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My friend Amrit Williams, CTO of BigFix, invited me to speak on his “Beyond the Perimeter” podcast yesterday. Big mistake for him. Kidding aside, we had a good conversation about a number of things, including how security needs to evolve and why his podcast is called “Beyond the Perimeter.”

Amrit Williams, CTO of Big Fix

Amrit used to cover SIEM (he claims to have originated the term back in the day, while he was burying Jimmy Hoffa, clearly) for Gartner, so we chatted quite a bit about how the industry has evolved and where it’s going, especially relative to emerging compliance requirements.

Here is Amrit’s description:

Episode 26 – Situational Awareness Inside and Beyond the Perimeter

Amrit Williams, CTO of BigFix, Inc. speaks with Mike Rothman, founder of Security Incite and recently hired Senior Vice President of eiQ network on the need to secure information wherever it resides or travels, and a pendulum shift away from log management back to situational awareness. According to Rothman, the emphasis on log management trend stemmed from organizations taking a “check off” approach to information stewardship compliance programs. The renewed interest in situational awareness results from realization that log management alone is not enough to understand, respond, or prevent security breaches–in short, what’s really at stake in information security.

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