Akshay on the business of security

Today I had a thought provoking conversation with Dr. Peter Diamandis , Chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation & X Prize Foundation, on radical & fundamental change. Change that advances the status quo rather than relying on incremental Read More...

After about an hour of nodding his head vigorously in agreement with some of our lessons learnt, my customer jumped up and exclaimed, " Great!! Now where do I find another 20 people like these?" (pointing to my team)... I thought about it a while and Read More...

Technorati Tags: Conference , SDLC , SDL , IT , ISV I will be discussing Microsoft IT's approach to secure application development, with a special focus on how we integrate security into the IT line-of-business SDLC, in a webcast this Thursday May 29th. Read More...

The other day I was subject to the assertion that the only asset an IT security organizations should care about is data. Now being in the application security business, I should have been jumping at this validation but couldn't. The IT security org needs Read More...

Now that you've decided (or battled) to set up an application security program you realize that it actually needs to get funded. You must master the art of delicately drinking from the fire hydrant of line of business applications. In my experience helping Read More...

Large enterprises tend to have a number of line of business (LOB) applications supporting business operations. It becomes key for an application security program to help the organization manage the risk posed by each of these applications. Applications Read More...