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Phil Hochmuth
Program Manager, Security Products

Team: Security Products and Services
Phil Hochmuth is the Program Manager of IDC’s Security Products service. In this role, he conducts primary research and provides insight and analysis on a range of enterprise security markets, including Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Information Protection and Control (IPC), Messaging Security and Web Security. His research also examines the convergence of these, and other, security technologies as enterprises address new and evolving data security challenges.

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Hochmuth was a Principal Analyst at Yankee Group, where his research covered a range of enterprise network and security technologies, including network infrastructure, data security, remote access, mobile security, server virtualization security and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). He also advised Yankee Group’s telco and service provider clients on cloud computing, security and WAN services strategies. Before Yankee Group, Mr. Hochmuth was a Senior Editor at Network World, where he covered network infrastructure, IP telephony, Linux and open source and security. Before that, Mr. Hochmuth was a systems engineer at CNI Corp., a technology integration firm, where he installed and supported PC/server networks and prepress workflow systems for clients in the newspaper and publishing industries.

As an analyst, Mr. Hochmuth has contributed writing to many publications and industry groups, such as Forbes.com and The CIO Forum. His comments have also appeared in articles and broadcasts by various news outlets and trade journals, including The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Toronto Globe and Mail, WBZ-TV Boston, CNN.com, Network World, Computer World, CIO, CNET, CIO Talk Radio and Information Week.

Mr. Hochmuth holds a B.A. degree in journalism from Northeastern University.

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F5 and Websense Partner to Unify Protection of "People" and "Processors" from Web Threats, Data Loss
Phil Hochmuth
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcUS23998213      IDC Link
A technology/marketing partnership between F5 and Websense, announced at the RSA Conference on February 28, 2013, aims at unifying security controls around the two biggest targets for advanced Web-based attacks — corporate end users and ent ...
Cisco Gets Cognitive for, and About, Advanced Threat Prevention
Phil Hochmuth
Feb 2013 - Doc # lcUS23944713      IDC Link
On January 29, 2013, Cisco announced plans to acquire Cognitive Security, an advanced threat detection and analysis technology provider based in Prague, Czech Republic. The terms of the deal to buy Cognitive, which has fewer than 100 employ ...

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U.S. Mobile Security Survey, 2013
Phil Hochmuth, Charles J. Kolodgy, John Grady, Sally Hudson, Christian A. Christiansen
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240598      Survey
This IDC study discusses the findings from the U.S. Mobile Security Survey regarding threats posed by mobile devices and apps among BYOD and IT-controlled firms.: "Mobile devices and apps pose a great security risk in the eye ...
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Symantec 4.0: A Long Time Coming and a Positive Change of Direction
Phil Hochmuth, Vivian Tero, John Grady, Jean S. Bozman, Sally Hudson, Charles J. Kolodgy
Mar 2013 - Doc # 239311      Insight
This IDC Insight examines the details of the "Symantec 4.0" corporate restructuring and transformation strategy announced via a public Webcast to analysts and investors on January 23, 2013. All aspects of Symantec's businesses groups are ...
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Appearances

IDC at RSA 2013
San Francisco, CA United States
February 27, 2013

Predictions 2013: The Evolving Security Ecosystem
Framingham, MA United States
December 20, 2012

Security Predictions 2012: Big Data, Social, Mobile, and Cloud Embolden the Security Community
Framingham, MA United States
December 22, 2011