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Archives for September, 2011


Twelve Word Tuesday: Firewall Policy Management Tools As Rosetta Stones

by John Pescatore  |  September 27, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

Increasingly distributed/complex NGFW/IPS: netsec policy more dimensions than quantum physics.

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SSL Is About As Useful As Dumbo’s Magic Feather, But Security Blankets Are Hard to Outgrow

by John Pescatore  |  September 22, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

Jim Crow: You wanna make the elephant fly, don’t ya? Well, you gotta use a lot of ‘chology. You know, *psy*-chology. Now here’s what you do. First, you’ll uh… Jim Crow: [all the crows whisper] Jim Crow: And then right after that, you’ll uh… [whispers continue] Jim Crow: [plucks a feather from the youngest crow's [...]

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Twelve Word Tuesday: The Real Issue is Securing Heterogeneity

by John Pescatore  |  September 20, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

iPhones/iPads are a hurricane. Business demanding  heterogeneous devices is climate change.

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Twelve Word Tuesday: Forcing Standard Cloud Processes on Custom Business Problems Leads to New Vulnerabilities

by John Pescatore  |  September 13, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

Square pegs jammed into round holes leads to leaks and exposures galore.

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