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- Spoofing NAC
- Remember Stiennons first law of network security? It is: Thou shalt not trust an end point to report its own state. This means that you cannot trust the IP address, MAC address, location, AV signature file version, and configuration information reported by a device. It can be spoofed....
- Tags: Security blog, Security, Secure Network Fabric
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Changes in store for ThreatChaos
- I just spent nine months as an independent analyst covering the IT security space. You will have noticed that in addition to posting about the threats and rise of cyber crime I began to cover the security industry as well. When I originally started to write Threatchaos I was...
- Tags: Secure Network Fabric, security, network security, network
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Secure Network Fabric on the rise
- Secure Network Fabric is my term for the idea that networks should be secure. I was excited to stumble upon a company called ConSentry. The call it a secure LAN controller. I call it SNF.The recent convergence between switch and IPS companies also points to a general trend here. Look...
- Tags: Secure Network Fabric
- Blog posts 2005-12-13
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- Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
- The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks
- During a telephone conversation between us last week Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch said he was going to pick up on my Collaboration Networks meme, and he has now produced a solid post on this topic. Aaron takes on the number one issue plaguing...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Network, Tool, Aaron, Information Fabric, Collaborative Network, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Wilson Electronics Wireless Amplifier Cradle Kit
- When we reviewed the Wilson Electronics SignalBoost Cellular Amplifier earlier this year, we were impressed with how significantly it boosted our cell phone reception in areas with patchy coverage. Where previously we struggled to get a consistent signal, the SignalBoost made it possible to make a call. Yet as useful...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, Nothing, cord, amplifier, Cradle Kit, phone
- Product reviews 2007-12-04
- Integrity of Information on the Move With the Cisco Secure Wireless Solution for the Campus
- The campus network needs to target not only availability and reliability, but also services, as business-critical network applications become increasingly interactive and traffic patterns become less predictable. To adapt to these new demands and align the network with business priorities, IT managers must make sure the campus network delivers business...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Secure SAN Zoning Best Practices
- This paper describes and clarifies Zoning, a security feature in Storage Area Network SAN fabrics. By understanding the terminology and implementing Zoning best practices, a Brocade SAN fabric can be easily secured and scaled while maintaining maximum uptime. Zoning not only prevents a host from unauthorized access of storage assets,...
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Fabric, Best Practice, RSCN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-01
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- SAP's cautious Web 2.0 imagineering
- I met with Denis Browne, senior vice president of imagineering at SAP Labs. He isn't on loan from Disney, which came up with "imagineering" portmanteau in the 1950's. Browne is tasked with imagining, developing and evangelizing Web 2.0 innovations--social networks, widgets, RSS, blogs, wikis, SMS, virtual worlds, etc.--across various...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Web 2.0, Network, SAP AG, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- WSO2 expands ESB market with Apache Synapse-based, open source SOA offering
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: WSO2WSO2, Inc. has entered the open source SOA field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company's latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB 1.0,...
- Tags: Enterprise Java, management, Open Source, Podcasts, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- The Growing Need for Security in Storage Area Networks
- Today's IT organizations face unprecedented security threats as well as a wide range of industry regulations and government legislation designed to ensure that critical data is well protected. This paper describes key aspects of Storage Area Network SAN security and how Brocade solutions help these organizations better secure their Fibre...
- Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Security, Hardware
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Don't bother with NAC
- At BlackHat this week Ofir Arkin, CTO of a network scanner and asset management vendor Insightix points out a few technical issues with the way NAC, as envisioned by Cisco, is currently designed. Among them: DHCP. Static IP addresses can bypass DHCP which is a primary means of enforcement...
- Tags: NAC
- Blog posts 2006-08-05
- Will RSA give EMC the respect it desires?
- As expected, EMC acquired RSA Security today. The $2.1 billion transaction adds another arrow to EMC's quiver, which includes storage systems, resource management, content management and virtualization. "EMC is where information lives and tomorrow EMC will be the company where information...
- Tags: EMC Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- RSA Buzz
- Sometimes it takes a couple of days to figure out what is hot at a security conference. This year it is Network Access Control. Note that I cannot bring myself to call it Network admission control. As all my posts knocking CNAC demonstrate I think relying on endpoints...
- Tags: NAC
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- Happy Anniversary ThreatChaos
- It seems in vogue to celebrate the first anniversary of one’s blog. I guess that makes sense as there are probably 10 million or so people that are doing that in the next several months. First I want to thank Lindsay Arnhold, the marketing genius at Webroot Software whose...
- Tags: Blogging, security, blog
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- Secure Network Fabric catching on
- Do you ever have that clear understanding of something that comes from long observation? You just know things have to be a certain way? And then you look around and wonder what takes the rest of the world so long to see it? I was afraid that 3Com buying Tippingpoint...
- Tags: switch company, IDS, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-11-16
- Best of Show Systems-Munich
- It took two days but my tour of the six halls of this 5 day expo is complete. Here are a few companies that I found worth a second look:BalaBit. This Hungarian startup was launched from the development of open source syslog tools: syslog-ng. Their product, Zorp,...
- Tags: security, Crossbeam
- Blog posts 2005-10-25
- Now's the time for the network computer
- What a week in IT. Sky-high Skype, Oracle-a-buy-buy, Salesforce.com-anche, Microsoft Office eye candy, MSNing around with AOL. Hard to call IT a has-been, commoditized industry with all of this action. It got me thinking of a unifying implication or common thread between these seemingly distinct...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
- Now's the time for the network computer
- What a week in IT. Sky-high Skype, Oracle-a-buy-buy, Salesforce.com-anche, Microsoft Office eye candy, MSNing around with AOL. Hard to call IT a has-been, commoditized industry with all of this action. It got me thinking of a unifying implication or common thread between these seemingly distinct points.And then it came to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
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