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Marc Solomon, Sourcefire’s Chief Marketing Officer, has over 15 years of experience defining and managing software and software-as-a-service platforms for IT Operations and Security. He was previously responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and leadership of Fiberlink’s MaaS360 on-demand IT Operations software and managed security services. Prior to Fiberlink, Marc was Director of Product Management at McAfee, responsible for leading a $650M product portfolio. Before McAfee, Marc held various senior roles at Everdream (acquired by Dell), Deloitte Consulting and HP. Marc has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Recent articles by Marc Solomon

  • Consistency is Key When Evaluating Security Effectiveness and Performance
    In order to be effective in today’s dynamically changing threat and IT environments, security solutions need to evolve. Each time these solutions evolve you’re, in effect, dealing with a “new” solution.
  • Shifting Boundaries Require a New Approach to Data Center Protection
    Trends such as virtualization, BYOD and cloud computing remove the traditional boundaries that have defined what you need to protect. Protecting the data center is becoming increasingly complex. Let’s take a closer look at these trends and the threats they can present to the data center.
  • Continuous Capability - The Next Frontier
    To best defend against modern threats, an enterprise needs global knowledge— information about modern network environments and the threat landscape. The challenge is clear, and protection must evolve.
  • In the Battle Against Cyberattackers, Information Superiority Wins
    When your network is breached, the attackers are leveraging information superiority – they know something you don’t about your environment and they’re using that to gain access to your network and digital assets.
  • It's Time to Open Our Eyes to Advanced Malware Protection
    Traditional security solutions are falling short of providing needed protection because they’re typically blind to changing conditions and new attacks. Simply put: you can’t protect what you can’t see.
  • Effective Network Security Requires a Next-Generation Mindset
    As vendors and customers alike refresh existing systems, they must recognize that simply upgrading to advanced functionality isn’t enough—it must be incorporated without sacrificing performance or quality.
  • Securing Against the APT – Integrating Security More Effectively Into the Enterprise
    Organizations can’t buy an “Anti-APT” solution, but adopting the right security strategy can help defend against APTs that attempt to seize data and wreak havoc.
  • For Next-Generation Security Solutions, It's All About Context and Visibility
    The term “Next-Generation” is frequently used in the industry to signal that a new technology has made a sufficient leap forward. Fueling one of the latest rounds of next-generation solutions is a shift to context-aware computing.
  • Using Network Segmentation to Protect the Modern Enterprise Network
    Network segmentation can provide security teams with the foundation required to protect dynamically changing network infrastructure and services. So what's the best way to Implement Network Segmentation?
  • Agile Security is Key to Stopping Today’s High-Profile Breaches
    Traditional security tools were designed for a stable, slowly changing environment. Security must evolve to better address the new reality of a dynamic and rapidly changing environment. Security
  • Applying Big Data for Intelligent Decision Making
    With new threats targeting IT infrastructure at an unprecedented pace, organizations need security solutions that can continuously draw from volumes of data to identify suspicious activity, leverage automation to keep up with the volume of threats.
  • Securing the Modern Data Center
    Modern data centers are undergoing a transformation driven by trends such as virtualization, green IT, endpoint growth and externalization, resulting in new risks that demand renewed attention to data center security. So what steps can data center architects take to help protect the modern data center in the face of these risks?
  • Why Everyone Needs to Care About IPv6
    Have you considered how you’ll secure your IPv6 infrastructure? Even if you aren’t implementing an IPv6 network, you still need to be concerned about the transition. Here is how can you be sure your network remains protected as the industry moves towards IPv6.
  • New PCI Guidance Spells Big Changes for Virtual Environments
    Organizations that accept and manage credit cardholder data within a virtual environment must understand new guidance pertaining to virtual environments coming from the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Council
  • Engineering an APT
    No single weapon can protect an organization from an APT. A decade ago when viruses threatened our infrastructure, the industry responded and changed the battlefield. As the threat landscape continues to evolve so must our defense strategies.
  • The Evolving Role of Intrusion Prevention Systems
    Regulations are demanding visibility into which users are associated with specific IPS events and network activities. How does this changing landscape affect IPS? The evolution of IPS and security as a whole is far from over...
  • Overcoming Cloud Security Challenges
    What are the security challenges you need to take seriously before moving to the cloud? They fall into three main categories. Loss of Governance, Potential insecurity of shared infrastructure, and Data Loss and Leakage.
  • The Effects of Security Vendor Acquisitions on the Channel and End User
    What do acquisitions mean for those who aren’t directly involved in the deal but instead on the receiving end, such as the channel and the end user?
  • Breaking Through the Virtualization Roadblock
    So why the roadblock when it comes to the adoption of virtualization? One of the biggest inhibitors has been security. Traditional network security is no longer sufficient to adequately protect physical infrastructure, let alone virtual environments.