User provisioning: Both vendors have mature products with large market shares, but the two products have significantly different data architectures. Would IBM contemplate keeping both products in their portfolio? Combining the two products would take many years and put both products’ customers through a lot of grief.

These two issues — increased toxicity of customer data, and mandates designed to protect that toxic data — are the primary reason DLP is taking off. About 80% of the time, enterprises evaluating DLP are doing it because of toxic data problem. They are not doing it primarily because of the fear of leaking more ethereal forms of intellectual property, like product plans or sales forecasts. Yes, we do hear that IP protection is driving some interest. It's just not the primary driver — at least not amongst the mainstream adopters who are now kicking the tires and exploring their options.

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There is no question that leading a product management team is one of the most demanding and high-stress jobs in a company. In a very real sense, this role drives the future success of the company. It’s not unusual for people to spend some time at this level and decide that they miss having a life. Fortunately, the experience in this role turns out to be very useful for other, less stressful positions:

"There will always, one can assume, be need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous."–Peter Drucker

A pragmatic approach to application security assessments.