Posts By Bob Gourley

If You Could Pick One Thing For Congress To Do Regarding CyberSecurity, What Would It Be?

A friend who is a former Representative and a respected advisor of many senior politicians recently asked me for some thoughts on cyber legislation. In general, people ask my thoughts because of time I’ve spent working strategic cyber issues in the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) or because of my history at DoD’s Joint TaskRead… Read more »

Blog Talk Radio with @thedodgeretort and @bobgourley

John Dodge (@thedodgeretort) and Bob Gourley (@bobgourley) review the Enterprise CIO Forum’s (@ECIOForum) top 10 Cloud Security Tweets of the week in the following podcast. Tweets selected by John included: zdnet: Will cloud security ever be sufficient? http://t.co/vLJjhFAY cloudsa: (ISC)² and The Cloud Security Alliance Expand Cloud Security Offerings to their Memberships… http://t.co/c80DntRK chrispirillo: HowRead… Read more »

Evolving Approaches to Cyber Threats

Bob Gourley and HP’s Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security continued to discuss emerging security issues at the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011, exploring problems with traditional approaches to enterprise security. Andrzej began by defining the customary enterprise security approach. We’ve been taking a very reactive stance to cybersecurity, focusing onRead… Read more »

How Apple is Impacting Enterprise Software Development

Editor’s note: This post by Derek Singleton of Software Advice reviews more extensive work at: Three Ways Apple is Influencing Enterprise Software Development. These days, apps aren’t just about amazingly addictive games like Angry Birds or streaming your favorite tunes from your Grooveshark app. As the working world becomes increasingly mobile, apps are becoming anRead… Read more »

Nominating Technologies For Review At CTOlabs.com

Our sister site, CTOlabs.com, is a place where we capture information, evals, concepts and references of use to technologists. We write far more about specific technologies and companies there, which allows us to keep CTOvision.com focused on more timely topics. CTOvision.com is for current context on tech, CTOlabs.com is for reference and examination of concepts.Read… Read more »

Android Devices now number 190M Worldwide

In Google’s Q3 earnings call, they released that there are 190M Android Devices Worldwide. Google’s mobile revenue is now up to $2.5B over the past 12 months. They are adding over 575K users a day, an incredible rate of adoption. The Motorola purchase, which was seen as Google’s first foray into device manufacture, has beenRead… Read more »

Is it time to buy a new iPhone 4S without LTE?

The iPhone 4S is the exact same form factor as the 4 Apple just released the details on the iPhone 4S, for those expecting the 5, they were extremely underwhelmed, and Apple’s stock has taken a bit of a tumble. The updates were all internal and all on the back-end. This has made quite aRead… Read more »

Yesterday’s Security Doesn’t Work for Today’s Threats

Another discussion from the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011 featured Bob Gourley and HP’s Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security, discussing the evolving enterprise threat environment and how it can be mitigated. Bob and Andrzej agreed on three major emerging challenges in enterprise cybersecurity. The first is simply the nature ofRead… Read more »