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Annual Strategic Security Survey

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From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  30 Mar 2009

Malware Controlling Hardware Is Not Necessary

The last two weeks have brought us two different attack vectors affecting servers and PCs alike. First Invisible Things Labs Joanna Rutkowska and Rafal Wojtczuk presented the details of an attack on Intel's System Management Module which lets the ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  25 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Intel

We Want You For Application Delivery

Network connections have been getting faster over time and correspondingly, applications have been keeping pace by getting fatter. Add in the changes in how applications are delivered as web applications, hosted applications, and virtual desktops, ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  24 Mar 2009

Using DNS To Distribute Trust

Topics:   Analytics : Security Posted by Mike Fratto, Mar 18, 2009 10:43 AM DNSSEC is way too much of a pain to deploy today. We have to do a lot -- across everyone you named [TLD owners, registrars, hosting providers, etc] -- to make DNSSEC as easy ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Drawing A Line On Web Application Security

Web application security is of particular importance because so much of our digital life is spent interacting with web applications. Lori MacVittie, Technical Marketing Manager with F5, and former Network Computing Senior Technology Editor, have spent ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  11 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Roger Smith

Virtualizing Switch Management

Topics:   Analytics Posted by Mike Fratto, Mar 4, 2009 01:32 PM During the briefing I took, Junipers executives were going on about the mega data centers with more servers and switches than there are atoms in the universe (OK, I'm exaggerating ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  4 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Google Inc.

DNSSEC: Forgetting The User, Again.

A lot of very smart people are working very hard to make the Internet trustworthy. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has launched a beta Interim Trust Anchor Repository so top level domain owners can publish DNSSEC material while ICANN works ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  24 Feb 2009

ROI Is Not A Good Justification For Security

Its no secret that the business office uses financial models to approve and disapprove purchases. Getting proposals approved on business merit is often mis-understood by many IT and security practitioners who see the need for a technology, but cant ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  18 Feb 2009

My Computer, A La Carte

OS installs have gotten easier over the years, whether it's a Linux distribution, Mac OS X, or Windows. Fewer choices to make and fewer technical decisions that need to be pondered. But today, I found the easiest of them all, Slax 6 Build a ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  12 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Red Hat, Inc.

Bandwidth Management Coming To You

Cox Communications recently announced a new bandwidth management program, while Google and partners are releasing a tool to detect throttling. The traffic battles are heating up, but the deck is stacked against users since we use the pipes, not manage ...

From MIKE FRATTO, Information Week,  29 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

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