Consolidation is the major benefit or “killer app” for server/data center virtualization. Standardization is the major benefit or “killer app” for client-side virtualization.
As I was pondering the challenges of current systems management processes, researching the latest and greatest from the client-side virtualization vendors, and talking to a lot of large organizations I was trying to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘anti-virus’
Client-Side Virtualization Episode II: Standardization, Attack of the Clones and Desktops Reloaded
Posted in Security, Technology, tagged anti-virus, biodiversity, citrix, Data Breach, Data security, diversity, Gartner, HVD, IBM, Microsoft, standardization, VDI, Verizon, Virtualization, VMWare on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
SC Magazine: Securing the Mobile Endpoint
Posted in Security, tagged anti-virus, AV, cloud computing, daa breaches, Desktop Virtualization, encryption, endpoint security, mobile computing, SC Magazine on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Quotes from a recent SC Magazine article “Increased Mobile Working Has Caused a Rethink on Endpoint Security” (here) focuses on encryption, cloud-computing and desktop virtualization…
On Conficker: The Return of the High-Profile Mass Infection Worm
Posted in Security, tagged anti-virus, Botnets, cloud comnputing, Conficker, Fred Ward, Hollywood, Kevin Bacon, McAfee, Microsoft, NAC, Network Access Control, Network Securty Monitoring, Richard Bejlitch, Symantec, Tao Security, Tremors, Verizon Business Services on March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Their back!
It has been awhile since we had a good old fashioned, highly publicized, hysteria inducing, globally distributed, mass-infecting worm. The AV vendors (here) and (here) must be ecstatic that 2009 is really turning out to be the year of the largest security incidents since the beginning of forever as I predicted it would be [...]
The 11 Worst Ideas in Security
Posted in Security, tagged anti-virus, Britney Spears, CPAV, death, DLP, Gartner, IDS, Microsoft, NAC, passowrds, security vendors, Stiennon, Symantec, Things that go bump in the night, total suckage, VC funding, Vulenrbility Disclosure, WEP on August 22, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Now of course it would be easy to slap the hide of NAC, IDS, and DLP technologies, but why kick something when it is down, besides we have Stiennon for that (here)…so I give you the 11 worst ideas in security, presented in far less a grumpy format than Ranum’s 6 dumbest ideas in security [...]



