Designing Enterprise Platforms

In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Mike McConnell about a crucial topic in cybersecurity, authentication. McConnell is the former head of the NSA, and an expert in cybersecurity, especially in getting governments and nations to do a better job. He is also one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff, and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang book puts forth a big history style explanation of cybersecurity. Phil Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to im

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about connectivity and the IOT with Brian Talbert, the head of networking and connectivity for Alaska Airlines. He was one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet’s CISO Phil Quade, called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Phil Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have arisen because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated in the design of the internet. Talbert is an expert in networking and connectivity and he spoke with Woods about what he can teach cybersecurity professionals. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on implementing high value use cases with multi-product platforms. He played the role of editor in Phil Quade’s book, which cam

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about patching with Renee Tarun, VP of Information Security at Fortinet. She is one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade entitled The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang puts forth a big history style explanation of cybersecurity. In the book Phil Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Phil Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Tarun is an expert in patching and monitoring real time cybersecurity operations as well. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of EarlyAdopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high-value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. He played the role of editor for

On a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods covered cryptography, a crucial topic in cybersecurity. To delve into the issue, he spoke with Taher Elgamal, CTO for security at Salesforce. Elgamal was one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book by Fortinet’s CISO, Phil Quade, The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang book puts forth a history-style explanation of cybersecurity and it proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Phil Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Taher is an expert in cryptography and he spoke about what cybersecurity professionals should know about cryptography. Woods, a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, played a role as editor for Phil Quade’s book which came out in preview in April

On this edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Fortinet CISO Phil Quade about his new book, The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang puts forth a big history-style explanation of cybersecurity, a narrative similar to that of Guns, Germs, and Steel or Sapiens, two popular big history books. In the book, Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. EAR’s Dan Woods is technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. The Early Adopter team played the role of editor for Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate conference in April, 2019 and wi

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested in. This podcast series looks at various ways of understanding technology and how to combine technology to create platforms to solve vital problems for the enterprise. There probably is no more vital problem than how to actually get your data infrastructure correct. Their conversation covered: * 3:00 - How companies are trying to save the data lake * 17:00 - The need for open source and fast query speed * 29:00 - Why an open source project is not a product

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, “Designing Enterprise Platforms,” EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with MapR’s CTO Ted Dunning. Designing Enterprise Platforms is a podcast about the deeper issues involved in creating big victories in enterprise technology. MapR is a company that has been around for most of the Hadoop era and has always taken the point of view that Hadoop was a great infrastructure that needed to be improved. MapR makes these improvements through the file system and then layering on a variety of other components. Their conversation covered: * 3:55 - The vision for MapR * 9:00 - What executives shouldn't know about their data systems * 14:30 - Why naming data is so important * 21:00 - Why data logistics are easier with a data fabric

In this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods explored the top of robotic process automation (RPA). Woods spoke with Allan Anderson, director of enterprise solutions at IPsoft, one of the leading vendors in a space that includes RPA, conversational AI, and low code. RPA has become popular as companies have tried to expand automation throughout the front office. We’ve had many solutions focused on the back office but RPA is explicitly focused on helping expand automation to people who are usually using software. Many different systems can be tied together using these methods. Their conversation covered: * 2:30 - The core dogmas behind RPA * 7:30 - The range of IPSoft's solutions using automation * 23:00 - How IPSoft's Amelia can help companies * 31:30 - Technology leverage created by automation

In this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Paul Vian, SVP of sales, and marketing, and Bill Saltys, SVP of alliances from Apps Associates. Apps Associates is a leading firm that helps companies migrate their Oracle applications and databases to different platforms. The conversation centered on EAR’s escape hatch from Oracle research mission which focuses on educating people about the choices they have when they manage their Oracle relationship. Woods, Vian, and Saltys discussed how to navigate an Oracle migration journey in the lowest risk, highest productivity way. Their conversation covered: * 4:30 - The findings of Apps Associates' E-Book * 11:30 - Customer demand for moving to the cloud * 19:00 - The stages of migrating to the cloud * 21:00 - What are the benefits of moving Oracle to the cloud?

In this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Leanne Waldal, a leading technology researcher who understands how to create programs and manage research and analytics departments to support product development and design. Her career has spanned many different areas including user experience research. The Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast focuses on understanding how to create platforms that serve users inside and outside of companies. Their conversation covers: * 4:30 - User excitement leads to better product adoption * 13:45 - Is A/B testing part of research? * 22:30 - How do you make research successful in businesses of all sizes? * 31:00 - The best way to start with research

In this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods covers the topic of site reliability engineering. Site reliability engineering is a practice that rose up in the internet giants to help them create highly reliable, high performant, but also fast moving systems. It is essentially an extension of the dev ops movement. To delve into the topic, we spoke with Ashar Rizqi and Lyon Wong, the founders of a company called Blameless. Blameless takes site reliability engineering practices and productizes them. Their conversation covers: * 2:00 - The story of the creation of Blameless * 13:00 - The history of site reliability engineering * 22:30 - What a blameless culture looks like * 36:45 - Escaping a culture of blame

