Security Platform

The organisation I work for is rationalising it's security product set across the globe. At present we have silo IT Security organisations with different products in different countries. We have elected to simplify licensing and support by rationalising onto common products and processes, all of which is pretty obvious and straight forward.

My question (as my team will have to define the platform) : what are the primary considerations we should keep in mind when we select the products? My current focus is on ease of administration, ease of integration, cost reductions - but that really is based on the premise that the products will work equally well.

Thoughts?

Puzzled about electron film clip

In my aimless wandering's around the net I came across a film clip of an electron.

But I'm confused: surely the existence of the clip violates Heissenberg's uncertainty principle?

See: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/382/1007382/first-film-electron-taken

Beginnings

Late in 2008 a friend and I created a Podcast focusing on IT Security in South Africa. Unlike the first world, this is a fairly new endeavour here: we seem to be the first to do this locally. We have the interesting experience of marketing a technology which seems to be still little understood or used, while consuming international content.

At this stage we're only publishing monthly so we've had little feedback - although this is a small community and we have found strangers already commenting on what they've heard, so we are reaching SOME listeners.

I hope to use this blog to talk about our experiences, and give a sense of what it takes to create and maintain content in the nether-regions, as well as comment on the content and on ITand IT Security itself.

And of course, interested in seeing where this leads in 2009.

The podcast can be found, by the way, at http://www.theitsp.com