Posted in Security, Technology, tagged citrix, cloud computing, DaaS, HAL 9000, Microsoft, skynet, the Death Star, Virtualization, VMWare on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Systems and security management is difficult, ineffective, costly and becoming ever more so in increasingly distributed, heterogeneous, complex, and mobile computing environments…
98% of all external attacks take advantage of poorly administered, misconfigured, and unmanaged systems (Source: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2009)
A locked down and well managed PC can cost 42% less than an unmanaged [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Posted in Rants, Security, Technology, tagged application virtualization, AppV, citrix, FAIL, Gartner, HyperV, Hypervisor, life cycle Management, Microsoft, Security, systems management, ThinApp, VDI, Virtualization, VMWare, XenDesktop on June 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
To address the increasing cost and complexity of managing dynamic IT environments organizations are trying to understand how to adopt virtualization technologies. The value proposition and “killer app” are quite clear in the data center, however less attention has been given to the opportunities for endpoint virtualization. Even though there are multiple methods to address [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Altiris, cloud computing, DLP, endpoint security, Gerhard Eschelbeck, IBM, Law of vulnerability, Luke Skywalker, Micro, Microsoft, NAC, Philippe Courtot, Quays, SCCM, silly proclamations, SMS, Storm trooper fail, Symantec, Wolfgang Kandek on May 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So apparently the latest version of the Qualys Laws of Vulnerabilty Report has Qualys jumping to some pretty outrageous claims about how cloud-computing – invented by Qualys according to Courtot (insert cute smiley here) – can secure IT more effectively or allow people to not patch any more or some such nonsense (thanks to Hoff [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Al Gore, Amazon, Amazon EC2, Azure, BigFix, CCIF, Cthulhu, Elastic Vapor, Google, IBM, Kaczynski, Microsoft, Open Cloud Computing Manifesto, pentagrams, platform, Reuven Cohen, revolutionary, Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, Technology, The Internet, twitter, Unabomber, virgins on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So apparently a group of technologists and vendors working under the cloak of digital darkness drew out a pentagram and locked arms as they called out to Cthulhu to manifest and drive out those that would oppose their ultimate aims of total and complete world domination. Domination brought about through a set of cloud computing [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Amazon, cloud computing, endpoint security, evolution, Google, hype, information technology, Microsoft, mobile computing, smart phones, Trend Micro, VC, VDI, Virtual Center, Virtualization, VMWare on February 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I had an interesting conversation with a peer recently that started with a statement he made that “innovation was all but dead in security”. The implication was that we had done all we could do and that there was very little more that would be accomplished. Of course I felt this was an overly simplistic [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Craig Mundie, Cyber Warfare, cybercrime, Dave Dewalt, DAVOS, DoS, facebook, FUD, McAfee, Microsoft, youtube on February 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Few things can evoke more uncertainty and doubt than fear (here)…
The threat of cybercrime is rising sharply, experts have warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Online theft costs $1 trillion a year, the number of attacks is rising sharply and too many people do not know how to protect themselves, they said.
On-line theft costs [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Circuit City, DIVX, FAIL, HD DVD, Internet Bubble, Linden Dollars, McAfee, Microsoft, Mitch Kapor, Oakley Thump, Second Life, SONY BMG Rootkit, Symantec, The Millennium Bug, The paperless office, Windows ME, Windows Vista, Y2K on November 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well friends we are nearing the end of another year and closing in on the first decade of the century. As we prepare for the onslaught of 2009 predictions I thought it would be appropriate to look back on all that is FAIL in the world of technology over the past decade so we can [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Amazon, Azure, cloud computing, EC2, Manuvir Das, Microsoft, Ray Ozzie, Seve Marx, technology hype du jour on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Chief Software Architect and creator of Lotus Notes, announced Windows Azure today during the Windows PDC (Professional Developers Conference) event in Los Angeles (here). Azure coincidentally sounds an awful lot like du Jour, as in “technology hype du Jour”
Windows Azure, previously code name “Red Dog” is a hosted suite of services, including [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Chrome, Desktop Virtualization, Google, Greenborder, Hoff, Microsoft, Postini, Security on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Google recently “leaked” a cartoon providing information on their upcoming browser named “Chrome” (here) and (here) – personally I will be impressed when the movie comes out and there is a guest appearance by Stan Lee. There has already been a tremendous amount of discussion and opinion on the ramifications of such a release. Most [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Microsoft, Security, SDL, Michael Howard, Bletchley Park, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Polybios, Nietschze, ECHELON, DNSSEC, Mendel on September 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It is easy to criticize, in fact many have built their entire careers on the foundation of “Monday morning quarter-backing”, not only is it human nature to look for improvements at the detriment of old ideas, but it is also far more humorous to point out what is wrong than to espouse the virtues of [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Gartner, IBM, Microsoft, RSA, Val Rahmani on April 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
According to IBM the Security industry is dead and has no future (here)
“The security business has no future,” Val Rahamani, general manager of IBM ISS and of security and privacy for IBM Global Technology Services. Rahamani said the security industry as it is today is not sustainable, and that IBM is instead going into the [...]
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