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In a world where “New!” may be the most powerful word in the marketing vocabulary, there are advantages to technologies that had their origins a while ago and have incrementally improved over the years. To me, BigFix is a case in point.
BigFix was born in the late 1990’s and tailored for the computing resource environments [...]

Straight up, I’m not a soft touch for humanitarian appeals. But listening to Amrit’s podcast with Johnny Long, founder of Hackers for Charity struck a very sympathetic chord with me.
What caught my attention was Johnny’s eyewitness description of the impact his work was having on the lives of people who have found themselves on the [...]

After reading this article on SIEM moving to the cloud <here>, it got me wondering… is all this talk of moving functions to the cloud simply a way of making security someone else’s problem?  I worked for a SIEM vendor in the past so I’m somewhat familiar with the technical challenges of aggregating and correlating [...]

Note: This post is the first from Michael Shea, BigFix IT Systems Engineer. We certainly hope it won’t be his last.
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The paper describing the hijacking of the Torpig botnet by the fine folks at UCSB is very engaging, even for those with technical training of less than Olympic caliber. Among the interesting topics covered are [...]

A snapshot from our booth at the Infosec show in London the last week of April. IMO a good old fashioned trade show with plenty customers and prospects with whom to talk. A pleasant contrast to shows whose attendee cadre have become increasingly vendor dominated.

The BigFix presence at an industry conference that we dare not mention because we irritated them so much has been a huge success. The BigFix shuttle bus quickly became the only way to travel from the Moscone Convention Center to downtown San Francisco Hotels in any semblance of luxury and dignity. Those joining us on [...]

BigFix CTO Amrit Williams and Dave Watson, currently CTO of MedeAnalytics, a health care management consulting firm, discuss Watson’s experiences in managing explosive growth of distributed computing assets against a background of escalating regulatory and market-driven initiatives for health care delivery automation.

It’s not surprising to see the last two acquisitions in the NAC world (as discussed here). Managed security providers are coming together with NAC product vendors. I’ve spent time in both markets, so I can see it from both sides. I have to admit that when I first entered the NAC market, it was a [...]