Grade | Appliance | Grade | Software |
Rapid Deployment | Lower Cost for Licensing Only | ||
Easier Maintenance and Lower TCO | Flexible Deployment with Software Scanners including Virtual Machines | ||
Easier Procurement Process | Limited Raised Floor Rack Space | ||
Hardened Appliance with Minimal Risk Surface | Existing Server Reallocation and Resource Sharing | ||
Geographical Deployment | Unlimited Scalability | ||
Different Budgets, Hardware Only | Different Budgets, Software Only | ||
Optimized Policy and Server for Operations, No Tweaking | Policy Limiting New Hardware on a Network | ||
Hardened and Embedded Operating System | Licensing of Operating System and Database (if needed) | ||
Policy Limiting New Software on a Network | Non-Standard Architectural Requirements and Ports | ||
Physical Infrastructure Preferred | Private Cloud Initiatives (Virtualized Software Deployment) | ||
TOTALS | TOTALS |

Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer, BeyondTrust
Morey J. Haber is the Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has authored four books: Privileged Attack Vectors, Asset Attack Vectors, Identity Attack Vectors, and Cloud Attack Vectors. He is a founding member of the industry group Transparency in Cyber, and in 2020 was elected to the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) Executive Advisory Board. Morey currently oversees BeyondTrust security and governance for corporate and cloud based solutions and regularly consults for global periodicals and media. He originally joined BeyondTrust in 2012 as a part of the eEye Digital Security acquisition where he served as a Product Owner and Solutions Engineer since 2004. Prior to eEye, he was Beta Development Manager for Computer Associates, Inc. He began his career as Reliability and Maintainability Engineer for a government contractor building flight and training simulators. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.