Security

Reason #2 That You Need File Virtualization If you’re just joining us, the first article in this series is here. While desktop management is a volume issue – touch enough desktops and something is likely to break – Reason #2 is more about complexity. Our data centers are like the cloverleaf on a busy freeway intersection – stuff going every which direction, and no one is quite certain (though some claim to be) what causes all those collisions and slowdowns. Simplified – and possibly more effective - Security Yes indeed, I did say that. And I mean it. I figure that once... posted @ Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Security: Here we go again! We as an industry have this love-hate relationship with security - a necessary evil doesn't do enough to describe the growing portion of our IT budget consumed by making certain only the people we want are in, and they can only see the bits we want. And because of that, one of the first things to get hit on a downturn is security spending. It's a larger budget, it doesn't generate a cent of revenue, and frankly, it pisses most of us off. Until the breach that is. Then we want to know why that hole existed (and likely someone... posted @ Friday, January 23, 2009 12:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Accuracy is important. Vulnerabilities not so much. Heh. Got you reading, didn't I? The point of this blog post is short and sweet. Yesterday SANS released their list of the Top 25 Vulnerability Coding Errors (emphasis mine). Sadly, finding that to be too long for a snappy title, they got rid of that superfluous word "Vulnerability" and titled it Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. These geniuses were blindly followed by journalists, bloggers and twit-heads who chimed in on this entrancing topic. Some of these blind followers are, sadly, people I respect. One word: FAIL. These are great, the list has been a long time in... posted @ Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:23 PM | Feedback (1)

Nothing but Blue Skies Coming My Way The rest of the team is at a conference this week, and I admit that I'm running a little slow. I was supposed to be there, but a personal issue kept me home this year, and I find myself working slower than normal - perhaps because my team (and many other teams) aren't here to spur me on. Anyway, One of our NSEs (Hey Jeff!) sent me this article over at Linux Magazine, and I decided that it was much more exciting than my prepared blog topic, so I am going to run with it. Mr. Hess clearly isn't... posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 11:16 AM | Feedback (0)