F5's BIG-IP with Oracle® Access Manager to enhance SSO and Access Control

Learn how F5's BIG-IP LTM/APM helps in conjunction with Oracle Access Manager centralizing web application authentication and authorization services, streamline access management, and reduce infrastructure costs Watch how BIG-IP APM can reduce TCO, lower deployment risk, and streamline operational efficiencies for customers along with having a unified point of enforcement to simplify auditing and control changes in configuring application access settings. ps Technorati Tags: F5, infrastructure 2.0, integration, collaboration, standards, cloud connect, Pete Silva, F5, security, business, education, technology, application delivery, intercloud, cloud, context-aware, infrastructure 2.0, automation, web, internet, blog twitter: @psilvas

A is for Application, J is for Jacked

…Criminal-toasty Application Jacked, Data’s tasty stolen too, You’re Application’s Hacked.  Application’s Jacked, Application’s Jacked - hum hum the rest in your head, glad to plant a jingle in you, to sing out all day! Almost every day now, there seems to be a report about some ‘important’ system getting breached or some credit cards/identities being stolen or insecure infrastructures getting exposed with schools, universities, municipalities, states and even entire countries being the latest victims.  The recent 7Safe UK Security Breach Investigations Report stated, “86% of all attacks, a weakness in a web interface was exploited” and in his blog...

Consolidate and Dedicate to Eradicate

Whether it be due to cloud computing, last year’s economic mess, or just the general cyclical nature of the Tech Industry, Consolidation has been a huge focus of IT departments of late.  Data Center consolidation, hardware consolidation, staff consolidation and tech sector consolidation to name a few.  I remember the days of single purpose boxes that did one thing well.  In fact, a decade ago at Exodus, that was one of my positioning points for BIG-IP over such LB units as Alteon, ArrowPoint and LocalDirector since they were switched/hardware-based appliances.  I’d say something like, ‘It’s a Floor Wax and a...

Post-Blog Report: 26 Short Topics about Security

Aloha and welcome to the post-blog report.  Over the last 5 months, I’ve been writing a blog series called, 26 Short Topics about Security and wanted to share some observations.  First, I went about this since there are so many IT challenges when it comes to security and it’s virtually impossible to cover them all.  Plus, I’m always looking for interesting stats and stories pertaining to security and thought I’d gather them up in one place.  It’s sort of a 2009 ‘Security Greatest Hits’ (or Misses, if you’re a Devo fan).  If you are a blogger and sometimes...

Catch some Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

It used to be the ‘stuck to our side’ pagers that go off at 3am telling you that a server crashed that would keep you up at night.  You’d drag yourself out of bed (or the chair at the data center that you fell asleep in), tippy-toe to the computer in hopes of gaining remote access or wonder to the car, still in your PJs, to drive to the facility.  In February 2009, InformationWeek & Dark Reading conducted a survey entitled, ‘What Keeps Infosec Pros Awake at Night.’  They asked more than 400 IT pros, among other things, what...

It all comes down to YOU - The User

One of my favorite Security writers, Bruce Schneier, had an interesting entry last week called Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities where he discusses the recent reports about the security flaw in the SSL protocol and how we as users should relax and essentially, ‘do nothing.’  “What?!? – Do nothing??”  Yup, and he has some good reasons why.  Usually, new exploits, threats, breaches and the typical security stuff that garners the headlines, makes security folks jump.  Jump to search the internet for anything related, jump to see if our systems are infected or vulnerable, jump to put an action plan in place...

You’ve Taken That Out of Context

Hello and Welcome to the new hit Game Show: You’ve Taken that Out of Context!  Hilarity ensues in this action packed half-hour when contestants try to deliver the appropriate resources to end users depending on several factors and circumstances.  So let’s get right to it: Our first contestant is Danny, an IT Director from Boston and he’s getting his first request…..OK, user is coming from a home computer, without a certificate, from a broadband connection and is a partner – what are you going to give them Danny?  Wow, Excellent!  You’ve provided a simple web application, delivered through a reverse...