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast for Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with John Maddison, the EVP of products for Fortinet, a leading cybersecurity company. Designing Enterprise Platforms focuses on how to use products and other technology to create a platform to solve a problem. We at Early Adopter Research believe in what we call research missions, which are descriptions of high value use cases. In this case, the research mission this podcast is related to is creating a balanced cybersecurity portfolio. In this podcast, Woods and Maddison talk about three topics, starting with SD WAN technology, which is helping companies solve problems that are related to zero trust and perimeterless issues. They also cover security-driven networking, and end with the arrival of the edge and how companies are going to secure both what they have in data centers and in the cloud, but also what is increasingly becoming an important part of almost every company’s infrastructure,

In this latest episode of the Early Adopter Research podcast at RSA 2019, Dan Woods spoke with Jamil Jaffer, VP of strategy and partnerships for IronNet. They covered Woods’ three big cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as other pressing topics in the cybersecurity sphere. * :30 - What IronNet does * 7:30 - Is cybersecurity pruning possible? * 12:30 - How will cloud migration impact cybersecurity? * 17:45 - The need to educate boards about threats

In Early Adopter Research’s continuing series on cybersecurity from the RSA 2019 conference, Dan Woods spoke with Rick Tracy, chief security officer for Telos. Woods asked his three big cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as exploring the landscape of cybersecurity in general. Their conversation covers: * :50 - Telos' fit in the cybersecurity landscape * 6:30 - What does zero trust mean in practice? * 12:00 - The expanding world of cybersecurity products * 20:30 - The impact of the CIA's decision to adopt the cloud

In the latest episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Carolyn Crandall, the chief deception officer of Attivo Networks, while both were at the RSA 2019 Conference. Their conversation covered Woods’ three big cybersecurity questions for the year, and Crandall also explained the position of Attivo Networks in the cybersecurity landscape. They covered: * 1:00 - The value of deception technology * 7:15 - Can companies really build their own zero trust technology stack? * 12:00 - Pruning cybersecurity * 18:00 - Avoiding throwing more technology at cybersecurity problems

Continuing the series of interviews Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research conducted at RSA 2019, in this installment, he spoke with Rajarshi Gupta, VP of AI at Avast Software, a cybersecurity vendor. Woods and Gupta covered key cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as discussing Avast Software’s place in the market. Their conversation covered: * 1:00 - Avast's place in the cybersecurity marketplace * 6:30 - How to ensure the right people have the right access * 7:15 - Is portfolio pruning possible in cybersecurity? * 16:45 - What models should companies be using to train their AI-based cybersecurity?

At RSA 2019 in San Francisco, Dan Woods of the Early Adopter Research Podcast met with a number of cybersecurity leaders. In this interview, he sat down with Grant Bourzikas, the CISO of McAfee, one of the major vendors in the cybersecurity space. They covered Woods’ three major cybersecurity questions for the year, as well as exploring McAfee’s place in the cybersecurity landscape. The conversation included: * 3:10 - McAfee's product portfolio * 6:30 - What does zero trust look like in practice * 13:00 - Can companies prune their cybersecurity portfolios? * 20:00 - The importance of using a product the way it was intended to be used

In the next installment of our series on conversations Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods had about cybersecurity at RSA 2019, this podcast is an interview he had with Illumio’s Andy Rubin, the company’s co-founder and CEO, and PJ Kirner, the company’s co-founder and CTO. Woods asked about his three key cybersecurity questions for the year, as well as having his guests explain Illumio’s fit in the cybersecurity landscape. The interview included: * 3:00 - The need for segmentation in cybersecurity * 10:00 - What CISOs should do with zero trust * 17:30 - Managing risk in cybersecurity * 24:20 - Improving operational discipline in cybersecurity * 35:00 - Managing cyber insurance

At RSA 2019, Dan Woods from Early Adopter Research spoke with Sam McLane, the CTSO of Arctic Wolf for the EAR Podcast. They covered Woods’ three key cybersecurity questions for 2019 and discussed how to create a balanced cybersecurity portfolio. Their conversation included discussion of: * 2:20 - Arctic Wolf's place in the cybersecurity landscape * 4:00 - What does zero trust mean in reality? * 12:30 - How companies are trying to combat the lack of cybersecurity talent * 17:00 - How is cloud migration impacting cybersecurity? * 24:30 - How do companies get the right cybersecurity culture?

This podcast is part of a series of conversations Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research conducted while at RSA 2019 for the EAR Podcast. In this interview, he speaks with Phil Quade, CISO of Fortinet. Woods and Quade covered a variety of topics such as zero trust and cybersecurity migration to the cloud. Their conversations covers: * 1:00 - Fortinet's product offering * 8:15 - Why segmentation is powerful as a cybersecurity tool * 15:15 - The necessity of greater integration in cybersecurity * 22:00 - How will cloud migration work for cybersecurity? * 26:00 - Is cyber insurance necessary?