Mark Kraynak is the director of product marketing at Imperva. Before joining Imperva, he held marketing and consulting positions at Check Point, CacheFlow (now BlueCoat Systems), and Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. Mark is a regular speaker on application and database security and participates in industry efforts to define the role of application firewalls in security architectures.
The operational impact of deployment is a primary inhibitor to the adoption
of new technology in many companies.
Application and database security is a new topic on the minds of many
security groups. A key challenge in evaluating alternative solutions is
estimating the cost and time to deploy and manage them.
However, some issues are difficult to anticipate because they emerge only in
a broad deployment, while most evaluations are done on a smaller scale than
that of the actual deployment. With application security products, the impact
of these issues is heightened since many Web and database applications
directly affect business operations and revenues. In fact, operational
pressures are the top reason cited by managers of unsuccessful firewall
deployments.
The following list describes what key deployment and operational questions
you should ask your vendor and your ... (more)
Mark Kraynak is the director of product marketing at Imperva. Before joining Imperva, he held marketing and consulting positions at Check Point, CacheFlow (now BlueCoat Systems), and Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. Mark is a regular speaker on application and database security and participates in industry efforts to define the role of application firewalls in security architectures.
Tom Flynn
Leonard Johnson
Patrick Pushor
Bob Evans
Alex Henthorn-Iwane
