Some unhappy bloggers ended up on the Wall of Shame at a recent security/hackers conference and (I summarize…) cried foul because it wasn’t pre-advertised that the network would be hostile. There is a good post on the hub-bub here.
The yin of rubbing elbows with vulnerability researchers and semi-bad guys who reveal the most recent [...]
Entries from October 2009
Unsafe Networks and Security Conferences
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments
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Defining The Next Generation Firewall Research Note: The Liner Notes
October 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
John Pescatore and I published today “Defining The Next Generation Firewall” (NGFW). The note ‘liner notes’ may help provide some context. Gartner has been talking about Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) for a while – in 2004 we had a note titled “Next generation Firewalls Include Intrusion Prevention”.
We have been increasing the weighting for NGFW [...]
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Private Clouds and Phishy Clouds
October 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Two items this week bring into focus the security issues around cloud computing.
According to an article on DISA’s RACE (Rapid Access Computing Environment), the comment is made that RACE is more secure and stable than the Google cloud. Arguments aside about the definition of clouds and whether private clouds are really clouds, I find this [...]
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