectors, according to the Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS). Read More

Working With Regulatory Distraction
By Jack Phillips
August 13, 2008

What can we say about regulatory compliance? The heyday is over. However, the hangover still lingers. Read More

A Knack For NAC
By Tim Scannell
July 14, 2008

Network access and control tactics have traditionally focused on authenticating users and preventing network security breaches. Now, however, efforts are being made to also mitigate the damage when bad things happen to good data resources. Read More

Telework’s Weak Link
By Larry Stevens
July 14, 2008

But Volpi and other security experts say not all agencies are financially or culturally ready to limit teleworkers to agency-owned computers. And some might not need that level of protection. Read More

Regulations Are Just a Security Distraction
By Jack Phillips
July 3, 2008

Full compliance should never be confused with robust security. One does not beget the other and, at times, changes called for by compliance rules can have a detrimental effect on an enterprise's overall security posture. Read More

Beware the Coming of the MAC
By Richard Adhikari
July 2, 2008

Corporate IT staff had better prepare for a headache as the number of Apple Macs in the enterprise grows. Over the past two years or so, users have increasingly brought the Mac into the enterprise. However, IT staff are not prepared to deal with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Macs, either from a management or a security perspective, as the overwhelming majority of desktops in the enterprise are Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows boxes. Now, they will have to change. Read More

Merchants Cope with PCI Compliance
By Richard Adhikari
June 30, 2008

As PCI-DSS 6.6 moves from being a best practice to mandatory, the technology is not as important as a strategic approach. Read More

Sneaking Around Compliance
Mark Hall, On the Mark
June 11, 2008

Government and industry data security regulations make us all safer. That's the theory. The reality? Maybe a little different. Read More