by Greg Young | October 20, 2009 | Comments Off
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 [...]
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by Greg Young | October 15, 2009 | 4 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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by Greg Young | October 6, 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 [...]
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