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Zenoss Establishes Presence in Systems Management
[2008-04-22] Mark Hinkle, VP of Business & Community Development at Zenoss reached out to bring me up to speed on Zenoss.
Security Engineers Approach Things Differently
[2008-03-26] While in general I disagree with Bruce Schneier more often than I do agree with him, on his "Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional" I have to agree with him. He has hit on one of the more fundamental differences in approach that security engineers have when it comes to solving a problem.
Making Change Work to Your Advantage
[2008-02-26] After a fascinating lunch with Sandy Carter (of which more later), Steve Demuth gave the BRMS track keynote - Make Change Work to Your Advantage. Steve's focus is on the potential competitive advantage of rules.
Get Your Developers on a Platform
[2008-01-22] This past Friday we shut down flyte for an all-day planning session with the entire staff.
Ding Dong The Cron is Dead
[2008-01-08] Actually, cron is not dead on Leopard; you can still use it if you like. For example, at a Terminal shell, type "crontab -e" and then a lower case "i" and then:
IT Visibility - Achieving Comprehensive Network Access Control
[2007-12-18] Stateful Network Detection Technology Enables Successful NAC Deployments Covering the Entire IT Infrastructure...
Microsoft Has an Open Source Strategy
[2007-11-27] Shaun Connolly from JBoss/Red Hat has a nice summary of Microsoft's Open Source Strategy.
Decision Management and Key 2008 Technologies
[2007-11-20] John McCormick had a nice piece over on CIO insight - The 10 Most Important Technology Areas for 2008, a Garnter View.
Halloween IT Horror Stories: Hosting Providers
[2007-10-30] Sometimes you just want to sit down and scream, there you are with your web site gathering an audience like you have never seen, you have arrived, you have a page rank, decent connections via all the social media, you did all the right things, life is good, then your hosting provider for some reason changes something, and there you are, DOA, dead, swimming in the dead pool.
Area 51: Oracle Readies 51 Fixes For Database, Other Products
[2007-10-16] Oracle will ship 51 fixes for its products in their October release of quarterly patches for their products..
Linux to Save Power
[2007-09-25] Via Stephen Shankland at CNet - Very cool news about an effort to run Linux more efficiently on servers, laptops & mobile devices.
Embedded Virtualization
[2007-09-13] VMware and XenSource are moving to hardware near you: Virtualization: A feature of the hardware, not the OS?
Questions for Interviewing Your Next Security Engineer
[2007-08-21] This is going to be completely biased in favor of a security engineer that is not tightly wound around military grade information security for everyone at all times.
Truthy Statements about Access to Source Code
[2007-08-07] It was a long weekend here in the Toronto and I met up with two friends from university. They told me of a "guaranteed" system for winning at Blackjack that they had discovered.
Looking at the State of Web 2.0 Security
[2007-07-31] Some of the commentary back on this blog is that the state of Web 2.0 security is in relatively poor shape, and as we have gone through a lot of the code available from larger companies, everyone approaching web 2.0 seems to have shoved security out the door while they concentrate on making product.
Value Chains, Networks, and Shops
[2007-06-26] Finally, I have in hand a paper with some theoretical clarity regarding value chains, networks, and shops.
How Process Change Will Save Huge Dough
[2007-06-12] Lets assume we are Joe IT guy in the ABC company - an upper middle market company with a few thousand employees, a dozen sites, and all the problems folks like us deal with.
Bandwidth Needs Rise as DDoS Attacks Grow in Size & Complexity
[2007-06-05] Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are an increasing concern of online organizations. In a DDoS attack, compromised PCs controlled by remote attackers, or botnets, inundate a network with the intent to crash its Web or application services.
Network Device Monitoring in Essentials 2007
[2007-05-01] The whole point of System Center Essentails 2007 (aka SCE) is delivery of the base elements of operations and systems management in a single console It is important to remember, the features you know from big brother Ops Mgr 2007 are still lurking there in the Authoring space, (providing some potential consulting opportunities in some mid-market scenarios to be sure).
Security, HR and Corporate Secrets
[2007-04-10] Security and HR are more involved in keeping corporate secrets in the world of Wiki's, blogs, YouTube, and MySpace. Computer World is running an interesting piece about corporate data leakage and unregulated corporate communications.
Information Security as an Open and Closed System
[2007-04-03] The world of information security is both an open and a closed system in light of the way that we share data.
Tech Upswing Leading to Decrease in Instructors?
[2007-03-13] I have been visiting colleges in the local Seattle area, and many of them desperately need adjunct faculty.
App and Service Portfolio Management
[2007-02-26] A longstanding debate in IT service management is the relationship between Service and Application.
Information Security Management Still on Top of the List
[2007-02-13] Top projects of 2007 According to the AICPA, most of them are security, and the number one project is going to be getting a handle on all the information that is generated by people, systems, and procedures, and then making sense out of all of it.
Security Event Manager Review
[2007-01-29] Over the last few months I have been fortunate to beta test, or test a number of information security tools to see how well they would work in a high volume environment.
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