The bad guys appear to be winning – or at least sharing information on vulnerabilities and attack methodologies – faster and more readily than the good guys, and the regulatory environment is lagging reality, says RSA’s Chief Security Officer Eddie Schwartz. “What is out there in the public (regarding attacks) is the tip of the iceberg of what’s really happening.”
Network Computing
Security: Living In A State Of Compromise
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Probing The State Of The Flow Record Data Market
When it comes to network monitoring, probes appear to be an endangered species in large organizations, according to a new study from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Conducted on behalf of Lancope, Inc., a vendor of NetFlow-based solutions, the research examined the usage, priorities, and practices surrounding network-based flow data records, also known as Flow Record Data, including NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow and IPFIX.
Network Computing
Comments Off
Categories: General.
VMworld In Retrospect
It would be hard to call the recent VMworld anything but a rousing success. After all, 20,000 attendees descended on The Venetian and the vast majority would agree the trip was worth it. However the total experience wasn’t perfect, and as someone who’s attended, covered and occasionally exhibited at conferences for over 25 years, I think it’s time for VMware to stop running the whole show themselves and hire a professional trade show management company.
Network Computing
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Windows Phone 7, Day 17: Taking and Sharing Pictures with WP7
30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 17
Just about every mobile phone–whether a smartphone or traditional “feature phone”–has a camera, and the Samsung Focus with Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” that I am using is no exception. But, not all mobile phone cameras are created equally, and not all mobile operating systems offer the same picture-taking experience, so today I am taking a closer look at taking pictures with Windows Phone 7.
Using the Camera
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Windows Phone 7, Day 15: Xbox Live Gaming on WP7
30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 15
All of the smartphone platforms have games of some sort, but only Windows Phone has Xbox Live. For today’s 30 Days With Windows Phone 7, I’m going to play around–literally–with the games hub and Xbox Live capabilities.
I have a number of games on my iPhone–two whole folders. I have Tetris, three different flavors of Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, the Atari Greatest Hits collection, Madden NFL, Tiger Woods Golf, Need for Speed: Shift, and more. I also have more traditional, or cerebral, games like chess and Sudoku.
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Windows Phone 7, Day 16: The “Full” IE9 Experience
30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 16
One of the things I use my smartphone for most frequently is looking up information on the Web. Normally that involves a feature-limited mobile browser that takes me to an even more feature-limited mobile site, but Windows Phone 7 “Mango” includes the full Internet Explorer.
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Why Facebook Subscribe Button Makes My Facebook Page Obsolete
Perhaps you’ve heard that Facebook has been tweaking the social network a bit? In the past few weeks Facebook has implemented a wide variety of changes–many of which mimic popular features from the rival Google+, and at least one of which leaves me with little reason to continue maintaining my Facebook Page.
Facebook Subscriptions
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Co3 Tackles One Of Security’s Hidden Costs
Billions are being spent annually on protecting information, but Co3 Systems is offering a unique solution for what to do after a data breach occurs. The Cambridge, Mass., software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup is announcing an automated, repeatable way to prepare for data loss events, assess their potential impact, and generate and manage incident response plans more efficiently. Its solution can cut incident response process time by as much as half, and can significantly reduce the risk, expense and resources associated with data loss events, says the company.
Network Computing
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Blue Coat Triples Cache Performance
A leader in the WAN optimization controller market, Blue Coat Systems is supercharging its CacheFlow 5000 appliance with more than three times greater throughput and cache storage in the same 4U footprint. Targeted at service providers, and now shipping with IPv6 support, the upgrade is intended to address the explosion of rich Web 2.0 content, especially videos and large files that are ‘severely straining service provider networks, making it challenging to both provide a top quality user experience and contain bandwidth costs’, says the company.
Network Computing
Comments Off
Categories: General.
Tufin Looks To Take Firewall Management To The Next Level
Tufin Technologies has long offered tools for managing firewalls and has even provided capabilities to monitor next generation application aware firewalls. But with the new release of the Tufin Security Suite 6.0, the company now makes it possible to directly set and define next generation firewall policies from their management tools.
Network Computing
Comments Off
Categories: General.