Daniel Kennedy is the Senior Research Analyst for Information Security for the Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) quantitative research product at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He is responsible for managing all phases of the research process. Dan is an experienced information security professional who has written for both Forbes online and Ziff Davis, has provided commentary to numerous news outlets including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his personal blog Praetorian Prefect was recognized as one of the top five technical blogs in information security by the RSA 2010 Conference.
Prior to 451 he was a Partner in the information security consultancy Praetorian Security, LLC where he directed strategy on risk assessment and security certification. Before that he was Global Head of Information Security for D.B. Zwirn & Co. as well as Vice President of Application Security and Development Manager at Pershing LLC, a division of the Bank of New York.
Daniel holds a Master's of Science degree in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Master's of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University, and a Bachelor's of Science in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University. He has gained certification as a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council, a CISSP, and has a NASD Series 7 license.
Three implications for IT supply chain security are becoming apparent: Suppliers may have to rethink threat models and take the downstream impact of threats more seriously. They may have to consider what it means to expand security visibility into development. But on the demand side of threat mitigation, there may be promise in the 'wisdom of the crowd.'
Last October, Fastly completed its $775m acquisition of Signal Sciences. Within two months, it noted several significant transactions that leverage the new combined offering, matching Fastly products with acquired Signal Science's web application firewall capabilities.
Expectations for production web applications to be largely free of security defects and the pressures of keeping up with release cycles that deploy more frequently than in the past have forced greater collaboration between information security and application development.
451 Research has covered Kount from the point of view of fraud prevention; however, under that umbrella Kount offers a multifaceted approach to bot detection and mitigation for enterprises with sophisticated e-commerce offerings and alongside that, problems to address with bad bot behavior.
A provider that shows up more frequently in 451's research on observability, Dynatrace announced entry into the application security market on December 8 with the release of its Application Security Module, a runtime application self-protection offering.
Remote work at scale compounds an exploding attack surface. Acceleration in third-party cloud and service providers raise new issues for enterprise control. Secure access, an overhaul in security operations, cooperation between cloud pros and security experts, and the impact of ESG are just four themes that could characterize security in 2021 and beyond -- unless a major year-end 2020 incident disrupts everything.
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