David, I couldn’t agree with you more. I think its vital that companies take the initiative to utilize emerging technologies to better enhance enterprise security. Take a look at Siemens for example who yesterday launched a partnership with Marathon, a company that offers high availability solutions, to coincide with their SiPass access control system.
Would you consider this engaging at stage 1?

http://www.marathontechnologies.com/press_release.html?id=222&rand=603817170

This is kind of what I was thinking when I mentioned hiring differently. I think in a company big enough to have people playing with emerging tech, ‘enterprise security’ should have people whose job includes playing with emerging tech with a security frame of mind.

To your point, that’s not going to happen overnight, and until people realize the advantages of earlier investment…. Stage 2 is a much better starting point than stage 4!

Stage 2 might be a more appropriate starting point for the inclusion of the security team, assuming your organization is advanced enough to have such a thing. That would expedite most of the issues normally associated with stage 3 as described above but still not detract from early-stage venture development or waste too much of the security team’s time.

I intended the title to be a bit ambiguous, since the status quo for emerging tech in the enterprise creates risk… but my hope is that this “threat” can be turned into improved security.

In short, you’re right. I could have picked a better title to make my point clear from the beginning.

Thanks for the feedback!

I think your title can be quite confusing. I first read it as “Emerging technologies are causing new security threats to Enterprises”.
Reading the article it become obvious that you actually mean the reverse, but your title can be somewhat misleading.

Just my 2 cents.

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Mickael Rémond
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