Profile of Rik Turner

Principal Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions, Omdia

Member Since: 7/28/2016
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Rik is a principal analyst in Omdia's IT security and technology team, specializing in cybersecurity technology trends, IT security, compliance, and call recording. He provides analysis and insight on market evolution and helps end users determine what type of technology and which vendor they should be pursuing.

Rik has also worked in Omdia's financial services technology team, with a specialization in capital markets technology. Prior to joining Omdia, he worked as an IT journalist, specializing in networking and security, and as a foreign correspondent in Brazil, where he worked, among others, for the Financial Times and The Economist.

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Bringing Zero Trust to Secure Remote Access

1/12/2021
Demand for secure remote access has skyrocketed during the pandemic. Here Omdia profiles more secure alternatives to virtual private network (VPN) technology.
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Palo Alto Networks adds Attack Surface Management with $800 Million Expanse Buy

11/27/2020
For Palo Alto Networks, the $800m acquisition of Expanse, a provider of services it describes as attack surface management, adds a proactive dimension beyond traditional threat detection and response capabilities.
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On the Radar: NetFoundry Offers Network-as-a-Service with Zero-Trust Access to Apps

11/26/2020
NetFoundry is a network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider. Its eponymous platform is cloud-native and API-driven, combining security based on the zero-trust principle with enhanced internet as a replacement for MPLS connectivity.
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CyberArk Launches Cloud Permissions Management Service

11/19/2020
Privileged access management (PAM) market leader CyberArk has launched a service in the emerging cloud permissions management (CPM) space.
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Omdia Market Radar: Outbound Email Security

11/18/2020
Omdia profiles four vendors of outbound email security, focusing on building in controls to offset risks from insider threats, i.e., scenarios in which sensitive, confidential, or the wrong information is sent to the wrong recipients.
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On the Radar: PortSys Offers a Zero-Trust Access Platform

11/12/2020
This report examines PortSys's zero-trust access technology and considers how it can replace traditional VPNs for remote access or complement an existing VPN infrastructure to enable gradual migration to the new remote access paradigm.
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Applying the necessary controls and greater rigor, without making the process so difficult or time-consuming that it gets subverted anyway by frustrated users, is a challenge that organizations will increasingly need and want to address.

9/30/2020

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Arista Buys Awake Security for an XDR Play

9/29/2020
This acquisition positions networking vendor Arista to compete in the emerging XDR market, in which detection and response span multiple areas of corporate infrastructure.
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Fundamentals of Outbound Email Security

9/23/2020
Outbound email security focuses on building in controls to offset identified risks from various insider threat scenarios, many of which have received little attention from defenders to date.
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On the Radar: Pulse Secure Delivers Zero-Trust Secure Access Service

9/8/2020
Pulse Secure is an information security vendor with a focus on secure remote access for people, devices, things, and services.
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Fastly Pays $775 Million to Boost Security Services with its Signal Sciences Buy

9/4/2020
Fastly has announced the $775m acquisition of application security vendor Signal Sciences. Signal Sciences will bolster Fastly’s portfolio: it will join the content delivery networks that lead with or feature AppSec capabilities.
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AWS Security Tools for Its IaaS and PaaS Environments

8/19/2020
AWS has been providing cloud computing services for over a decade and remains the clear leader in the IaaS market. Over that time, it has expanded and enhanced the security capabilities of its platform and services.
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The DXC Xchanging Attack Shows Ransomware is Back with a Vengeance

7/10/2020
IT service provider DXC announced that its Xchanging subsidiary is facing a ransomware attack. Ransomware is again the industry's top threat vector, as the world grapples with COVID-19.
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Introducing 'Secure Access Service Edge'

7/3/2020
The industry's latest buzzword is largely a repackaging exercise that bundles a collection of capabilities together and offers them as a cloud-delivered service.
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On the Radar: Ermetic Provides Cloud Permissions Management

6/30/2020
Ermetic provides security for data stores, databases, and some compute instances in IaaS and PaaS.
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Versa Enters the Zero-Trust Access market

6/29/2020
Software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) vendor Versa Networks has entered an adjacent and complementary market, launching a zero-trust access (ZTA) product.
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On the Radar: BotRx Offers Runtime Security for Web Applications

6/25/2020
BotRx provides a software service to protect web and mobile apps from bot attacks.
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CipherCloud Remains a CASB, But Builds a SASE Ecosystem

