And The Hits Keep Coming

In case you missed this over the long weekend, a few more notable names were compromised in recent weeks.  A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Big Attacks are Back and it sure seems like the hits keep coming.  First, last Friday, Lockheed Martin said that earlier in the week, they detected that someone was trying to break into their network through the VPN.  Lockheed is a huge military contractor providing fighter jets, spy satellites and other military and intelligence equipment for the US and other government entities.  They are also known for Skunk Works or their Advanced...

RSA2011 F5 Partner Spotlight - OPSWAT

We meet with OPSWAT’s CEO Benny Czarny to talk about the F5 partnership and Steven Gill, VP Engineering, gives us a demo of some of their new technologies. </p> <p>ps</p> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc" _fcksavedurl="http://www.youtube.com/user/f5networksinc">F5 YouTube Channel</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.f5.com/partners/" _fcksavedurl="http://www.f5.com/partners/">F5 Partner Page</a></li> <li><a href="www.opswat.com" _fcksavedurl="www.opswat.com">OPSWAT</a></li> </ul> <p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/F5" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/F5">F5</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/RSA" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/RSA">RSA</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Pete+Silva" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/Pete+Silva">Pete Silva</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/security" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/business" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/business">business</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/education" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/education">education</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tag/technology">technology</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/internet" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/internet">internet, </a><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/cybercrime" _fcksavedurl="http://technorati.com/tags/cybercrime">cybercrime</a></p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="376"><tbody> <tr>...

The New Wallet: Is it Dumb to Carry a Smartphone?

When I was a teenager, I used to have one of those cool nylon surfer wallets with the Velcro close, you remember those don’t ya?  While pumping diesel (had a VW Rabbit) one day at an old Gulf station, I left the wallet on top of the car and drove off.  Realizing that my wallet was not snug in the sun visor when I got home, I retraced my path and found it - parts of it - scattered all over Route 1.  Luckily, I got most of my belongings back but had that sickened feeling of almost losing my...

F5 Tutorial: BIG-IP APM with SecureAuth

This video demonstrates the flexibility of BIG-IP Access Policy Manager and integration with SecureAuth, which provides two-factor authentication using SSL certificates. F5's Tony Torzillo shows how these integrate with the AD server to allow you to login to the AD server, and it will then retrieve the user's phone number and email and allow them to authenticate via a text message, voice call, or email as stored in their AD policy.  For more videos, check out F5’s YouTube channel. BIG-IP APM with SecureAuth ps twitter: @psilvas Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, cloud connect, Pete Silva,...

Audio White Paper: F5 FirePass Endpoint Security

As SSL VPN technology becomes more mainstream and organizations extend their internal infrastructures to users who are not necessarily employees, Endpoint security has become an increasing concern. Allowing an infected device access onto the network is just as bad as allowing an invalid user to access proprietary internal information. Most people perceive remote access as either trusted or un-trusted. But these days, with so many personal devices connecting to the corporate infrastructure, all hosts should be considered hostile until they prove otherwise.  This White Paper describes how F5 FirePass Endpoint Security prevents...

CloudFucius Dials Up the Cloud

According to IDC, the worldwide mobile worker population is set to increase from 919.4 million in 2008, accounting for 29% of the worldwide workforce, to 1.19 billion in 2013, accounting for 34.9% of the workforce.  The United States has the highest percentage of mobile workers in its workforce, with 72.2% of the workforce mobile in 2008.  This will grow to 75.5% by the end of the forecast period to 119.7 million mobile workers.  The U.S. will remain the most highly concentrated market for mobile workers with three-quarters of the workforce being mobile by 2013 and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) represents...

In 5 Minutes or Less - F5 FirePass v7 Endpoint Security

I show some of the new FirePass Endpoint Security features like GPO, CAPTCHA, Protected Workspace and others in the recent FirePass v7 release. Watch how to create policies, enforce host checks and other protective measures for your Remote Access deployments.       ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, cloud connect, Pete Silva, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, intercloud, cloud, context-aware, infrastructure 2.0, automation, web, internet, blog twitter: @psilvas

Connecting to a Cloud while Flying thru the Clouds

CloudFucius checked out some In-flight WiFi this week while traveling to Seattle.  Alaska Air offers GoGo Inflight Internet on their 737 fleet flying the 48 contiguous for $4.95, but the service is free through July 2010.  An instruction card is located in the magazine pouch located in front of your seat and after the climb to 10,000 ft, you can connect with your WiFi enabled device.  The setup is simple: 1. Turn on WiFi; 2. Find ‘gogoinflight’ signal (which happens to be the only one found at 10,000 ft); 3. Launch browser and log in.  You do need to...

CloudFucius Shares: Cloud Research and Stats

Sharing is caring, according to some and with the shortened week, CloudFucius decided to share some resources he’s come across during his Cloud exploration in this abbreviated post.  A few are aged just to give a perspective of what was predicted and written about over time. Some Interesting Cloud Computing Statistics (2008) Mobile Cloud Computing Subscribers to Total Nearly One Billion by 2014 (2009) Server, Desktop Virtualization To Skyrocket By 2013: Report (2009) Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing (2009) A Berkeley View Of Cloud Computing : An Analysis –...

CloudFucius Inspects: Hosts in the Cloud

So much has been written about all the systems, infrastructure, applications, content and everything else IT related that’s making it’s way to the cloud yet I haven’t seen much discussion (or maybe I just missed it) about all the clients connecting to the cloud to access those systems.  Securing those systems has made some organizations hesitate in deploying IT resources in the cloud whether due to compliance, the sensitivity of the data, the shared infrastructure or simply persuaded by survey results.  Once a system is ‘relatively’ secure, how do you keep it that way when the slew of potentially...