Nick Selby led The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice (ESP), which provided objective analysis of enterprise security trends and business. Nick also served as a 451 Group Vice President, leading the coordination of 451 analysts' research methodologies and processes, and the process by which 451 Group long form reports were assigned, created, peer-reviewed and published.
Nick is on the faculty of the Institute for Applied Network Security, and he speaks regularly on issues of enterprise security including the RSA Conference, AGC Technology Conference, IANS, the Security Standard, CSO Interchange, SANS WhatWorks and other conferences. Prior to joining The 451 Group in October, 2005, Nick worked as an IT security consultant to small and midsized firms subject to regulatory compliance and strict confidentiality.
Based in Eastern Europe and Europe from 1990 to 2004, Nick spent a decade covering various emerging technologies, including open source and wireless technologies, and software piracy. He was Editor at Large for Amsterdam-based Tornado Insider/Tornado Investor, and has reported on technology and tech-based financial news for the International Herald Tribune.
An instrument-rated pilot, Nick published an online pilot resource, Flyguides, from 2001-2005. Nick is also an avid Linux hacker and member of the Capital District Linux Users Group, and a PHP/MySQL enthusiast.
The Tampa, Florida-based company consults for very large organizations and government agencies on setting up security-operations centers and getting more bang for their buck in enterprise security information and log management.
The Israeli vendor of anti-data-leakage products, long a strong player in the port and device control space, is diversifying its offering to go for full data loss prevention. Is it too little, too late?
The June update includes Cloudburst, an exploit that lets users break out of a virtual host. VMware has patched the bug, but the commercial release of this exploit is a reminder that virtsec is increasingly important.
The company specializes in a newly emerged subsector around enterprise security information management deployment – enterprise security operations centers, once the domain of professional services arms from vendors and consultants.
The log management vendor has raised an additional $8.8m in a series D extension led by Focus Ventures with participation from existing LogLogic and Exaprotect investors. The round brings total funding to over $58m.
Enterprise security information management vendor ArcSight has announced two significant developments: ArcSight Express, an appliance version of its ESM flagship, and cooperation with Cisco to get location data as an event source.
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