Jon Oltsik

Senior Principal Analyst

  • News
    May 23, 2007

    Cisco, EMC partner on SAN encryption SearchStorage.com

    The RSA/EMC partnership is a good start, said Jon Oltsik, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Click the link to read more.
  • briefs
    May 16, 2007

    CA Supports-and Accelerates-Network Access Control (NAC)

    The technology industry has made Network Access Control harder than it should be, causing confusion and project delays. ESG believes it's time to rationalize NAC and use it for its intended purpose-enhancing security. NAC best practices suggest that the recipe for success is a phased implementation and enforcement. Throughout this process, CA can help accelerate implementation, lower costs, increase security and link NAC benefits to business processes.
  • News
    May 14, 2007

    Security Companies Form Alliance Dark Reading

    The formation of the OpenSEA alliance was initiated, coordinated and promoted by Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at industry analyst firm the Enterprise Strategy Group to provide open source networking and security alternatives in order to accelerate technology adoption and enhance network security. Click the link to read more.
  • News
    May 4, 2007

    How credit-card information went out wireless door The Wall Street Journal

    The security upgrade alone could cost $100 million, says Jon Oltsik, a senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, a Milford, Mass., consulting firm, based on his conversations with industry experts and people familiar with the work being done. Click the link to read more.
  • briefs
    May 1, 2007

    A10 Networks: Lightning Fast Networking - And a Lot More

    There are a number of networking boxes for network identity, WAN optimization and data center application acceleration but few of these can integrate into a common network architectural solution. A10 Networks is an exception to this rule. The company's high performance products offer outstanding value on their own and can also be combined to form a highly functional and operationally efficient network architecture.
  • News
    Apr 12, 2007

    Analysts: TJX case may cost over $1b The Boston Globe

    When you hit a million or more records, then you get much more scrutiny, said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst for Milford consulting company Enterprise Strategy Group, who is among those who estimates that the TJX breach could cost more than $1 billion.
  • briefs
    Mar 19, 2007

    SanDisk TrustWatch: A Unique Data Security Solution

    Securing confidential data requires layered defenses and numerous technologies that can be difficult and complex to manage. Consumer bigwig SanDisk believes it has a better mousetrap. Its recently announced TrustWatch integrated security suite makes SanDisk USB flash drives a hub of end-user authentication, application access and secure storage. ESG believes it may just have something here.
  • research reports
    Mar 15, 2007

    Desktop Security at the Crossroads

  • briefs
    Mar 9, 2007

    Data Encryption Lessons Learned

    Amongst the security glitterati, cocktail parties and rhetoric at last month's RSA Conference, Ingrian Networks, a leader in encryption and key management, hosted an interesting happening of its own. A number of Ingrian customers shared their war stories about enterprise security, data encryption and PCI compliance. This unassuming event may have been one of the more valuable sessions at the show.
  • Blogs
    Feb 20, 2007

    The Core Network Services Disconnect

    Fixed-content data represents a huge-and growing-percentage of organizations' overall digital content. Having quick, secure access to this data is important, but keeping it on primary storage is counterintuitive. It is inefficient at best and costly at worst. Massive array of idle disk (MAID) technologies, such as COPAN's Revolution platform, have emerged as a cost-effective alternative to current storage practices, especially in light of today's energy consumption concerns.
  • briefs
    Feb 16, 2007

    ILM: Microsoft's Next Identity Management Move

    Get ready. Microsoft is about to shake up the identity and access management market. Microsoft unveiled its Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM), as well as the company's strategy and vision for identity and access management at last week's RSA Security Conference - a move that could move identity management closer to Windows and tilt the market toward Redmond.
  • briefs
    Feb 16, 2007

    EMC/RSA: Flexing Industry Muscle

    In spite of its visibility, RSA (the company) always seemed like a fish out of water at the RSA Conference compared to industry leaders like Cisco, Microsoft and Symantec. That all changed in 2007. Under the ownership of EMC Corporation, RSA stood out with a much improved combination of focus, messages and significant announcements.
  • News
    Feb 5, 2007

    Encryption appliances: The new way to automate security Computerworld

    The market is only about five years old and consists of a handful of small firms, noted Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., a market research firm in Milford, Mass. The appliances typically use specialized, dedicated processors to handle the processing demands of encryption, where every byte is the product of intense calculations. The devices cost from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, Oltsik explained.
  • research reports
    Feb 1, 2007

    Messaging Security: Beyond E-mail

  • briefs
    Jan 31, 2007

    Redefining Symantec (Symantec buys Altiris)

    On January 29, Symantec reached into its wallet again and grabbed IT services oriented management software leader Altiris for $830 million. While Symantec boasted about desktop and mobile device management synergies, ESG believes this acquisition can catapult Symantec into an IT risk management leader.

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Jon Oltsik is an ESG senior principal analyst and the founder of the firm’s Information Security and Networking services. With 25 years of technology industry experience, Jon is widely recognized as an expert in threat and security management as well as all aspects of network security. Recently, Jon has been an active participant with cybersecurity issues, legislation, and technology within the U.S. federal government. Prior to joining ESG, Jon was the founder and principal of Hype-Free Consulting. He has also held senior management positions at GiantLoop Network, Forrester Research, Epoch Systems, and EMC Corporation.

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