6/10/2020
CipherCloud is a longstanding member of the cloud access security broker (CASB) sector.
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On the Radar: OPAQ Offers Network- and Security-as-a-Service

6/10/2020
OPAQ offers networking and security delivered as services from its own IP backbone.
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VMware Pushes Toward XDR Play with Acquisition of NDR Vendor Lastline

6/8/2020
VMware has acquired Lastline, a network detection and response (NDR) vendor. It is pursuing an XDR offering to compete with Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro.
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Secure Access Service Edge is Not a New Cybersecurity Market Segment

6/1/2020

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Stellar Cyber Adds Cloud Detection and Response to its XDR offering

5/28/2020
Stellar Cyber has launched a capability for cloud environments to complement the endpoint and network dimensions already addressed by its Starlight platform.
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On the Radar: PerimeterX Protects Web Apps Against Bots, Malicious Code, and API Abuse

5/28/2020
PerimeterX delivers application security across three distinct areas: bots, the application code itself, and application programming interfaces (APIs).
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The landgrab in CSPM Continues Apace

5/20/2020
The acquisition at the end of April of CSPM developer DivvyCloud by Rapid7 was the latest in a series of purchases of CSPM players, mostly by companies with broader portfolios.
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Analyst Commentary: PAM Market Leader CyberArk Enters IDaaS with Idaptive Buy

5/19/2020
CyberArk, the market leader in privileged access management (PAM), has entered the identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) segment with the $70m acquisition of Idaptive.
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On the Radar: Zettaset Delivers Encryption for Containers Orchestrated by K8s

5/13/2020
Zettaset delivers what it terms software-defined encryption technology for data at rest in physical on-premises, virtual, and cloud environments.
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On the Radar: Micro Focus Offers Transparent Encryption for Unstructured Data

5/13/2020
Business software vendor Micro Focus has launched Voltage SmartCipher, which provides transparent encryption for unstructured data.
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On the Radar: Axis Security Takes a Different Approach to Zero-Trust Access

5/6/2020
Axis Security has developed a cloud-based platform to deliver secure remote access based on a zero-trust approach.
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On the Radar: SSH.COM Plans SaaS Version of its Just-In-Time PAM Platform

4/23/2020
SSH Communications Security came into existence to monetize the market opportunity stemming from the widespread adoption of the SSH protocol invented by its founder.
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On the Radar: King & Union Enables Cyberthreat Investigation

4/22/2020
King & Union develops and markets technology that enables cyberthreat analysis.
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On the Radar: 42Crunch Secures APIs in the Development Pipeline and At Runtime

4/20/2020
42Crunch provides API security, both at runtime and in the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
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Sumo Logic Fills Out its Portfolio After the Acquisition of JASK

4/17/2020
In the wake of its November 2019 acquisition of JASK, a competitor in the security management market, Sumo Logic has expanded its product portfolio.
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Analyst Commentary: Another CSPM Vendor Snapped Up as Zscaler Buys Cloudneeti

4/14/2020
Zscaler, which provides security services from the cloud, has announced the acquisition of Cloudneeti, a developer of cloud security posture management (CSPM) technology.
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On the Radar: ALTR Offers Data Security as a Cloud-Based Service

4/8/2020
ALTR provides Data Security as a Service (DSaaS) to mitigate the risk of direct access to and consumption of sensitive enterprise data. The platform offers data access monitoring, governance, and at-rest protection and provides these capabilities natively at the application layer.
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On the Radar: Echosec Systems Provides Online Info Discovery and Data Gathering

4/7/2020
Echosec Systems develops data discovery technology that it delivers in software-as-a-service (SaaS) mode.
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On the Radar: Awake Security Offers Network Detection and Response

4/7/2020
Awake Security develops technology to analyze traffic on corporate networks via passive networking monitoring, and recently supplemented its technology with a managed service.
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McAfee Ticks Multiple Threat Intel Boxes with MVISION Insights

4/2/2020
McAfee is readying a threat intelligence service called MVISION Insights, featuring intel produced by the vendor's researchers, threat prioritization based on the customer's security posture and local context, and scoring of its current protection level.
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Introducing Zero-Trust Access

3/26/2020
It's too early to tell whether ZTA will be a VPN killer or not, but major players are ramping up products in this new class of security technology that focuses on the cloud.
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Threat Intelligence Gateways: A Useful Adjunct to Overworked Perimeter Security

8/22/2019
Comparative research shows the relative strengths and weaknesses of five TIG vendors and which kinds of security organization will reap the most benefit.
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